China, Germany to jointly develop software industry
( 2003-10-14 21:37) (Xinhua)
China and Germany have launched an inter-governmental collaboration in a bid
to jointly develop high- end software products.
The Sino-German Joint Software Institute, a new initiative of China's
Ministry of Science and Technology and Germany's Federal Ministry of Education
and Research (FMER), is the first international high-technology research body
co-sponsored by the Chinese government.
David Zhang, director of the institute, said its mission was to study and
design software strategies for the Chinese software industry, to develop
advanced software for telecommunications technology, and to "incubate" and
support software start-ups.
The 30-member research team would focus on operational systems and middleware
for a parallel processing next-generation central processing unit, software for
mobile communications and multimedia mobile applications, and a common platform
for software interface and management, Zhang said.
Zhang said his institute, jointly funded by the two governments, would bid
for China's national high-technology projects, or 863 Program, FMER projects,
European Union Sixth Framework projects and other projects mandated by the
private sector.
Meanwhile, he said, the institute is going to closely cooperate with the
well-known Fraunhofer Association, which promotes technological
industrialization, and other German research organizations.
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