In the first half of this year, under the correct leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and with the joint efforts of colleagues in the software industry, the software industry in China still maintained a sustained and stable development momentum. As the core of information industry, software industry is a highly knowledge-intensive industry, which is different from ordinary manufacturing and service industries. In terms of investment, business activities, personnel training, software export, etc., it has brought a certain impact to software enterprises and affected the normal production and business activities of enterprises to a certain extent. From another point of view, SARS has also triggered new market demand, such as medical insurance system, video conference system, distance education system, prevention and control system and other fields, which put forward new and higher requirements for the variety, quality and safety of software products, and also provided opportunities for the adjustment and development of China's software industry structure. With the joint efforts of the whole industry, the sales revenue of the whole industry in the first half of this year was 84.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 59.8%. Among them, the sales of software products was 46.59 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 69.4%; The sales of software services was 38 1. 1 billion yuan, up 49.5% year-on-year; Software exports reached US$ 804 million, a year-on-year increase of 33.3%. Affected by the SARS epidemic from April to June this year, the year-on-year growth rate slowed down in the first half of this year, and it is expected that the output value of the software industry will increase substantially in the second half of this year. (III) Development Goal In order to further improve the overall level and international competitiveness of China's software industry, the state has set a development goal by 2005 in the Action Plan for Revitalizing the Software Industry: the software market sales will reach 250 billion yuan; The domestic market share of domestic software and services has reached 60%; Software exports reached $5 billion; Cultivate a number of internationally competitive software products and form a number of software backbone enterprises with sales exceeding 5 billion yuan; There are 800,000 software professionals. Judging from the practice in 2002 and the development in the first half of 2003, this goal should be overfulfilled. Problems in the software industry in 2002 (I) Main problems reflected by software enterprises 1. The market sales of large enterprises have increased, and profits have generally declined (this trend can be clearly seen from the data of some listed companies published by the CSRC). The main reason is that the bosses of these large enterprises generally believe that it is caused by rising costs. 2. In 2002, the competition in the domestic market intensified, mainly as follows: ① Not only large foreign companies entered the China market, but also small and medium-sized enterprises in the world began to enter the China market. In the past, European, American and Japanese enterprises entered the China market, but now large and medium-sized Indian enterprises have also entered the China market (such as Indian Tata Group, NIIT and QAI settled in China, etc.). In 2002, the competition in the domestic market was obviously intensified. (2) The competition for talents is intensified, especially for high-end talents. In 2002, the cost of high-end talents increased further, and the phenomenon of high-end talents flowing increased day by day. 3. The market environment tends to deteriorate, mainly as follows: ① The market competition behavior is not standardized, especially for foreign customized software. For example, in the western and southwestern regions, a foreign order promises 6000 ~ 7000 dollars. (2) Vicious competition, the trend of price reduction is obvious. ③ Domestic large and medium-sized enterprises generally reported that the recovery of funds was slow in 2002, and the phenomenon of accounts receivable default began to appear (which can be reflected from the data published by listed companies). (2) The development trend of software industry in 2002 ~ 2003 is 1. Software (products) and information service industry are originally an industry, but in such industries, the trend of service is more obvious, and the proportion of service in the industry is getting higher and higher; Services include products and product value-added services, products and upgrading services, online value-added services, consulting and training (business training, product training) services, system solutions and system integration services, as well as product testing, evaluation and maintenance services. In the next three to five years, the proportion of single product provision in the industry will fall below 20%; 2. The software on wireless mobile platform (mobile system software, mobile middleware, mobile database) has attracted the attention of enterprises, and it is also a field with large market and high profit; 3. Embedded software (mobile phones, mobile handheld devices, information appliances, etc.). ) has aroused widespread concern of software developers, and many software companies have turned to this field; 4. Software enterprises engaged in ERP began to change from hype to pragmatism, such as requiring the formulation of ERP standards and market norms, and software enterprises actively and pragmatically participated in the field of industrial informatization; 5. The demand for open source code has become the same voice, Linux enterprises have turned from hype to pragmatism, and commercialization has become a problem that Linux manufacturers must consider; 6. Software export and international cooperation are important breakthroughs in the development of China's software industry. Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Dalian are all actively striving for Japanese cooperation and software customization, and the United States and Europe have also begun to shift their software processing to China. The reasons are as follows: ① European and American economies are in recession; ② High local cost; (3) In the past, most orders flowed to India, and the United States and Europe found that India was subcontracted to China. Due to the decrease of political discrimination against China after China's entry into WTO, the software outsourcing business in Europe will directly turn to China in the future. Demand Analysis of Software Talents As one of the high-tech industries, the development of software industry largely depends on the quality and structure of talents. The competition in the software industry is basically the competition for talents. Therefore, continuously improving the quality of all kinds of software talents and perfecting the rational structure and supply system of talents will be the basis for the strong development of China software industry in the future. In 2002, influenced by the slow demand for talents in the global IT industry and China's efforts to train software talents, the shortage of software talents in China was alleviated. With the enrollment of 35 model software colleges and the increase of social force-run training institutions, the supply of software talents in China has increased, which has improved the structure of software talents in China to some extent. On the whole, however, the situation of software talents in China in 2002 did not get rid of the long-standing situation of "big gap, unbalanced structure and strong demand", and talent shortage and unreasonable structure coexisted. Specifically, China's software talent structure is olive-shaped, that is, there is a serious shortage of high-end software talents, including system analysts and project technical supervisors, low-end talents such as software coding programmers, and there is a surplus of middle (end) talents. Recently, the Ministry of Personnel announced the main situation of job-seeking majors in China's talent market in 2003, including 654.38+048,000 computer majors and 396,000 job seekers, which also showed a trend of oversupply and a surplus of middle-end talents. (1) Students in National Colleges and Universities By the end of 2002, there were 629 undergraduate colleges and 767 junior colleges in China. There are 982 universities specializing in computer science and technology, computer software and software engineering in China, including 484 undergraduate courses and 498 junior colleges. In 2002, the total number of students in colleges and universities was 9,033,600 (6,575,400 undergraduates, 65,438 junior college students+0,934,654,380 students), including 765,438 students majoring in computer and software. In addition, there are 482,600 students in software-related majors (information and computing science, geographic information system, electronic information science and technology, emerging electronic information science and technology, automation, electronic information engineering, network engineering, information countermeasure technology and information security). (2) The situation of computer and software graduates in national universities in 2002. In 2002, the number of college graduates majoring in computer and software in China was 892 14, including 336 doctors, 34,965,438 masters, 37,965,438 undergraduates and 47,693 specialists. (III) Students majoring in software in national universities In 2002, there were 482,600 students majoring in software in national universities, including 48 165 graduates in 2002, including 33,048 undergraduate graduates and 565,438 junior college graduates. (IV) Training of Software Talents in Model Software Colleges As of June 2002, 35 model software colleges have enrolled 8,073 undergraduates, 5,670 engineering masters and 58 graduate students115000, with an annual enrollment of more than15000. (V) Summary of National Software-related Graduates in 2002 According to the information provided by the Ministry of Education, we will summarize the graduates of software-related majors in ordinary universities and adult colleges in 2002. Thank you for your support!