The China Copyright Protection Center released "The Twelfth Five-year" China Software Copyright Registration Analysis Report. According to the report, a total number of 924,000 software copyrights have been registered with an average annual increase of 28.96%, showing the rapid increase of software registrations in China. In 2011, the registrations broke the number 100,000, in 2014 it broke 200,000 while in 2015 it is nearly 300,000.

The copyright registration in hot industrial areas like Internet of things (IoT), APP and game software increased dramatically. For the APP software, the registration in 2015 reached 57,417, up 86.77% from 2014, up 800% from 2012. Source:http://www.iprchn.com/Index_NewsContent.aspx?newsId=93779 http://www.askci.com/news/chanye/20160427/828242764.shtml

Figure: China Copyright registration for software soars in 2015
Figure: China Copyright registration for software soars in 2015