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IT Rises as Shanghai's First Pillar Industry
The electronic information industry, formerly a "little brother", has now overtaken its "elder brother", the auto industry, to mount the throne as Shanghai's first pillar industry. This change fully shows the obvious optimization of Shanghai's industrial structure.
Take Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. for example. From 1997 to 1999, the annual output value of Shanghai Bell exceeded 10 billion yuan for years on end, which equals the sum total of the previous 10 years. In 2000, the development momentum grows even stronger in 2000.
The exceedingly swift development of Shanghai Bell exactly represents the rapid rise of Shanghai's electronic information industry. In the past three years, the output value of the electronic information industry has surged by an astonishing annual rate of over 35 percent, whose proportion in Shanghai's industry has also increased from 6.4 percent in 1997 to the present 10.6 percent. By the end of this year, its gross output value is estimated to reach 115 billion yuan.
It is on the basis of the implementation of the strategic structural readjustment of Shanghai's industry during the Ninth Five-year Plan period that the first place pillar industry was brought into existence. During the said period, Shanghai determinedly abandoned a group of labor-intensive and primary processing traditional industries and pushed some hi-tech industries such as electronic information, modern biology and medicine and new materials to the front stage. It established a number of large electronic information enterprises, including the Huahong, NEC and Siemens, which contain high technology and high added value. Meanwhile, many old State-owned enterprises, including Shanghai Radio & TV Group and Yangtze River Group, also took the development of modern information technology as a "propeller" for the restructuring of enterprises.
Currently, new and hi-tech industries, with information industry as the lead, have become the major impetus to Shanghai's sustained industrial economic growth. During the period of the Ninth Five-year Plan, the average annual growth rate of the gross output value of Shanghai's industry hit 16 percent, and per-capita productivity doubled that of the national average.
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