It Development Of China

On March 14, 2006, the Fourth Plenary Session of China's Tenth National People's Congress formally ratified the country's Eleventh Five-Year Plan, for the period 2006 to 2010. Since 1953, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has implemented a series of Five-Year Plans that established the blueprint and targets for national economic development. In country where the state continues to exert powerful control over much of the economy, the Five-Year Plans are key indicators of the directions and changes in development philosophy. China's "11th Five-Year Plan" has, prior to and since its formal approval, been described as "revolutionary," "a watershed," and "of turning point significance".

In the science and technology aspect, "11th Five-Year Plan" stressed the need to actively develop integrated circuits, software, and new technology components. To lead software industry development, the Ministry of Information Industry conducts a series of in-depth research and extensive feasibility studies on the basis of the preparation and enactment of the software industry in the next few years. China's scientific and technological development will focus on the raising of independent innovation capability in five aspects, focusing on obtaining independent intellectual property.

These five aspects include:

1. basing the major demands of the national economy, strengthen the key technological innovation in such areas as energy, resources and environment and raise the breakthrough capability in solving the bottleneck restraints;

2. focusing on obtaining the independent intellectual property, strengthen the technological innovation of the industries and saliently raise the core competitive edges of agriculture, industry, service industry and other key industries;

3. strengthen the comprehensive integration of multi-technologies, raise the scientific and technological service capabilities in such social welfare areas as health population, public security, urbanization and city development;

4. adapt to the new requirements for modernization of national defense and the response to non-traditional security and raise the safeguarding capability of national defense;

5. future-oriented arrangement of basic research and front line technical research and raise the capability for scientific and technological sustainable innovation.

Besides, the "11th Five-Year Plan" pointed out that in the upcoming five years, China's scientific and technological work will be confronted with 8 specific tasks:

1. targeting at the strategic objective, concentrate the efforts in implementing the major special projects defined by the Outline of the 11th Five-Year Plan;

2. basing urgent demands, strengthen the efforts in the major technological breakthroughs in the energy, resources, environment, agriculture, information, health and other areas;

3. getting hold of future development, conduct future-oriented arrangement for the front line technological and basic research;

4. enhance the sharing mechanism and construction of a scientific and technological infrastructure and a factor platform;

5. implement the talent strategy and enhancing the building of scientific and technological contingents;

6. create a favorable environment and strengthen the popularization of science and innovation of cultural construction;

7. projecting corporate subjects, push in all-round manner the building of an innovation system with the Chinese characteristics and enhance scientific and technological innovation;

8. safeguard the security of national defense.

The related responsible people of the Ministry of Science and Technology pointed out that as a programmatic document guiding China's scientific and technological development in the upcoming five years, the core of the plan is to arrange and implement the various key tasks defined by the "Outline of the Plan for the Long and Medium-Term Scientific and Technological Development (2006-2020)."

Software industry has become the focus of international competition. To enhance the competitiveness of China's software industry, a strategic planning on development and industrialization is significantly important. Under economic globalization, information technology becomes popular. The fast structural adjustment and change in the global software industry has created a good opportunities to China.

Now, China's software industry is developing rapidly, the scale of the industry technical standards, environment and large software enterprises have made great progress in the information industry. They are providing great support to national economy development. In "10th Five-Year Plan" period, the software sales revenue reached 390 billion Yuan with an average annual growth rate of 45.7 percent. Software export revenue was 3.59 billion US dollars which is nearly nine times increase. There ware more than 900,000 employees in software industry.

With the effort in the past ten years, the ability of independent innovation has improved. There are many breakthroughs in some key technologies such as Linux operating system, database, middleware, embedded software, and information security software and office suite. They have been widely applied in different aspects. Size of the domestic software enterprises has grown constantly. At the end of 2005, more than 237 companies have reached CMM3. These companies have gradually gained the competitive power to compete with foreign software companies.

Global software market is expected to maintain an annual growth rate of around 12%. By 2010, global software market will reach 1.48 trillion US dollars. As the same time, software services market will reach 1.1 trillion US dollars. This provides very good opportunity to China's software services industry in the coming few years. Moreover, next-generation Internet, next-generation mobile communications technology and embedded software will have a relatively faster growth in the period. These also stimulate the growth of China's information and technology industry.

In the aspect of software and information technology industry,"11th Five-Year Plan" has set development targets at market development, restructuring, technological innovation and talents breeding. The targets are set to several indicators: growth rate, sales and export volume.

At the period of "11th Five-Year Plan", the sales growth rate of software