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Such
a plan could add to the challenges of foreign technology firms
doing business in the world's second-largest economy, by
prompting government agencies and companies to opt for
domestically-made software.
The plan will focus on improving security for software used by
government departments, state-owned enterprises and financial
institutions, the paper quoted Chen Wei, the director of the
ministry's software bureau, as saying on Wednesday.
Chen did not provide details of the plan, it added.
Chen could not immediately be reached for comment.
Beijing has recently bolstered legal protection of its
information technology, after former National Security Agency
contractor Edward Snowden disclosed that U.S. spy agencies
planted code in American tech exports to snoop on overseas
targets.
China's draft national security law posted online this month
called for cyberspace "sovereignty" and was reviewed to include
powers dealing with "harmful moral standards".
In February, Reuters reported China had dropped some of the
world's leading technology brands from its approved state
purchase list, while approving thousands more locally made
products, in what some said was a response to revelations of
widespread Western cybersurveillance.
China's bank regulator temporarily suspended bank-technology
guidelines in April that would have effectively replaced foreign
tech products with domestic alternatives, following feedback
from banks and an outcry from foreign governments and business.
(Reporting by Sue-Lin Wong; Editing by Kazunori Takada and
Clarence Fernandez)
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