Software and integrated circuit industry is the core of information industry. Software and integrated circuit industries, the technological level and the size of a country's overall strength are one of the important symbols. By the end of December 2007, Wang Xudong, minister of information industry in the country working conference on the need to accelerate the development of core infrastructure industries, and make a full "core electronic devices, high-end general chips and basic software" and "great scale integrated circuits complete sets of manufacturing equipment and technology "and" a new generation of broadband wireless mobile communications network, "the organization and implementation of major project work.
Two sessions this year, many NPC deputies and CPPCC members to submit proposals and motions, requires increased in the software and integrated circuit industries, the intensity of its support. This is also participating in the information industry sector representatives and the common wishes of the members.
Policy leads the industrial development
In 2000 the State Council promulgated the "software industry to encourage the development and integrated circuit industries, a number of policy" to the promotion of China's software and integrated circuit industries, has played an important role in promoting. In recent years, China's software industry sales growth of the average annual income of 40% of the software industry revenue in 2007 reached 580 billion Yuan, an increase of 20.8%, five-year expansion of the scale of 5.3 times. 2007 IC yield 41.2 billion, an increase of 22.6%, five-year growth in integrated circuit production of 2.2 times. However, compared with developed countries, China's core infrastructure industries still exist in small gap, the most prominent enterprises in the small scale, technology, capital and management level with a big gap between the large multinational companies, the comprehensive national strength is not strong, the policy environment is not perfect enough, and so on. It is understood that the implementation of documents on the 18th there will be more than a year due on the 18th of the industrial policy document environmental concerns.
CPPCC National Committee, China's electronic information industry development, vice president of the Institute Xuxiaolan proposed introduction of a "software and the development of the integrated circuit industry." Taxation and finance, she suggested that the national software and integrated circuit industries, the establishment of special funds, the identification and adoption of the annual evaluation of the software and IC enterprises to the state corporate income tax, and other relevant aspects of tax incentives, production equipment of their own tax policy, national policy Bank of the software and integrated circuit industry support. In the innovation and application support, she recommended the establishment of financial funds, procurement software and integrated circuit product innovation system, and encourage and support enterprises to conduct joint innovation and international cooperation, and improve the software and integrated circuit intellectual property rights regime pledged to encourage foreign patent applications and participation in standards development, implementation and government procurement. In the supporting environment building to support the building of research and development centers, public service platform technology, software and integrated circuits support the establishment of export services institutions, and support the planning and layout of the software and integrated circuit industries, the construction and development of parks, and encourage and promote the establishment of professional software and integrated circuit industries incubator base.
In the software industry appears to Form New tax incentives. Format will be the development of new software such as IT consulting, solutions, systems integration and other non-product of the software services in the form of policy support. Enterprise software products and platform independent intellectual property rights of the R & D investment to tax concessions and special funds to support and broaden the channels for the import of software and senior personnel policy, and the introduction of support personnel to provide subsidies. Domestic further clear support software applications and related services in the government procurement policy, government procurement not only on their own innovative software products first procurement applications, but also include related services in the overall procurement.
Innovation Promotes the Industrial Upgrading
The technological innovation is the only way to develop China¡¯s core infrastructure industries. Liu Yulin, who is the member of National CPPCC Committee and the director of the Institute of Microelectronics in Heibei Industrial University, said, " Since the 1970s till now, the development of IC industry in China has been only investing and bringing in the equipment, and it has few investments on technologies and related materials, this results the percentage of standard is less than 50%, and the vicious circle of introduction, fall into disuse and re-introduction." Liu also appealed to increase the attention on the research and development of key technologies when focusing on research and develop equipments.
Liu Yuling pointed out that a great number of integrated circuit equipments and key technologies are knowledge-intensive, capital-intensive and talent-intensive high-tech industries; they are the forerunner and infrastructure of information industry. However, as IC industry develops rapidly, the international competition has become increasingly fierce. Many countries and areas such as the United States, Japan, European and etc. have been doing closure research, in order to restrict and control the development of China¡¯s microelectronic technology, they all declare invention patents before China, and this makes the situation of Chinese industry grimmer. To speed up the special implementation is imperative.
Liu Yuling also recommended that the joint research of manufacturers of equipment, technology, material and IC should be achieved. He said, "As the reliability validation of equipment, supplies and technology cannot be separated from units, so besides the colleges, research institution and enterprises, SMIC, Hua Hong, NEC and other related users must also attend the implementation of the major projects. This can really achieve home-making and form our own high-tech industrial chain."
About technological innovation, CVICSE has gathered all power through enhance the cooperation with colleges and scientific research institutes; it has formed an independent innovation way with enterprises as the mainstay, market-oriented and the combination of production and study. Jing Xinhai, who is one of the NPC deputies, the chairman and president of CVICSE said, in these years, through joint laboratories, post-doctoral research workstations and special researches, CVICSE has cooperated with the National University of Defense Technology, Beijing University, Beijing Aerospace University, as well as other colleges and universities at home and abroad on middleware, components, financial mathematics, network security, handwritten Chinese character recognition and the fostering of talents, and also on other fields, many scientific and technological results have been successfully applied. CVICSE has developed Infor series of middleware products with independent intellectual property rights; this has occupied a place for China in the international basis software filed in the Internet era.
Market Drives the Industry Be Stronger
Wu Hequan, who is the member of National CPPCC Committee and the vice president of Chinese Engineering Academy, said, "The core infrastructure products should face the market and get the approval of market, so we need to find a good starting point." He added, "Although we have ¡®dragon heart¡¯ and some independent operating system, the market occupancy of China¡¯s core industries. Facing the competition brought by international giants, it is hard for us to make a breakthrough in a short period.
He said that the CUP and operating system are the core of electronic information industry, which couldn¡¯t rely on market and uses¡¯ choices. The state should give continuous support and help industry to expand market, if the market cannot choose freely, the state can support some part of the market, such as the low-cost market, from the west, primary and secondary schools, and make the independent products can be perfected in application. The state should give subsidies and make our products be popularized.
Lin Huimin, who is the National CPPCC Committee member and the director of academic committee of software research institution of Chinese Science Institute, pointed out that in order to develop, the software industry must seize the market, on one hand, it need to develop the technologies according to the demand of market, but the more important is the real technological innovation creates demands and expand new market. He commented, "Software is being perfected when being used, find problems when using and improve it, make it mature, these need a lot of tests".
Lin Huimin stressed that the embedded software is definitely the direction for software enterprises to seek for development. The trend that software and hardware combine together in Chinese market is obvious, China¡¯s electronic manufacturing industry has a solid industrial base, this has laid a solid foundation for the development of embedded software. "Software outsourcing is another important development direction." Recently, the size of China¡¯s outsourcing market is small, it only accounts for about 4% of the global market, but the momentum is good. With its low cost and abundant labor, as well as the advantages on IT and infrastructure, China will become the biggest market in global service outsourcing. He also pointed out that China itself is a huge potential market, the demand energy of China¡¯s software industry will be released, in order to get rapid development, software enterprises must seize this opportunity, from platform to application and then to operation, achieve the development with the improvement of Chinese market, and create a competitive industry.
