Innovation and inspiration are creating 'green GDP'

By combining with hardware manufacturing, services and the creative industry, the fast-growing software sector in Beijing's Zhongguancun is creating a great deal of "green GDP", said local government officials.

Last year the city's software and IT services sector contributed an incremental value of 175 billion yuan ($28 billion) to the economy, an average annual growth rate of 20 percent since 2000.

In the first three months of this year, the sector grew 12.9 percent year-on-year, the fastest among all the service sectors in the city.