Nanjing-style Development
Software industry
By Lan Xuan
Updated: 2009-11-30 15:27
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Between the end of last year and the first half of this year, Nanjing sought to establish itself as the primary software center in Jiangsu.
The local government has strived to establish a national Software Industry Park and has continuously promoted the development of its five software industry centers within the city - the Xuanwu, Gulou, Yuhua, Jiangning and Pukou districts.
Statistics showed that, in the first half of this year, revenues from Nanjing's software industry reached 28.339 billion yuan, a 48.2 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
In 2000, there were around 200 software companies choosing to invest in Nanjing, generating a combined annual sales revenue of 1.8 billion yuan. The situation in 2008 is very different. Backed by a far stronger team of software developers looking to invest in the city, the sales revenue of Nanjing's software industry has now reached 47.1 billion yuan, a 30 percent year-on-year increase.
Recently, six of the Nanjing-based software developers were honored as being among the top 100 Chinese companies in the sector.
In light of this, the Nanjing Software Industry Park has attracted a group of the world's leading software giants, including Microsoft, Lucent, Motorola, Siemens and Epson.
Recent policy initiatives have also seen the local government placing greater emphasis on nurturing human resources in a bid to better support the fast-growing software industry.
Over the coming three years, Nanjing will implement a "Focus" strategy - aimed at attracting large-scale software businesses to the city in order to maintain the rapid development of its software operation.
As part of this strategy, the local government will nominate a number of candidate companies for the implementation of a special incentive package as a way of fuelling their rapid expansion.
(China Daily 11/30/2009 page13)
