The State Council’s Several Policies on Further Encouraging the Development of Software and Integrated Circuit Industries, is a continuation and substitution of the previous Document 18.
In terms of policy implementation, it states that industry associations should give full play to their advantages in resources, promote the software IP protection and resist all IPR violations.
Document 4, also known as the “New Document 18”, continues and supersedes a Basket of Measures to Boost the Software and IC Industry,which was issued in 2000 and expired last year.