What are the 4 Main areas of the IT Industry in China?
1. Telecom - this is a “restricted” industry. Foreign participation is only allowed through Joint Ventures with dominant Chinese players—often large SOEs or private companies that have strong ties with the government.
2. Hardware - "Non-restricted" Industry. The hardware market has small margins and constant pressure on prices and profits.
3. Software
4. IT services
What are the main IT Provinces of China?
Guangdong
Important manufacturing center of electronic and information products, with industry giants Huawei and Foxcom.
Jiangsu
Focus on ICT as one of its ICT industry. The growth of the IT industry in the Jiangsu province has been remarkable. The capital of Nanjing is one of the top destinations for software development and service outsourcing in China. Since Nanjing is home to 3 academic centers in China, it enjoys the benefits of a huge young and educated workforce.
Shanghai
ICT development zones and industry parks are situated in Pudong District and Yangpu District. Shanghai Cloud Computing Industry Base—established in Shanghai Shibei HighTech Park in Zhabei District—will build the first domestic commercial public platform of service based on cloud computing.
Shandong
China Ministry of Industry and Information has honored Capital Jinan as “China’s second Software City” after Nanjing in 2011. Outsourcing, software development, and cloud computing—these are Jinan’s strong ICT subsectors.
One of Jinan’s advantages is its pool of talents build around 50,000 graduates from its universities and institutes in the field of software development, computer technology, and finance.
Compared to Beijing and Shanghai, costs are a third lower in Shandong. Also, employee loyalty in Shandong is less than 5%, which is lowest in China, compared to 25% nationwide.
Zhejiang
Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, has key drivers of economic growth in creative industry, e-commerce, software, IT services and Internet of Things (“IOT”) industry. Serving as the “Capital of e-Commerce” in China, Zhejiang accounts for more than half of the total revenue for e-commerce services in the country. For instance, Chinese online shopping giant Taobao has processed RMB 20.83 billion of payment in 2009, making it a giant of retail platform in Asia.
Which are the large Software Companies in China?
Baidu
Web services company headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the largest Internet companies in the world.
Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese search engine for websites, audio files and images.
Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike (an online, collaboratively built encyclopedia) and a searchable, keyword-based discussion forum. Baidu was established in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu. Both of the co-founders are Chinese nationals who studied and worked overseas before returning to China. In December 2016, Baidu ranked 4th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings.
Borqs
Borqs is an Android software firm headquartered in Beijing. Borqs was founded in September 2007 and has offices in China, India, and the US. In 2011, Borqs was one of six mobile technology companies to receive a piece of $26 million in funding from Intel. Borqs offers Android customization and cloud software for operators and Android commercialization services.
CDC Games
CDC Games is a publisher and operator of online games and MMORPGs in China. Its headquarters are located in Shanghai, China. It is a subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed CDC Corporation. It was launched on June 9, 2006.
CDC Games is a market leader in online and mobile games in China with more than 160 million registered users.
Cheetah Mobile
Cheetah Mobile Inc (猎豹移动公司) is a Chinese mobile Internet company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is best known as the developer of the Battery Doctor, Clean Master, CM Applock, CM Browser, CM Security and more. It has more than 568 million monthly active users as of November 2015.
Dalian Hi-Think Computer
Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology Corporation (Chinese: 大连华信计算机科技股份有限公司), often called DHC is a provider of software development, industrial solutions and IT services headquartered in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China.
It was established in 1996 as an spin-out of Dalian Information Center and its capital amounts to 150,000,000 CNY. NEC, NTT Data, Hitachi Software Engineering, NEC Soft, NS Solutions, and Microsoft have invested in DHC.
Dalian Software Park
Dalian Software Park (simplified Chinese: 大连软件园; traditional Chinese: 大連軟件園; pinyin: Dàlián ruǎnjiàn yuán), also called DLSP, is an industrial zone, created in 1998 in the western suburbs of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China, where many of the world's large and medium-sized IT-related companies have set up shop to do software development and information services.
It is part of Dalian Hi-Tech Zone in the broader sense. While American and European companies typically have gone to Bangalore and other cities in India because of the English language capability, Japanese companies have gone to Dalian and other cities in China due to the Japanese language capability.
