On June 15, the press conference of the 25th China International Software Expo 2021 (hereinafter referred to as "Soft Expo") was held in Beijing. Sponsored by the China Electronics and Information Industry Association, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, this year's Soft Expo will be held at the Baima Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center in Binjiang District, Hangzhou from August 26 to 28.

The Soft Expo has been successfully held for 24 sessions, and has played an important role in corporate exchanges and cooperation, participating in market competition, enhancing brand advantages, promoting the innovation and development of the software industry, and participating in international cooperation. It has become an important platform for promoting the development of my country's software industry. This year's Software Expo will set a new historical record, with an exhibition area exceeding 20,000 square meters. Industry-leading companies, software cities, software parks, characteristic exemplary software academies, foreign-funded enterprises, internationally renowned institutions, and international industry organizations will appear at the exhibition. , Industry big cards, well-known experts, academicians of the two academies, and international friends are equivalent to discussing the way and colliding thinking. At the same time, it also brings together well-known domestic and foreign brands and annual innovative products.

The theme of this year's Soft Expo is "Software Empowers the Future of Digital Intelligence". A total of exhibitions, interactive experiences, exciting events, results releases, parallel forums and other activities are arranged. Among them: the exhibition includes software empowerment·comprehensive achievements, software empowerment·digital reform, software empowerment·information innovation, software empowerment·transcend open source, software empowerment·industry transformation, software empowerment·digital life, software empowerment ·Emerging technologies, software empowerment·Linkage International and other eight themed exhibitions, focused on showing the transformation of software-enabled industries, power, finance, energy and other industries, reflecting the important role and value of software in promoting the transformation and upgrading of key industries; It demonstrates the application of software in digital transportation, digital medical, digital sports, digital media, smart home and other fields, reflecting the important role of software in people's clothing, food, housing, transportation and other fields. In addition, the "Digital Reform Theme Exhibition Area", the "New Energy and Intelligent Connected Cars and Other Corporate Image Exhibition Area" and the "Smart Interactive Experience Exhibition Area" have also been added.

During the Soft Expo, a number of industry achievements will be released, such as the "Annual Software and Information Technology Service Enterprise Competitiveness Report and Top 100 Enterprises", "Annual Software Outstanding Innovative Products", "Software Expo Exhibitor Product Awards" and other industry achievements; more than 20 games will be held Parallel forums and a main forum focus on discussions on hot topics in industries such as digital reform, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data; during the period, a "software night" will be held to highlight the industry festival.

This year's Software Expo will closely focus on the "Outline of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development", the recent key work of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the development ideas of the host real estate industry. It focuses on software in facilitating digital transformation, boosting the digital economy, leading innovation and development, and safeguarding the country. The core values ​​of security, etc., show the new characteristics, new models, and new formats of the software industry development, embody the concept of “digitalization”, present high-end, professional, interactive, and international characteristics, and adhere to the “government establishment, association matching, "Enterprise-oriented, market operation" will help the high-quality development of China's software industry.

At present, my country is continuously advancing the advanced industrial base, modernizing the industrial chain, accelerating digital development, strengthening the supply of key software, and maintaining growth in the software industry. Since the beginning of this year, my country’s software and information technology service industries have continued to recover steadily. Business income has maintained rapid growth, total profit growth has slowed down, and software exports have grown steadily. The application of new-generation information technologies such as cloud services and big data services has accelerated. From January to April, my country's software industry completed software business revenue of 2571.9 billion yuan, an increase of 25.0% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 1.5 percentage points lower than that from January to March. The compound growth rate in the past two years was 11.7%. The industry realized a total profit of 288.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.5%. From January to April, the software industry achieved exports of US$14.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14.5%.

In recent years, Zhejiang has attached great importance to the development of the software industry, with outstanding industrial characteristics. With digital reform as the fulcrum, it has continuously leveraged various aspects of the economy and society, and used digital technology, digital thinking, and digital cognition to control the system, mechanism and organization of provincial governance. The structure, methods, processes, and tools have undergone a comprehensive and systematic reshaping.

As a "China Software City", Hangzhou is at the forefront of the country in terms of software empowering digital transformation and promoting integration and innovation. Software applications have penetrated into all aspects of economic life. The industrial advantages of cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, and mobile payment have been highlighted. E-commerce, finance and taxation, industrial control, security monitoring and other fields are in the forefront of the country, creating "for Hangzhou" The “First City of the National Digital Economy” and the full implementation of the “New Manufacturing Plan” provide strong technical support.

Established in 1990, Hangzhou High-tech Zone is one of the first batch of national high-tech industrial development zones approved by the State Council. It is a national independent innovation demonstration zone and has been included in the creation sequence of the country's world-class high-tech parks. Over the years, Hangzhou High-tech Zone (Binjiang) has persisted in independent innovation and independent cultivation, and has created a full industrial chain of digital economy. The added value of the core industries of the digital economy accounts for more than 70% of GDP. The comprehensive evaluation of the digital economy has ranked first in the province for many years, and a total of 57 listed companies have been cultivated. There are a number of world-renowned companies such as Hikvision, NetEase, Ali, Dahua, Xinhua San, Hang Seng, etc., which have gathered 10 national top 100 software companies, and 40 key software and integrated circuit design companies in the national planning layout, accounting for all 70% of the province's total, the level of development ranks among the top in the country.

This year's Soft Expo is jointly organized by the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, Hangzhou Economic and Information Technology Bureau, Hangzhou High-tech Zone (Binjiang) Management Committee, and the government. At present, the official website (www.cisexpo.com) and WeChat public account have been officially opened, and the registration of exhibitors, visitors and journalists has also been officially launched. It is expected that there will be academicians, experts, business representatives and international friends from more than 400 companies and institutions from more than 10 countries, more than 100 local provinces and cities.