The China Electronic Information Industry Association released the “Top 100 Enterprises in Software and Information Technology Services Comprehensive Competitiveness”, referred to as the top 100 software companies. The top three are Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and China Unicom. From the list, the listed companies have five characteristics, namely, continuous improvement in scale efficiency, remarkable achievements in research and development, accelerated growth in emerging fields, comprehensive deepening of international layout, and continuous enhancement of support.
The Top 100 Chinese Software Industry Companies in 2019 are these:
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In terms of income, the total software business revenue of the listed enterprises totaled 1,237.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%, higher than the industry average growth rate of 2.7 percentage points. There are 17 companies with a software business income of more than 10 billion yuan and 34 with more than 5 billion yuan. The top 100 enterprises have created 20% of the industry’s income and 40% of the profits, which is less than 0.25% of the industry’s total. The support and leading role of the whole industry has become increasingly prominent.
From the perspective of R&D and innovation, the total investment in R&D in the 2019 session was 254 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.2%, which was 10.3 percentage points higher than the growth rate of software business revenue. The number of computer software copyright registrations reached 130,000, an increase of more than 50% over 2018, which was higher than the industry-wide average growth rate of 9 percentage points.
In terms of the field, revenue from big data business increased by 48% year-on-year, exceeding the growth rate of software business revenue by 30%. In the field of artificial intelligence, Baidu and Xunfei have reached the international advanced level and led the formation of a certain industrial chain scale. In the field of cloud computing, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, Baidu, etc. have launched a number of new product and service frameworks.
From the perspective of international layout, in 2018, the software export scale of the top 100 enterprises reached 31 billion US dollars, an increase of 10.7% over the previous year, accounting for 56% of the national software exports. More than half of the top 20 companies in the 20th century have carried out multinational operations. More than 30 companies represented by Huawei, China Unicom, ChinaSoft International and iSoftStone have set up branch offices, R&D centers and branches abroad.