Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") has issued the Administrative Measures for Building Well-known Chinese Software Parks (Draft for Comment) (the "Draft for Comment") to solicit comments from the public by September 28, 2020.
Pursuant to the Draft for Comment, the building of well-known Chinese software parks shall be subject to the application system. The application shall meet five conditions including "definite development and planning objectives of the parks, clear positioning, complete functions and conformity with the relevant state software industry development strategies, planning and action plan requirements". Meanwhile, the Draft for Comment stipulates that the MIIT shall conduct formal examination of parks applying for being identified as well-known software parks to determine whether the parks meet the basic conditions and whether their application materials are complete. If a park passes the examination, the MIIT, the province and the city concerned shall sign the Memorandum of Understanding on the Collaborative Construction of Well-known Chinese Software Park in due time, and the MIIT shall give a reply about the agreement upon the start of construction of the China software park. The Draft for Comment also requires that the parks shall, in close combination with the state strategic arrangements for software development, intensify policy support and resource guarantee, establish and perfect a collaborative key problem tackling and application promotion system of the software industry, speed up the cultivation of leading and backbone enterprises, and improve software industry ecology.