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Int'l IT fair opens in Dalian

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-06-22 10:41

Participants at China International Software and Information Service Fair
2007, which opened yesterday in Dalian, North China's Liaoning Province.
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The Fifth China International Software and Information Service Fair
opened on Thursday in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning
Province.

More than 700 IT businesses, including Lenovo , Intel, Siemens and
Toshiba, from home and abroad are demonstrating consumer electronics,
integrated circuits, IT outsourcing and consultancy, digital
entertainment and other services and products at the fair, which covers
30,000 square meters.

Major events during the four-day fair will include forums on innovation
in the software industry, IT personnel training, outsourcing of China's
software and information services, and an IT job fair, organizers said.

Intel Corp., which announced in March plans to build a 2.5-billion-dollar
chip factory in Dalian, is to hold themed seminars to promote its
software.

Infosys, the world's second largest software exporter, will be
represented at the fair for the first time. Infosys (China) chief
executive James Lin said the fair served as a great platform for Infosys
to communicate with other companies and make the Indian firm better known
to Chinese industries.

The fair, jointly sponsored by eight ministries and government
departments including the Ministry of Commerce , the Ministry of
Information Industry, the Ministry of Education and the Liaoning
Provincial government, is the only national software fair in China, and
the largest of its kind in the country.

The sales volume of China's software industry grew 23 percent year on
year to 480 billion yuan in 2006, according to the Ministry of
Information Industry.

The ministry also predicted China's market for software and information
services would reach one trillion yuan by 2010.

Dalian, one of China's major software production and export bases, has
about 510 software companies, 30 percent of them overseas-funded like
Nokia, Ericsson and General Electrics. In 1998, it had 100 software
companies.

The city registered sales of 10 billion yuan in software industry in
2005, or 50 times that of 1998.

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