GstarCAD
GstarCAD is a CAD (Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting) software platform, using the Open Design Alliance DWG libraries to read and write the DWG file format made popular by the AutoCAD CAD package.
GstarCAD is a capable alternative to other well-known CAD packages on the market, and provides OpenDWG file compatibility, as well as an interface which is very similar to that of AutoCAD.
HiSoft
HiSoft Technology International Limited was a multinational information technology and business process outsourcing company headquartered in Dalian, China.
Founded in 1996, HiSoft was listed on the NASDAQ public exchange in 2010. In November 2012, the company merged with China-based IT outsourcing industry peer VanceInfo to form Pactera.
Inspur
Inspur, formerly Langchao (浪潮), is a Chinese multinational information technology company headquartered in Jinan, Shandong, China. The company's most important product is server hardware, but it also acts as a software developer and an outsourcing recipient for both the United States of America and Japan.
Join Network Studio of NENU
Join Network Studio(Chinese: 卓音工作室) of Northeast Normal University China is affiliated with Student Career Service Center of NENU. This is a non-profit organization composed by some undergraduate students.
All departments except Software Department of the studio are located at the administration building of the main campus of NENU, and Software Department is situated in the Jingyue campus. The mission of Join Network Studio is to construct a top-class supporting system of college employment work in China.
Juphoon
Juphoon System Software is an international company which provides IMS solutions and services. The core team was established in Shenzhen in 2004 and it was officially established in Ningbo, China in 2005. Juphoon System Software has done long time research in the field of IMS applications and VoIP products.
They are trying to introduce the high-quality commercial SIP Stack and other protocols (HTTP, XML, Sigcomp, etc.) to international communication enterprises.
Kingdee
Kingdee International Software Group Limited （SEHK: 0268）is a Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board listed company, China software industry leader，leading enterprise management software company in the Asia-Pacific region. It was founded in August 8, 1993 & headquartered in Shenzhen, China.
Kingsoft
Kingsoft (Chinese: 金山软件; pinyin: jīnshān ruǎnjiàn; literally: "Gold Mountain Software") is a Chinese software company that has research and development centers in Beijing, Chengdu, Dalian, and Zhuhai. The company has historically focused on development for the internet and Microsoft Windows systems.
They also created an independent mobile internet subsidiary known as Cheetah Mobile and has worked on security software products, most recently moving towards internet-based applications, such as Kingsoft Kuaipan (a free cloud storage application running on multiple platforms).
Maxthon
Maxthon (Chinese: 傲游浏览器, originally known as MyIE2) is a freeware web browser for Windows, macOS and Linux, developed by Chinese company Maxthon Ltd based in Beijing. It is also available on Windows Phone 8, iOS[9] and Android platforms as Maxthon Mobile. Since the release of version 3, Maxthon supports both the Trident and the WebKit rendering engines.
Menksoft
Menksoft (Mongolian: ᠮᠦᠩᠬᠡ ᠭᠠᠯ ᠰᠣᠹᠲ Müngke Gal soft, lit. "inextinguishible flame"; Chinese: 蒙科立, Pinyin: Měng Kē Lì, lit. "Mongol·Technology·Self-support") is an IT company in Inner Mongolia, who developed Menksoft Mongolian IME, the most widely used Mongolian language input method editor (IME) in Inner Mongolia.
Mobvoi
Mobvoi is the AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house. The mission of Mobvoi is to define the next generation of human-machine interaction via consumer products by leveraging our artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
The core team members include ex-Googlers, AI experts, former Nokia employees, engineers and researchers from top universities such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Cambridge and Tsinghua or top-tier Internet companies such as Yahoo Beijing, Baidu, Tencent, etc. Over 60% of the team at Mobvoi are engineers.
Since inception, Mobvoi has raised 5 rounds of funding led by Sequoia Capital, Zhenfund, SIG, Perfect Optronics Ltd (HK listed), GoerTek (A- Share listed) and Google with total fundraising amount of USD 75 million.
