The rated 2006 top 10 events in the development of China's software industry are: Special plan (Proposal) for the "11th Five-Year Plan" on National Software and Information Services announced; The Electronic Signatures Law of the People's Republic of China promulgated; 9th China International Software Expo held in Beijing; domestic software in 12 "Jin series projects" plays an increasingly important leading role; Beijing has focused on creating "China's software center"; China, Japan and South Korea jointly promote the Linux open source software and local ERP software applications in Asia; State Council have approved that the Inter-Ministerial Joint formed by 10 departments jointly pushes forward the development of China's cartoon industry, online games industry, and digital entertainment industry; Office of the State Council promulgated the Opinions on Accelerating the Development of E-business; a number of domestic independently innovative software products are among the world's advanced ranks. The export of software outsourcing grow rapidly, where the country's total export of software outsourcing in 2005 is close to USD 4 billion. CS&S, Ufida, Neusoft, Founder, Digital China, FAW Qiming, Nanjing Nari, CVIC, Kingdee, Nanjing Linkage won the Award of China's 10 innovative software enterprises. Hanvon online handwriting OCR, Evermore Integrated Office software, Founder FIT integrated typesetting software, CS&S waterproof wall system, Baidu Chinese search engine, CVIC enterprise application integrated middleware InfotEA, TRS information retrieval system, SuperMap G S software platform, USTC iFlytek Interphonic Speech Synthesis System, and Sursen SEP document library won the award of China's 10 innovative software productss. (Source: Science and Technology Daily, Science & Technology Division of the Department)
