[June 04, 2009] SOUTH CHINA'S SOFTWARE PARK AIMS TO RIVAL SILICON VALLEY Tweet GUANGZHOU, Jun 04, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Tianhe Software Park in Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, aims to achieve 100 billion yuan (US$14.6 billion) of output value by 2015, becoming an ecological software community similar to the US silicon valley. According to a detailed plan of the park, which was recently approved by the Guangzhou City Government, The park, covering an area of 12.25 square km, will develop an area of 56.85 hectares for living, with facilities for education, medical care, culture and sports activities, business services, finance, posts and telecom, and community services. The Park is estimated to host 600 high-end software enterprises, with a combined output value exceeding 50 billion yuan by 2010. Its Gaotang Campus will accommodate 1,200 enterprises by 2015, with software export value piercing nine billion yuan, and output value 100 billion yuan. Tianhe Software Park is designated as a state-level hi-tech industry development zone, National Torch Program Software Industry Base, China Network Games and Animation Industry Base, and national software export and innovation base. It is the second largest software park in China in terms of comprehensive scale, following Zhongguancun in Beijing. (XIC) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]