@ioi: There aren't really rich areas in China. Even in Shanghai (the richest China's city) GDP per capita is at 7.2k per year (2006). It's more than 2k but still far away from developed countries.
There are acutally more than 1.3 billion people in China but 10% per cent of them aren't as rich as Japanese (at least in nominal term). If this was true China's GDP would be bigger than Japanese (10 per cent of China's population is 130 mln people (a little more than whole Japan) so they can't be as rich as Japanese when Japan's GDP>China'S GDP).
I also think that those richer grups will just go and buy pirated soft becouse it will be a common practice in next 10 years and Chinese people won't see anything bad about it.
However it's true that 1.3 billion of people is a lot and even if China's market was developed at 10% of what it is in Japan China would have a big part of world's market share (around 15%).
PS. I just checked IMF GDP list and China's is at 2.46k per capita (2007 estimate). I'm sure it was below 2k in previous years so the big jump is either to the revision or falling dollar price (or both).
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