In recent years, under the wave of informationization such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data, China's IT industry has developed rapidly, and the market scale of software business has reached 5.5 trillion in 20 17 years, of which information technology service revenue accounts for the highest proportion, reaching 53.3%. At the same time, the number of employees in the software industry has increased steadily, and the number of employees in the whole industry is close to 6 million. Industry profits are growing faster than income.

The data shows that in 20 17, the total profit of the software industry was 702 billion yuan, an increase of 15.8% over the previous year, an increase of 2. 1 percentage point over 20 16, and a higher income growth rate of 1.9 percentage point. On a quarterly basis, the growth rate of total profit from the first quarter to the fourth quarter was 9.6%, 14.2%, 15.6% and 210.2%, respectively, showing a gradual upward trend. It can be seen that there is still a large market space in the informatization process in China.

Market size and growth rate of software industry

Source: Organized by Prospective Industry Research Institute.

With the great attention and strong support of the state, the promotion policies of related industries in the software industry are constantly refined, the financial support is constantly increased, and the measures for intellectual property protection are gradually strengthened. The strategic position of the software industry in the national economy is constantly improved, and the industrial scale will continue to expand. The analysis report of Foresight Industry Research Institute's China Software Industry Market Foresight and Investment Strategic Planning predicts that by 2023, the software industry market scale will exceed 9 trillion yuan.

20 18-2023 China software industry market scale forecast (trillion yuan)

Source: Organized by Prospective Industry Research Institute.

China is currently undergoing economic transformation and industrial upgrading, and it is the direction of all industries to provide production and service modes with independent intellectual property rights and high added value. Among them, information technology industry is the pillar and forerunner of economic transformation and industrial upgrading. The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further put forward that "we should stick to the road of new industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization with China characteristics, promote the deep integration of informationization and industrialization, the benign interaction between industrialization and urbanization, the coordinated development of urbanization and agricultural modernization, and promote the synchronous development of industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization", in which the information technology industry is the core of the "integration of industrialization and industrialization" and the key link to realize the new industrialization road.

Software industry is the core component of information technology industry. With the deepening of economic transformation, industrial upgrading and "integration of the two industries", the information demand of traditional industries will be constantly stimulated, bringing huge market opportunities. At the same time, with the rising cost of human resources in the future and the double pressure of improving independent core competitiveness, the value of IT application software and specialized services will become more prominent, opportunities and challenges coexist in the software industry, and the whole industry shows an accelerated development trend.