To build "China Silicon Valley" is a strategic goal
set to boost Shanghai's integrated circuit industry during the
10th Five-year Plan period (2001-2005).
In the coming five
years, Shanghai will inject a total of 450bn yuan into its
industry, including 150bn yuan into IT industrial undertaking,
and an investment amount of 70-75bn yuan for integrated circuit
industry, as is known from a Symposium on Integrated Circuit
Industry Development held Wednesday in Shanghai.
Shanghai's IT industry
is expected to create an output value of over 400bn yuan by
2005, about 25% of the municipal total, to show an annual
average growth of 30%. With an overall technological level
measuring up to international standards and a base of more
than ten production lines built, it will by its chips production
and software design hold lead in domestic markets.
To raise the quality
and overall competitiveness of Shanghai's IT industry, efforts
are being made to follow closely international trend and,
according to market demands, focus on the seven categories
of products as integrated circuit, telecom, computer and Internet,
electronic vacuum devices, new electronic component, video
and audio, and software. In the long run, IT industry will
help Shanghai rise as the biggest center going in for integrated
circuit designing, production, sealing and packaging, to be
run with a big array of components and the largest amount
of products exported.
A series of strong
measures have been adopted to boost the Shanghai's IT industry.
First, specialized integrated circuit designing and production
is to be developed. Over 100 large designing corporate establishments
will be built according to advanced standards by 2005. Second,
40% of chips will be self-reliantly produced to satisfy the
country's demand for national security, economic construction
and social stability. Third, a rational industrial structure
is to be developed. The priority will be placed on expansions
of existing industrial parks and construction of a large production
base of integrated circuit concentrating on Zhangjiang Hi-tech
Park. Along with a sealing and packaging base in Jinqiao,
Songjian Export Processing Zone and Nanhui IT Developing Zone,
a designing base will also be built centering on Zhangjiang
and Caohejing Hi-tech Parks.
(People's Daily
09/28/2000)
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