China's software, IT service industry expands in first three quarters

China's software and information technology (IT) service industry registered double-digit growth in revenue in the first nine months of this year, official data showed on Friday.

The combined revenue of the software sector jumped by 13 percent year on year to 11.11 trillion yuan (about 1.57 trillion U.S. dollars) during this period, while total profits rose by 8.7 percent to 1.44 trillion yuan, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

In the first nine months, the sector's exports amounted to 45.94 billion U.S. dollars -- up 6.6 percent year on year.

Total revenue of the information technology service sector increased by 14.3 percent year on year to around 7.64 trillion yuan, contributing 68.8 percent of the total revenue of this industry.

Specifically, the revenue of cloud computing and big data services surged 13.7 percent year on year to 1.16 trillion yuan in the same period. ■