China Net Finance, May 24, according to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to April, my country’s software and information technology service industry (hereinafter referred to as the software industry) continued to recover steadily, business revenue maintained rapid growth, total profit growth slowed, and software exports The growth is steady. The application of new-generation information technologies such as cloud services and big data services has accelerated. Details are as follows:
1. Overall operation
Software business revenue maintained rapid growth. 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 dropped by 1.5 percentage points from January to March. The compound growth rate in the past two years was 11.7%. 
Figure 1 Software business revenue growth from 2020 to 2021 from January to April The growth of total profits slowed down. From January to April, the industry realized a total profit of 288.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.5%, a decrease of 5.4 percentage points from January to March, and a compound growth rate of 8.5% in the past two years. Figure 2 The growth of the total profit of the software industry from 2020 to 2021 from January to April Software exports grew steadily. From January to April, the software industry achieved exports of US$14.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14.5%, basically returning to the level of the same period in 2019. Among them, the export of outsourcing services was US$4.06 billion, a year-on-year increase of 22.3%; the export of embedded system software was US$5.86 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.2%. Figure 3 The export growth of the software industry from 2020 to 2021 from January to April The number of employees has increased steadily, and the growth rate of total wages has increased slightly. From January to April, the average number of employees in the software industry in my country was 7.11 million, an increase of 5.8% year-on-year, and the scale increased by 140,000 from January to March; total wages of employees increased by 11.0% year-on-year, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from January to March. The compound growth rate in the past two years is 5.6%. Figure 4 The growth of total wages of software industry employees from 2020 to 2021 from January to April 2. Operation status by field Software product revenue grew steadily and rapidly. From January to April, software products achieved revenue of 682.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.5%, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from January to March, accounting for 26.5% of the industry’s revenue. With the continuous release of favorable policies in the field of intelligent manufacturing and the demand for industrial informatization and intelligent upgrading and transformation, the revenue of industrial software products reached 62.8 billion yuan, an increase of 22.3% year-on-year and an increase of 1.4 percentage points from January to March. Revenue from information technology services maintained rapid growth. From January to April, information technology services achieved revenue of 1,622.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.8%, a drop of 2.4 percentage points from January to March, and accounting for 63.1% of the industry’s revenue. Among them, with the continuous expansion of online education, telemedicine and other applications, cloud computing and big data applications accelerated, the two achieved a total revenue of 227 billion yuan, an increase of 26.8% year-on-year, accounting for 14.0% of information technology service revenue; e-commerce platform technical services The revenue was 20.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.4%; the IC design revenue was 62 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.6%. Revenue from information security products and services has accelerated growth. With the acceleration of domestic digital transformation, the importance of information security has increased significantly. From January to April, information security products and services achieved a total revenue of 38.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.4%, an increase of 3.6 percentage points from January to March. The growth rate of embedded system software revenue was steady but slow. From January to April, embedded system software realized revenue of 228.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.4%, and a decrease of 3.3 percentage points from January to March. Figure 5 The proportion of the software industry’s classified revenue from January to April 2020/2021 3. Operation by region The income of the software industry in the northeastern region has increased rapidly, and the growth in the central region has been outstanding. From January to April, the eastern region completed 2,125.8 billion yuan in software business revenue, a year-on-year increase of 26.1%, down 1.3 percentage points from January to March, and 1.1 percentage points higher than the national average. Under the influence of the low base of the previous year, the central region completed software business revenue of 974 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.4%, an increase of 1.7 percentage points from January to March, and 1.4 percentage points higher than the national average. The western region completed software business revenue of 291.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.5%, a drop of 4 percentage points from January to March. The Northeast region completed software business revenue of 56.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.7%, an increase of 1.4 percentage points from January to March. The software business revenue of the four regions accounted for 82.7%, 3.8%, 11.3%, and 2.2% of the total national revenue, respectively. Figure 6 Software industry revenue growth by region from January to April 2021 Major software provinces continued to grow rapidly, and some central and western provinces and cities grew rapidly. From January to April, among the top 5 provinces in software business revenue, Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai had software revenue of 541.8 billion yuan, 493.4 billion yuan, 355.4 billion yuan, 228.5 billion yuan, and 186.7 billion yuan, respectively. Increased by 43.8%, 19.4%, 22.9%, 16.1% and 30.5%, the total software business revenue of the five provinces and cities was 1805.8 billion yuan, accounting for 70.2% of the country’s proportion, which was 2.3 percentage points higher than the same period last year. Due to the small total volume and low base, the software business revenue in the five provinces of Guizhou, Hainan, Shanxi, Yunnan and Guangxi increased by more than 50% year-on-year. Figure 7 Growth of the top ten provinces and cities in software business revenue from January to April 2021 The revenue of the software business in central cities has grown steadily, and the growth of total profits has slowed down. From January to April, 15 sub-provincial central cities across the country realized software business revenue of 1383.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.2%, and a decrease of 2.6 percentage points from January to March, accounting for 53.8% of the national software business revenue, accounting for the same period last year A decline of 1.7 percentage points. Among them, the year-on-year growth rate of Harbin and Ningbo’s software business revenue was 11.1 and 0.9 percentage points higher than the industry-wide revenue growth rate, respectively. The total profit of the software industry in central cities was 165.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%, and a decrease of 9.3 percentage points from January to March. Among them, Ningbo, Harbin, Xi’an, Shenyang, and Guangzhou recorded a total profit growth rate exceeding the industry average. Figure 8 The growth of software business revenue in sub-provincial central cities from 2020 to 2021 from January to April
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