A Competitive Jinan in Software Industry

   In the start-up area of replacing old growth drivers with new ones in Jinan, Shandong Province, there are only two workers operating on a 150 meter long production line at the factory of Shandong Fangyin Intelligent Manufacturing Corporation, Loading, flipping and welding... It only takes one hour for a steel plate to become an H-shaped structural component.

The improvement in efficiency benefits from the application of industrial software. "After using our enterprise digital platform, the company's overall employment has decreased by about 40% and its production efficiency has increased by 60%." said Cai Wei, the Minister of Technology Innovation Department of Inspur Group, "We have released 34 software products, broken through 48 new software technologies, and provided digital transformation services for more than 1.2 million customers since 2022.

The Qilu Software Park, located in Jinan High and New Tech Development Zone, is one of the famous parks built by the city's with great effort. As early as 1997, Qilu Software Park was recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology as one of the first National Torch Plan Software Industry Bases in China. In recent years, the scale of the software industry in the city has continued to expand. Famous software enterprises have emerged in the park, such as  Shandong Shanda Huatian Software Corporation.　

"At the beginning, there were only 4 teachers and over 20 students. Now with a gathering of highly educated talents, the company has reached a scale of 1,000 people, which provides solid condition for the research and development of large-scale and complex industrial software." said Yang Chaoying, Chairman of Shandong Shanda Huatian Software Corporation. Benefiting from multiple policy support, the application scenarios of the company's series of industrial software have developed in recent years, and the service targets are becoming more and more diverse.　

In recent years, Jinan has adhered to the demand oriented development, continuously increased the cultivation and recruitment of high-level software talents and vigorously promoted the construction of characteristic demonstration software colleges to promote the integration of the chains of industry, innovation, talents and education.