Software Export up 55% in Jan-April Period
May 30th, 2008
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Thursday that due to technological innovation, China’s software exports surged in the first four months of this year.
In the January-April period, exports totaled $3.27 billion, up 54.9% year-on-year. And the software sector’s revenue was 193.55 billion yuan, registering an increase of 31.2%.
In 2001, China’s software exports were worth $720 million and the figure rose to $10.24 billion in the year 2007. And the sector’s income was 583.4 billion yuan in 2007, up 630% from 2001, according to the Ministry.
Last year, Chinese software accounted for 8.7% of the global industry, up from 1.5% in 2001.
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