China's software industry reported a revenue of 343.89 billion
yuan (US$45.73 billion) for the first eight months of this year, up
22.9 percent year-on-year, according to the latest statistics from
the Ministry of Information Industry.
Of the total revenue, software products accounted for 121.25
billion yuan, up 24.1 percent; system integration made up 84.05
billion yuan, up 18.5 percent; software technological services was
55.81 billion yuan, up 23.9 percent; embedded system software was
74.26 billion yuan, up 24.5 percent; and IC design collected 8.52
billion yuan, up 27.6 percent.
A spokesman of the ministry said this year a series of policies
would be promulgated to further encourage the development of
software and integrated circuits. Efforts will also be made to
foster and regulate domestic software market, and support products
with self-owned intellectual property rights through government
purchasing.
He said that currently China's software industry lags far behind
the international advanced level, with less than six percent of the
global software market share, and it even can not match the
development of hardware manufacturing in the country.
(Xinhua News Agency October 6, 2007)
