,
the capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province in five
years.
The processing center would employ 100,000 software engineers and
generate a sales value of 20 billion yuan (US$2.42 billion)
annually, said Mao Lei, director of the .
China has already built software bases in Beijing, Shanghai,
Shenyang, Xi'an and Chengdu cities with each having its own unique
features.
As
a technology-intensive city in western China, Xi'an has 36
universities, three software colleges and 400 software enterprises
with a total workforce of 300,000.
The software enterprises in Xi'an generated 2.7 billion yuan
(US$326.6 million) in gross domestic product last year, making up
90 percent of Shaanxi' s total GDP from its software industry.
To
date, over 30 software enterprises have settled in the Xi'an
Software Park. They are cooperating with their counterparts in
Japan and Taiwan in new product development.
Wu
Jichuan, minister in charge of the information industry, predicted
that the sales value of software products in China would top 250
billion yuan (US$ 30.24 billion) by 2005.
(China
Daily March 12, 2002)