In 2021, the software and information services industry in Beijing registered an operating income of CNY 2.2 trillion, the highest in China; the ratio of the industrial added value to Beijing's GDP has increased from 11.3 percent in 2017 to 16.2 percent in 2021, which reveals a greater contribution of the industry to the city's economic development, and the accelerated formation of an industrial ecosystem with international competitive advantages.

As one of "China's first demonstration cities for comprehensive information consumption" (2019) and a "national AI innovation application pilot zone" (2021), Beijing has developed a complete industrial chain covering a wide range of fields such as basic software, application software, information technology service, Internet information service, and embedded software, and has emerged as a city with most active innovation and entrepreneurship practice and most complete software and information service product system. In Beijing, the market size of cloud computing, big data, AI and other emerging fields has quickly surpassed CNY 1 trillion, and the scale of such fields as industrial Internet, cybersecurity, innovation of information technology application, navigation and positioning service of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System and information consumption has been expanding, manifesting that emerging industries have become the engine driving an industry-wide transformation that goes with the trend of new technologies.

(Source: Beijing Youth Daily)