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Software to offer new momentum for economy

The software industry will be a new engine for China's economy as the country takes advantage of the Internet boom to transform itself into a coding power, a senior industry official said on Wednesday. "As China grows ... into a strong high-tech country, the software sector will become a major economic growth source," said Chen Wei, director-general of the department of software and information services at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.