DALIAN, China, March 17 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The China International Software & Information Service Fair will be held from June 18-21, 2009 in the northern Chinese city of Dalian. 
 

The China International Software and Information Service Fair (CISIS) is the only national-level software fair approved by the State Council of the P.R. China. It is sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Liaoning Provincial People's Government, and is organized by the Dalian Municipal People's Government and China Association of Trade in Service, while the China International Software and Information Service Centre is the secretariat. CISIS 2009 will be held at the Dalian World Expo Centre from June 18-21.

 

From its beginning, CISIS bears the historical tasks of leading the development of the Chinese software industry and undertaking the transformation of the world's emerging industries, expanding international collaboration with the Chinese software and information industries. CISIS was successfully held for six sessions and gained a high degree of recognition from domestic and foreign businesses. It is the largest software event in China with the highest level of response. CISIS is the best platform for global IT giants to open up in the Chinese market and for domestic provinces and cities to seek international cooperation.

 

The CISIS 2009 theme is "Encouraging Drivers" and consists of three parts -- Exhibition, Convention and Activity -- with six topics: International Cooperation, Innovation, Industry Application, Talents Exchange, Capital Connection and Credit System, which show the platform value of CISIS as the vane for businesses and the touchstone for enterprises.

 

The exhibition scale of CISIS 2009 is 30,000 square meters with 1,200 booths in the main exhibition zone, which includes mini booths (less than 9 square meters) and negotiation booths in World Economic Forum style. CISIS sets up a Global IT Village in the international zone to facilitate a communicate environment to meet the needs of enterprises promoting products without displays or conducting high-end negotiations during the exhibition.

 

CISIS will set up the Industry Application Software Zone, which gathers IT application achievements in the fields of logistics, shipping, and equipment manufacturing, etc. to promote information techniques and trends in e-commerce, internet, RFID, IC design and embedded software.

 

China International Software and Information Service Forum & Entrepreneurs' Summit is the main forum and the theme is "Risks, Opportunities and Growth". The forum will focus on the revitalization of China's industry planning, and 4-trillion-yuan investment in China's economic growth at home and abroad. This is the industry's highly sensitive topic of concern up for authoritative interpretation; participants, for the first time, will gain an in-depth understanding of Chinese Industry Promotion planning policy direction and key points. How to face the global financial crisis? How to transform the crisis into opportunity? How to realize industry optimization and create new increases through information technology? Those topics will be the hot issues.

 

Besides, the thematic forums such as China International Software Innovation Forum, China International Software and Information Service Outsourcing Forum, China International Software and Information Service Training Forum, China International Software and Information Service Venture Capital Forum & Connect Seminar, China Governor and Mayor Scientific Innovation Forum, etc. will discuss different topics. There will also be presentations from IDC, McKinsey, BearingPoint, Gartner, Nomura Research Institute, CCID, the Internet Association and a number of international and domestic top-level advisory bodies, focusing on global software industry development trends, in order to boost industrial development and to accelerate the industrial integration.

 

 

 

 

The Project Matchmaking Symposium for Chinese and foreign companies, in cooperation with the Matchmaking Symposium in Taiwan, will promote cooperation between IT enterprises and user enterprises during the exhibition.

 

We will invite medical directors in the information industry and foreign IT enterprises in the field of petrochemicals, steel, equipment manufacturing, logistics, retail, aviation, finance, communications, medicine, electricity, etc. for contacts, creating the opportunity for suppliers and buyers to communicate according to their needs.

 

CISIS will strengthen personal services, such as those for members who need to customize special conferences to invite industry experts to feel the pulse of their enterprises, provide high-end consultation, and strengthen the pre-booking business matching services to enable manufacturers and users to conduct direct and effective projects and gain information.

 

CISIS has completed the first round of booth sales, and organizations from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Switzerland are recruiting companies for building the national pavilion. The quantity of the world's software giants that are exhibitors remains the same as before, and 70% of provinces and municipalities intend to exhibit.

 

As a vane of China's software and information services industries, CISIS has always driven the development of China's software industry with global insight and constant analysis of industry changes in both domestic and foreign markets, demonstrating a qualitative leap in the event planning and operation. As a touchstone for software companies to verify the strength of their own development, CISIS brings a new attitude to the development of the Chinese software industry, expecting prosperity amid the economic crisis.