What is software engineering?

Software engineering is the study and application of how to develop and maintain software in a systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable process approach, and how to combine time-tested management techniques that have proven to be correct, with the best technological methods currently available. It involves programming languages, databases, software development tools, system platforms, standards, and design patterns.

How is it developing?

--Software industry scale expanding year by year

In recent years, China's software and information technology services industry is running in a good situation, revenue and benefits to maintain faster growth, absorbing employment steadily increased; industry to high-quality The pace of development in the direction of accelerated, the structure continues to adjust and optimize, new growth points continue to emerge, service and support the construction of the two strong countries ability to significantly enhance, is becoming an important driving force for the development of the digital economy, the evolution of the wisdom of society.

In 2019, more than 40,000 enterprises above the scale of the national software and information technology service industry, the cumulative software business income of 7176.8 billion yuan, an increase of 15.4% year-on-year.

In the first three quarters of 2020, China's software industry completed the software business income of 5838.7 billion yuan, an increase of 11.3% year-on-year.

--Information technology services occupy an absolutely dominant position

In recent years, China's software industry, the development situation of each segment of the market showed all the rise of the situation, that is, software products, information technology services, information security products and embedded systems software revenue market size have all seen growth.

Specifically, information technology services to maintain a leading position, the industry continues to service-oriented, cloud evolution. 2020 in the first three quarters, information technology services to achieve revenue of 3,516.2 billion yuan, accounting for 60.2% of the industry's revenue in the software industry occupies an absolutely dominant position. Among them, big data service revenue of 153 billion yuan; integrated circuit design revenue of 156.2 billion yuan; cloud service revenue of 145.3 billion yuan; e-commerce platform technology service revenue of 602.8 billion yuan.

Information security products and services revenue increased steadily. in the first three quarters of 2020, information security products and services*** realized revenue of 95.9 billion yuan, accounting for 1.7% of the industry's revenue.

Embedded system software has become a key driving technology for the digital transformation of products and equipment, and for intelligent value-added in various fields.

In the first three quarters of 2020, embedded system software realized revenues of 636.5 billion yuan, accounting for 10.9% of industry-wide revenues.

--For more research and analysis of this industry, please refer to China Software Industry Market Outlook and Investment Strategy Planning Analysis Report by Prospect Industry Research Institute.