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We all know that Chinese market is huge, but what about selling software on their market?
What about piracy there, is anyone purchase software products legally in China?

Thanks

Are you currently not selling to China? Have you disabled China in your payment processor?

I haven't and I'm selling to China baby!  Only they won't buy it ...

No, paying from China is possible, of course, like from any other country.

My question was - does Chinese people purchase software or they download it cracked?
Cause we wanted to support Chinese lang in all apps, to start some promotional activities there etc.

The only sales I've made in China have been to the offices of western companies. It's pretty much the same in the rest of Asia and Eastern Europe.

This topic was covered fairly well in in this thread. Take particular note of Felipe's responses:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.822899.11

One potential Chinese reseller suggested that I should cut my software price by 3 to sell my software in China.

But even without droping the prices I've made a few sales there.

Felipe Albertao (who contributed to that thread) was also kind enough to write this guest post on my blog:
http://successfulsoftware.net/2010/08/12/selling-your-software-in-china/

That is a great article by Felipe.  Thanks for reminding me of it Andy!

Thanks very much for detailed help. I've read all articles and it helped a lot.