Shenzhen will build itself into a global leader in embedded software development, enhance its advantageous position in integrated circuit design and cultivate a cluster of emerging industries in the coming two years.
To forge its competitive edge in software industry, the city will optimize its environment for software research and development, improve its policies and integrate its resources.
The measures are part of the city s effort to build itself into China s well-known software city, according a memorandum singed between the Shenzhen Municipal Government and the Ministry of Industry and Information in Beijing on Monday, a milestone for city s software industry which marks the initiation of the ministry s China s Stella Software City program.
The ministry chose Guangzhou and Shenzhen to pilot this program in Guangdong to turn the two cities into prestigious software twin cities, which will complement their respective advantages and share mutual benefits.
Shenzhen has become China s most important research and export base for software products and services in the past decade. The city had formed service systems for software development. The revenue of software industry has reached 150 billion yuan (US$23 billion) in 2010, accounting for 11.3 percent of the country s total. The city registered patents of more than 10,000 software products between 2000-2009 and it had more than 20 laboratories and technology service platforms relating to software research and development. The service platforms include a national supercomputing center and a national software and information outsourcing service platform. Huawei, ZTE and Tencent are among the world s leading software companies.
Shenzhen has great potentials and has witnessed a fast growth in Internet, e-commerce, cloud computing, animation and Internet of Things.
