People's Daily: Let more homegrown software make its mark (Observatory)

A new generation of information technology is increasingly integrated into the whole process of all fields of economy and society, as an important pedestal for the development of digital economy, it is the right time for the software industry to be bigger and stronger.

Looking back at the 10-year development history of China's software industry, the industry's business revenue has grown from about 2.5 trillion yuan in 2012 to about 9.5 trillion yuan in 2021, an increase of nearly three times, and has maintained a high double-digit growth. What is the secret behind the growth?

Before 2012, under the tide of the booming global information industry, China took the initiative to integrate into the global software industry chain division of labor, with strong demand for informatization applications in various industries, the software industry maintained a high growth rate, but it has long been in the middle and low-end, and the core software is subject to restrictions. With the market dividend gradually transferring to the upstream of the industry chain, accelerating the upstream to the middle and upper reaches of the industry value chain by enhancing the capability of independent innovation has become the road to the high-quality development of the software industry.

In these 10 years, anchoring innovation, upgrading speed, the core competitiveness of the industry chain continues to improve. Three-dimensional CAD modeling capabilities continue to improve, product performance has been close to the international medium level; management software not only market share absolutely dominant, in the high-end market can also compete with overseas vendors ...... generation of science and technology for a rainy day, firmly embarked on the road of scientific and technological self-support, ten years as one day, "hard work to sharpen a sword ", the introduction of a number of landmark achievements; a number of outstanding enterprises with the tenacity to focus on research, deepen the application of hard work and rooted in the industry of the force, in the independent innovation to move forward, and promote China's software industry to achieve the scale of the quality and efficiency of the overall enhancement.

In these 10 years, withstanding pressure and challenges, the safety and controllability of the industrial chain has been continuously enhanced. The road of upgrading is not destined to be smooth. In the midst of the storm, the domestic software industry maintains its determination and reaps the benefits of the domestic database to realize the difficult metamorphosis from 0 to 1, and to take root and grow in a number of industry sectors. Practice has repeatedly told us that the key technology is not to come, can not be bought, can not be discussed. Especially in the information technology has a profound impact on the transformation and upgrading of all walks of life, always related to the good life of thousands of households, China's software industry than at any time in the past more need to take the initiative to innovate, the initiative to develop firmly in their own hands.

Embarking on a new journey to promote the high-quality development of the software industry, to achieve a new leap in industrial competitiveness, it is still necessary to enhance the sense of concern, firm confidence in innovation, to research and use to win a broader space for development. On the one hand, China's basic software ecosystem has not yet matured, industrial software is still in the climbing stage, still have to bury their heads in the sand, breakthroughs in core technology, in order to protect the industrial chain supply chain security. On the other hand, it is also necessary to accelerate the application of promotion, accelerate the maturity of product iteration. Industrial software based on industrial demand development, the need for more enterprises to domestic software open application scenarios, in order to promote technological progress in the market test.

Tree high leaves, Department of deep roots. At present, the new generation of information technology is booming, increasingly integrated into the whole process of economic and social fields, as an important base for the development of the digital economy, the software industry is just the right time to make it bigger and stronger. It should be seen that China has the systemic advantage of centralized efforts to do big things, the advantages of large-scale market and a more complete industrial system, industrial innovation and development of the bottom, potential. Firm confidence, adhere to the scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, the software industry will be able to show its strength on the road of high-quality development.

RENMIN RIBAO (May 25, 2022, 18th Edition)