[photopress:IT_Isaac_Mao_1.jpg,full,alignright]Shanghai Municipal Information Commission said that Shanghai has gradually developed a highly internationalized software industry. Its overall revenue expected to surge 30%, close to RMB80 billion in 2007.
In the first half of this year, revenue reached RMB38.5 billion, mainly from exports and core software product development. A total of 1,200 companies have obtained software certification in Shanghai, and over ten of them are listed inside or outside mainland markets.
According to the Commission, Shanghai’s firms are becoming very competitive in several sectors such as operating system and midware, previously dominated by overseas competitors. Our illustration shows Isaac Mao, a Shanghai-based software engineer for U.S. chip maker Intel.
Source: China Knowledge