Mozilla China
Beijing Mozilla Online Ltd (Chinese: 北京谋智网络技术有限公司), a.k.a. Mozilla China (Chinese: 谋智中国), is a limited company to help promote and deploy Mozilla products in China.
Similar to Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla China is a for-profit company funded and created by a non-profit organization (Mozilla Foundation)
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Mozilla China build a Chinese version of the Mozilla web site, provide technical and architectural direction for Mozilla development in China, organize and operate discussion forums, and develop Mozilla source code in China.
Neusoft
Neusoft Corporation is a Chinese multinational provider of software engineering services, Information Technology services, product engineering services, IT education and medical equipment headquartered in Shenyang, China. It was founded in 1991 and, as of 2010, is the largest China-based company providing IT solutions and services and, as of 2012, the largest software outsourcing firm in China.
NewBornTown
NewBornTown (赤子城) is a Chinese mobile Internet company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is best known as the developer of the Solo Launcher , Solo AppLock, Solo Lock. Up today the Solo System apps gained over 500 million users worldwide .[3] NewBornTown is regarded as one of the fastest growing startups globally for the year 2014-2015.
The company successfully finished Series C round financing in August 2015 with several hundred million in CNY, valuing the company over 500 million in USD. Its well-known products Solo System apps (Solo Launcher) were awarded as global best apps in 2015, while the development teams were also entitled as Google Play Top Developers.
Panda Electronics
Panda Electronics is a Chinese manufacturer and brand for electronic products. The products include mobile phones, datacards, TV sets and set top boxes, administrative software, electronic instruments, satellite and mobile communication solutions as well as wireless safety surveillance solutions.
Qihoo 360
Qihoo 360 (Chinese: 奇虎 360; pinyin: Qíhǔ Sānliùlíng; approximate pronunciation CHEE-hoo), full name Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd., is a Chinese internet security company known for its antivirus software (360 Safeguard, 360 Mobile Safe), Web Browser (360 Browsers), and Mobile Application Store (360 Mobile Assistant).
It was founded by Zhou Hongyi and Qi Xiangdong in June 2005.[2][3] Qihoo 360 had 496 million users for its Internet Security products and 641 million users for its Mobile Antivirus products as of June 2014
Seioglobal
Seioglobal formerly "SSG" / Safesoft Global (Chinese: 晟峰成略, Hanyu Pinyin: Sheng Feng Cheng Lve), (registered as Shanghai Seio Software Technology Co.,Ltd) also commonly known locally as “Seio”, is amongst the Top10 IT service multinational corporations based in Shanghai with focus on providing information technology consulting and software development services to Forbes Global 2000 companies and multinational corporations.
In its portfolio it also develops Offshore Development Centers （ODC) for multinational corporations via its almost “no” language barrier talent model and is one of the few companies in its industry in China that owns a 30,000sqm technology software park (Jiaxing Software Park refer to List of technology centers), in addition to its own training and development center.
TCS China
Tata Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd is a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) operated by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in China. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) commenced its operations through its wholly owned foreign enterprise in Shanghai in June, 2002.
Subsequently, TCS has set up a global development center in Hangzhou and a liaison office in Beijing. In fact, TCS is the first Indian company to set up a development center in China. Tata Consultancy Services in China is the first CMMI & PCMM Level 5 Company in China.
Tencent
Tencent Holdings Limited (Chinese: 腾讯控股有限公司; pinyin: Téngxùn Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī; literally: "Soaring information"; SEHK: 700) is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online advertising services in China. Its headquarters are in Nanshan District, Shenzhen.
Tencent is one of the largest Internet companies in the world, many services of whose include social network, web portals, e-commerce, and multiplayer online games. Its offerings in China include the well-known instant messenger Tencent QQ and one of the largest web portals, QQ.com. Mobile chat service WeChat has helped bolster Tencent's continued expansion into smartphone services. Tencent holds 15% stake of JD.com, one of the largest B2C online retailers in China.
UCWeb
UCWeb Inc. (also known as UC Mobile) is a Chinese mobile Internet company that offers products and services including mobile browser, search and so on. Its flagship product, UC Browser, topped the China, Indonesia and India market in 2013.
