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he China software industry experienced rapid development during the past two decades since early 1990’s. As one of the knowledge intensive industries, the software industry presents technology learning and product upgrades which contribute to “Late-developing Advantage ” of high tech industry to a large extent.. Up to now, the software industry is mainly driven by demand based on domestic economy restructuring; however, the China software industry has been increasingly involved in international market since the 21st century and presents steady improvement in export performance. This is the result of vast amount of software-related task transferred from developed countries under the background of emerging service business between developed countries and developing countries. This paper is to observe new nature and tendency of software export in multiple aspects as well as the domestic development situation; for the latter part, the paper is to present contrasts between different regions in China, so that the understanding on software industry competitiveness in China can be furthered, which will help us to have more understanding on the factors closely related with industry internationalization in the future