Shanghai Forum on Software Trade, organized by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization and presented by Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Co., Ltd, was held on October 16 at the Caohejing Hi-Tech Park.
At the opening ceremony, guests addressed speeches on the topic of “Software Defines Companies—Facing the New Challenges of the Trade Layout via Digital Innovation”. In June of this year, Chinese central government approved to develop pilots of deepening service trade development in 17 provinces and regions like Shanghai and issued relevant promotion policies to provide sound environment for the development of software trade. It’s certain that this move will further underpin the advantages of Shanghai service trade and make greater contribution to the upgrading of China’s foreign trade. In the former half of this year, the software companies in Shanghai have signed 1,765 software exporting contracts worth USD 3.111 billion in total, a year-on-year growth of 26.55%. In 2017, Shanghai has achieved a total service trade amount of USD 195.5 billion, the largest number in China, increasing to 29.1% of the total of Shanghai’s foreign trade, 14.6% higher than the average of the whole country. They are developing into more optimized structure, stronger and stronger entities and more and more innovative business modes. Also, they put forward a lot of new experience and new approaches. In the next step, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce will push the development of Shanghai service trade through system innovation, entity cultivation, facilitating system, focused fields and atmosphere building.
Shanghai Forum on Software Trade has been held for 16 years consecutively. Since 2003, the forum has provided a professional and pragmatic communication platform for software companies home and abroad to conduct win-win cooperation. It has explored to acquire authoritative prediction, interpret the latest policies, share successful practices and bridge cooperation projects, and obtained beneficial results. It enjoys a good reputation within the industry and has contributed to the development of Shanghai’s software trade.