This year we will make sure all Chinese PC makers install licensed software prior to sale.

To curb the use of pirated common software, we have urged the computer producers to load authorized software before they are sold on the Chinese market.

The issues Secretary Gutierrez is concerned with are issues we also are concerned with. This year, we will work with the ministries of Information, Industry and Commerce to increase the usage of legal software among Chinese enterprises.

Chinese PC makers signed agreements with Microsoft to get a much better price to install Windows as part of an anti-piracy campaign.

Of course we need to speed up the process (of intellectual property rights compliance) but we can't expect the problem to go away overnight.

For a developing nation like China, protecting intellectual property rights is a process ... We hope to shorten this process as much as possible, but it's difficult to eliminate it overnight.