It has grown about 30% in 3 ¨C 5 years.
According to the report of a venture capital research organization, the big development environment of Chinese software industry is good, along with the gradual improvement of Chinese large-scale enterprises' informationization construction and the gradual development of small and middle-size enterprises' informationization construction, the demands of IT products including software products will also grow at a steady pace, it is predicted that in the next 3 ¨C 5 years, the investment of Chinese software industry will keep growing with more than 30% growth rate.
According to the statistics, in 2007, there are 24 investment cases in Chinese software industry, the total investment amount is 240 million US dollars; compared with 2006, the investment cases has grown about 33.3%, and the investment amount has grown about 41.1%. The investment of the whole software industry is growing with a steady pace, it is expected that in 2008, the annual investment amount will reach 330 million US dollars, the investment cases will reach 28.
The report says that during 2004 to 2005, the investment institutions focuses on those software enterprises in the period of expanding and profiting, along with the fast development of Chinese software industry, during 2006 to 2007, more and more software enterprises which are in early and developing stage have got great attention and successful investment. As the further mature development of Chinese software industry, more and more new software application has appeared, and more and more software enterprises in early and developing stage will get more attention from investment institutions.
It is said that in Chinese software industry, the accumulative total investment are from Intel, and the accumulative total cases are from IDGVC.
From the sub-sectors, in 2007, the application software industry has got 3.8 million US dollars' investment with 5 investment cases, compared to last year, the investment amount has decreased 88.2%, and the investment cases are as same as last year. In 2007, each investment of application software was 760,000 US dollars. Since application software has entered a mature stage, the industry development rule agrees with the industry life cycle rule, analyzing from the prospect of application industry life cycle, 2007 is the trough of industry cycle, so the investment will also be reduced.
Along with the further development of Chinese software industry, the industry life cycle will peak in 2008, more and more new software application will appear, and more outstanding application software enterprises will also be created, the investment scale will rapidly expand in 2008.
In addition, the investment amount of has reached 125 million US dollars, and the cases of investment has reached 6, compared with last year, the investment amount has went upward 88.6%, the investment cases has went upward 100%.
The devotion of software outsourcing is small, but the profit is high, and it is a human-intensive industry. In those IT industries, software outsourcing is the one whose resource and energy consumption is the least, the industrial characteristic is in line with Chinese energy-saving emission reduction requirements, these characteristics have decided that software outsourcing industry will get great support from government, and it is a very promising industry.
