Jin Daoqiang, deputy mayor of Nanjing, announced Monday that after approval by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the General Administration of Press and Publication, the first China (Nanjing) International Software Product Exposition will be held this September 10 to 12 in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. It shows that Nanjing is taking another major step toward becoming "China's famous software city".

Nanjing is China's well-known educational city, with a strong trend in developing its software industry. Last year, the city's software industry scale has broken through the 10 billion Yuan (US$1.23 billion) mark, continuing for a fifth year in a row its 50% plus annual growth trend, occupying the top position amongst all of China's provincial capital cities, taking up half of the software pie of Jiangsu province.

Sources revealed that the Nanjing municipal government has set up the development target of "building important software base in China and China's famous software city" and has implemented numerous measures to accelerate the development of the software industry. A cluster of relatively large and scaled up software enterprises with expansion potential has surfaced in the city.

Mayor Jin said that this upcoming "Software Exposition" will be held at the same time as the fifteenth China Nanjing Golden Autumn Economic and Trade Fair with a provocative software theme. The total footage of the Exposition will be around 15,000 square meters with planned exhibition booths numbering 800 and participation from delegations of the United States, Britain, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Ireland and Taiwan. The exposition will encompass: software and integrate circuit products, digital entertainment products, IT technology products. At the same time there will be six major exhibition clusters: system and security software, auto-run application software, enterprise information software and electronic government software, telecommunication and financial and securities software, animation, game software, education and sports software. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people will visit the Exposition.

(chinanews July 25, 2005)