Recently, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that in the first quarter of this year, my country's software and information technology service industry (hereinafter referred to as "software industry") revenue was 314.79 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6% year-on-year, the total profit maintained double-digit growth, and the growth rate of software business exports turned from negative to positive.

  Specifically, in the first quarter, the total profit of the software industry was 372.6 billion yuan, an increase of 11.6% year-on-year; the export of software business was US$13.1 billion, an increase of 2.4% year-on-year.

  From the perspective of segments, information technology service revenue has maintained double-digit growth. In the first quarter, information technology service revenue was 2082 billion yuan, an increase of 11.0% year-on-year, accounting for 66.1% of the industry's revenue. Among them, cloud computing and big data services achieved a total revenue of 354 billion yuan, an increase of 11.1% year-on-year, accounting for 17.0% of information technology service revenue; integrated circuit design revenue was 90.6 billion yuan, an increase of 19.7% year-on-year; and e-commerce platform technology service revenue was 248.2 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year.

  In addition, the growth rate of information security revenue has accelerated. In the first quarter, information security products and services revenue was 48.1 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year.

  From a regional perspective, data shows that in the first quarter, the eastern region, central region, western region and northeastern region increased by 10.6%, 11.8%, 9.9% and 10.9% year-on-year respectively. The eastern region accounted for 84.2% of the total software business revenue in the country, the software business revenue in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region increased by 11.8% year-on-year, and the software business revenue in the Yangtze River Delta region increased by 10.4% year-on-year. (Reporter Guo Qian)

[Editor in charge: Ran Xiaoning]