Although China's IC design industry started late, with huge market demand, stable economic development and favorable policy environment and many other advantages, it has become the main driving force of global IC design industry market growth. From the sales of IC design industry, China's IC design industry has maintained a rapid development trend for many years.
In recent years, while the overall scale of IC industry expands rapidly, it also promotes the common development of chip design, component manufacturing, package testing and other sub-industries. Especially under the drive of national policy and market demand, China's IC design industry has been growing rapidly, the number of enterprises has been increasing, and the industry has entered a new stage of rapid development. Chip design industry has become one of the most dynamic fields in the domestic semiconductor industry.
Data show that the sales scale of China's IC design industry increased from 194.6 billion yuan in 2017 to 459.69 billion yuan in 2021, with a compound annual growth rate of 24%. It is expected that the sales scale of China's IC design industry will further increase to 498.96 billion yuan in 2022.
In 2021, the sales volume of IC design in The Yangtze River Delta region of China reached 238.33 billion yuan, up 49.0% year on year, accounting for the largest proportion of sales, accounting for 51.8% of the whole industry sales; The sales volume in The Beijing-Tianjin Bohai Rim region was 98.43 billion yuan, up 76.7% year-on-year, accounting for 21.4%.
The sales volume in the Pearl River Delta region was 93.62 billion yuan, down 36.9% year on year, mainly due to the sanctions imposed by the United States on major integrated circuit design companies in the region. The sales volume of IC design in central and western regions was 57.37 billion yuan, up 40.3% year on year, accounting for 12.5%.
And, according to data from 2021 to 120 billion yuan in Shanghai sales became the largest city in IC design industry in China, Beijing, shenzhen three before entering the industry, hangzhou, wuxi and nanjing in the IC design industry sales are more than 30 billion yuan, xi 'an, chengdu, wuhan, zhuhai's sales are more than 10 billion yuan.
In addition, in recent years, as the basis of national information security and electronic information industry, the attention of the integrated circuit industry is increasing, and the domestic policy environment is further getting better. The government has issued a series of supportive and encouraging plans, policies and regulations or guidance opinions, and invested a large number of social resources to provide financial, tax, technology, talent and other support for China's IC industry, which is conducive to the development and technological upgrading of the IC industry.
In January 2022, issued by the State Council on "difference" notice of the digital economy development planning is put forward, aimed to sensors, quantum information, network communications, integrated circuits, the key software, big data, artificial intelligence, chain blocks, new materials, and other areas of the strategic perspective, giving full play to the advantages of the socialist system in our country, new the sports system, very large scale advantage in the market, We will improve basic research and development capabilities in digital technologies.
The rapid growth in the number and scale of semiconductor products and chip companies also means that the demand for talents such as chip designers is increasing sharply. In view of the fact that there may only be 1,000-2,000 excellent IC designers graduating from the country each year, integrated circuit was officially set as a first-level discipline at the end of December 2020.
In the past two years, some colleges and universities have accelerated the establishment of integrated circuit colleges. In April last year, the School of Integrated Circuits of Tsinghua University was established to accelerate the training of high-level talents in short supply of integrated circuits. In July last year, huazhong University of Science and Technology announced the inauguration of the School of Future Technology and the School of Integrated Circuits, and Peking University held the inaugural ceremony of the School of Integrated Circuits.
With the development of integrated circuit market, the structure of China's integrated circuit industry chain is being optimized and perfected. The gradual improvement of the IC industry chain provides capacity guarantee and technical support for China's IC design industry and promotes the rapid development of the industry.