UCWeb was founded in 2004 as a mobile browser maker; over the past decade it expanded to diversified areas such as mobile search, mobile gaming, mobile reading, etc. The company’s UC Browser is the most popular of its kind in China with more than 65.9% market share, according to market researcher iResearch.
YLMF Computer Technology Co., Ltd.
YLMF Computer Technology Co., Ltd. is a computer software company based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in May 2005, their most significant product to most of the world (including English speaking countries), was the Ubuntu based Linux distribution Ylmf OS.
Yonyou
Yonyou (officially Yonyou Software Co., Ltd., formerly UFIDA Software Co., Ltd.) is a software company headquartered in Beijing, China. Established in 1988, its principal products are accounting software and ERP software.
Yonyou has around 60 branches in mainland China and overseas branches in Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand.
Zhejiang Tailong Commercial Bank
Zhejiang Tailong Commercial Bank (TLB) (Chinese: 浙江泰隆商业银行, Pinyin: Zhèjiāng Tàilóng Shāngyè Yínháng), one of several SME financing service leading providers, is headquartered in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, Eastern China. Since its inception, the bank has cumulatively provided over ¥150 billion (around $23 billion) loans with average loan size of ¥500,000 to its clientele, and over 90% of which are peasants-turned entrepreneurs.
As its clientele often lacks the assets required by larger banks when applying for a loan, TLB grants and disburses loans secured through guarantors, which collateral form accounts for 99% of the total loans outstanding.
ZWCAD Software
ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd (short name ZWSOFT) is a CAD/CAM software provider headquartered in Guangzhou, China. Its main business is to develop computer-aided design software products for 2D and 3D design use, and it began doing overseas business in 2004.[1] So far it has built its business network in more than 80 countries and the number of its end users has surpassed 550,000.
It was founded in 1998 as Guangzhou Chinaweal Longteng Technology Co., Ltd. and changed the name to "ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd." in 2007. In the same year, the company became a founding member of the Open Design Alliance (ODA). It has three R&D centres, separately located in Guangzhou, Wuhan and Melbourne, Florida (USA).
What is The China Software Industry Association?
The China Software Industry Association (CSIA) is the major representative and one of the most active associations in the China Software industry. Its goal is to promote the development of software industry in China and provide a hub with overseas markets.
In its operations, the organization is nationally accredited by creating forums, intellectual property rights protection, and other activities related to setting industry regulation drivers within the country. The organization's members include major multinational corporations such as Microsoft as it enables them to meet fellow software industry organizations, innovators, and enhance the industry.
What are China's Top 10 Software Technology Parks?
1. Shanghai Zhangjiang High Technology Park
The Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park is a technology park in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It is operated by Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Development Co., Ltd. The park specializes in research in life sciences, software, semiconductors, and information technology. As of 2009, there were 110 research and development institutions, 3,600 companies and 100,000 workers located in the technology park. In some circles the park is also known as China's Silicon Valley.
2. Beijing Software Industry Base
3. Shenzhen Software Park
4. Dalian Software Park
5. Xi’an Software Park
6. Chengdu Tianfu Software Park
7. Guangzhou Tianhe Software Park
8. Jinan Qilu Software Park
9. Hangzhou High Technology Software Park
10. Nanjing (Jiansu) Software Park
How has China's IT Service Outsourcing Grown in 2015?
- Chinese companies inked service outsourcing contracts worth $130.9 billion, up 22.1 percent year on year.
- Of the total, offshore service outsourcing contracts reached $87.29 billion, rising 21.5 percent from a year earlier.
- Information technology-related services accounted for nearly half of the offshore deals.
- Contracts fulfilled with businesses in the United States and European Union, two major trade partners, jumped 17.5 percent and 17.6 percent respectively in their value, while those with Japanese businesses fell 9.8 percent.
- Outsourcing deals signed with countries along the Belt and Road route stood at $17.83 billion, up 42.6 percent from a year earlier.
- China is the world's second-largest service outsourcing provider after India. The State Council described the sector as a "green industry" that will be a new engine for tertiary industry and a boon to employment.
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