The top 100 software companies have achieved outstanding results in R&D and innovation. The investment in R&D of the Top 100 in 2017 was 232 billion yuan in total, an increase of 19% over the previous year. The average R&D input intensity exceeded 10%. In 2017, the number of registrations of the top 100 corporate computer software copyrights was cumulative. 83,951 cases, an increase of 94% over the previous year, accounting for 11.5% of the total industry registration.
The international management level of China's top 100 software companies is also improving. In 2017, nearly half of the top 100 enterprises had overseas market revenues, and the software export volume reached 28 billion US dollars, accounting for more than 50% of the national software exports. The business scope began to The traditional outsourcing business based on testing and back-office business processes extends to the upstream of the entire industry chain and continues to rise to the high end of the value chain. The low-end business is constantly replaced by advanced technology formats such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
In terms of cloud computing, the revenue scale ranks third in the world, and the top three in the domestic cloud computing market share are Chinese enterprises. In the field of artificial intelligence, China's key core technologies in speech recognition and computer vision are at the advanced level in the world.