China’s GIS Industry

Per China Economic Net locally made GIS software, unlike other software, has become wildly successful in that country.

At present, the market share of most domestically produced software accounts only about 5 percent in such fields as operating system, database, and office software while domestic GIS software outshines all the others in the market of GIS software with a high proportion of over 35 percent, thus having broken the monopoly of foreign software in that field.

There are more than 1,000 enterprises engaged in the development of GIS software and applications, and the annual production value realized through the sales of commodities like software has amounted to a few hundred million yuan.

The article mentions but one product, however: the Chinese Academy of Sciences SuperMap, which produces SuperMap GIS, which is not only popular in China but has enterred the Japanese market.

The article notes an annual growth rate of 35 percent for GIS, I believe that means in China.