People’s Daily reports:

China’s software sector generated 580 billion yuan (about 80.8 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue in 2007, an annual increase of 20.8 percent, the Ministry of Information Industry reported.

Specifically, sales of software products surged 22.5 percent to 201.7 billion yuan, while system integration income rose 16 percent to 147.8 billion yuan, the latest ministry statistics said.

The income of software and technology services hit 97.8 billion yuan, up 24.8 percent. Revenues of embedded system software hit 115.5 billion yuan, up 21.8 percent year on year.

Revenues generated from integrated circuit design jumped 16.8 percent year on year to 17.1 billion yuan, the ministry said without giving further details.

The actual report is much more interesting. It breaks down the revenue numbers (whatever they may be worth) by province.

Provinces in less than four categories were not highlighted.

Beijing clearly is China’s IT center, its overall revenue more than doubled second-place Guangdong. The top three (Shanghai is third) combine to outproduce the rest of China.

What’s surprising is Jiangsu Province, just to the west of Shanghai. Three of its cities, Nanjing (the provincial capitol), Suzhou, and Wuxi all have software development parks. Each has a mix of international and domestic software firms. Jiangsu is diversified across all categories. The one category where it is not in the top five (revenue growth for embedded software) is skewed by outrageous growth rates in other provinces that are likely due to inaugural projects.

Sichuan is up and coming, with a lot of foreign investment in its technology sector driving revenue growth in five of six categories. I have no idea what Inner Mongolia is doing, but their software park must have had a great year.

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