Click Here to See Beijing's Big BoomBeijing is the largest software exporting-city in China, with shipments worth US$34.17 million last year and commanding two-thirds of China's sales, according to the Beijing Municipal General Administration of Customs.Concentration of top-notch scientists and technicians of the country and advanced technologies has put Beijing's exports ahead of the rest of China for more than 10 years. Exports of China-copyrighted software have grown heavily and are now more than half of all exports, statistics show. Several years ago, the country exported software along with copyrighted or accepted semi-finished-software to process and export, according to a Beijing customs official. Now things have changed, more Chinese enterprises are now making their own software for export and registering copyrights in China. Statistics show that software copyright registration shot up after 1997 and totalled 5,000 last year. Internet software exports, feeding off an international Net frenzy, also flourished last year as volume exceeded US$2 million in 1999. The rising number of Chinese Internet users, from 2 million in 1998 to 8.9 million last year, has further accelerated the development of Internet software. Export prices vary. Games and educational software prices dropped 20 per cent last year. But Net-related software has become more expensive, a Beijing customs source said. "Most welcomed is CD-ROM software because of CDs' large file-saving capacity and strong anti-magnetization ability," said an official with Beijing Customs. Beijing's CD exports were worth US$2.87 million last year, nine times more than in 1998. |
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