en.Wedoany.com Reported - In the first five months of 2026, China's software and information technology services industry (hereinafter referred to as the "software industry") operated steadily, with software business revenue growing robustly, total profit growth slowing, and software business exports maintaining positive growth.
I. Overall Operation
In the first five months, China's software business revenue reached 6.2451 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.3%. The total profit of the software industry was 717.3 billion yuan, up 2.2% year-on-year. Software business exports amounted to 27.65 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 12.8%.
II. Operation by Segment
Software product revenue grew steadily. In the first five months, software product revenue reached 1.3608 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%, accounting for 21.8% of the total industry revenue. Among this, basic software product revenue was 80.9 billion yuan, up 10.0% year-on-year; industrial software product revenue was 123.7 billion yuan, up 8.6% year-on-year.
Information technology service revenue maintained double-digit growth. In the first five months, information technology service revenue reached 4.2761 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.3%, accounting for 68.5% of the total industry revenue. Among this, cloud computing and big data services achieved combined revenue of 703.2 billion yuan, up 12.1% year-on-year, accounting for 16.4% of information technology service revenue; integrated circuit design revenue was 175.9 billion yuan, up 19.2% year-on-year; e-commerce platform technical service revenue was 459.1 billion yuan, up 5.1% year-on-year.
Information security revenue and embedded system software revenue grew steadily. In the first five months, information security products and services revenue was 110.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%. Embedded system software revenue was 497.9 billion yuan, up 12.5% year-on-year.
III. Operation by Region
In the first five months, software business revenue in the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions increased by 10.5%, 12.9%, 8.8%, and 5.9% year-on-year, respectively. The software business revenue of the eastern region accounted for 84.7% of the national total. Software business revenue in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region increased by 9.9% year-on-year, and in the Yangtze River Delta region by 11.6% year-on-year, with these two regions accounting for 26.1% and 30.6% of the national total, respectively. Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Shandong ranked among the top five in software business revenue, with year-on-year increases of 10.0%, 10.7%, 12.1%, 11.0%, and 8.6%, respectively.
