The market size of embedded software was 25.5 billion yuan in China in 2004. It is expected to reach 55 billion yuan in 2008. The size of enterprise mobile business application market was 7.82 billion yuan in 2004; it is expected to reach 30.65 billion yuan in 2008.

Strong market growth have boosted the demand for talents. At present, the number of talents for 3G applications are less than 10,000 in China. Analysts say the 3G software industry will be short of 500,000 professionals in the future three years.

By People's Daily Online