On August 31, 2018, the ancient capital Nanjing ushered in the annual industry event – China (Nanjing) International Software Products & Information Services Expo (CIS), which has been the 14th session.
Since the creation of the software city in 2005, Nanjing software and information service industry has experienced 13 years’ development and has become one of Nanjing’s first advantageous industries and important development strategies. It has also become an important support for Nanjing to build a global innovative city. In 2010, Nanjing was recognized as the first “Chinese Software City” by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Nowadays, CIS has grown into one of the largest, most internationalized and most influential software and information service exhibitions in China. It has formed the development pattern with the focus of China (Nanjing) Software Valley, Nanjing Software Park and Jiangsu Software Park, supported by provincial software parks such as Xuzhuang Software Park and provincial Internet industry park.
Until 2017, Nanjing has 4,500 software companies, introduced 30 companies of Fortune 500 and 37 of Chinese Top 100 companies. In 2017, the software revenue has reached 392.6 billion yuan, accounting for 44% in Jiangsu Province. The software industry continues to be among the best in domestic cities. In the first half of this year, China (Nanjing) Software Valley, Nanjing Software Park, Jiangsu Software Park realized the software business income of 137.8 billion yuan, 12 million new soft-related employees, new soft industry building area of 470,000 square meters.
The theme of this year’s Soft Expo is “Digital World, Smart Future”, which lasts for 4 days. The scale of the exhibition is 110,000 square meters. It focuses on the software development, investment environment, intellectual property protection environment and innovation of Jiangsu Province and Nanjing software industries. It also showed the newest technologies, products and services of the well-known companies. Compared with previous sessions, this year’s CIS will specially add innovative city area, AI area, industrial internet area, safe and reliable software area, and smart health area, fully demonstrating the latest integrated technologies, products and application, such as Internet, AI, big data, manufacturing, modern service industry, agriculture, big health industry and other new industries. It is showing outstanding cases in the fields of digital economy and information consumption, like 5G, Internet of Things, integrated circuits.
Based on the development foundation and advantages of the software and information service industry, Nanjing is focusing on promoting the deep integration of the Internet, big data, AI and the real economy, adhering to the high-end, clustering and integration development orientation. Nanjing will provide industrial support and development momentum for being an innovative city with global influence.
Source: China (Nanjing) International Software Products & Information Services Expo (CIS)
