Background
Guo Xianchen was born in 1967, China.
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Guo Xianchen was born in 1967, China.
He graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology with an MS in computer science in 1991.
After graduation Guo Xinchen joined the company, then called China Computer Software and Technology Service Corporation as a network engineer. At the age of 23, Guo was filled with zest for software development in China: ‘I believed that ChinaSoft was all about the software development industry in China at that time. Fully staffed with brilliant, talented people who work on a lot of projects, it must be a great platform providing great oppor- tunities’. Just as he expected, ChinaSoft indeed turned out to be a launching pad for Guo.
Equipped with solid knowledge and skills in computer intelligence, network adminis- tration, multimedia communication, databases and data mining, Guo quickly became a project leader at ChinaSoft and was appointed to chair the Golden Taxation project for the National Revenue Bureau, a key national project sponsored by the State Planning Committee with a grant of RMB150 million. His team successfully developed the National Revenue Comprehensive Management System, which has been widely used by revenue agencies at various levels and won the award for National Key New Product in 1999. In the same year, ChinaSoft also won a contract with the Bank of China to provide over 20 000 Microsoft desktops and servers, which became the first big break for Microsoft in China. Guo also chaired the development of the ODPS processing system and ChinaSoft office automation system, which garnered many awards from the Ministry of Electronics Industry, the China Software Association, and the National Economics and Trade Committee. The ChinaSoft office automation system has been widely used in the revenue agencies and has a market share of over 85 percent.
Guo’s approaches to the promotion of technology innovation at ChinaSoft are ‘to have what others don’t and ‘to have something different from what others do’. Under Guo’s leadership, ChinaSoft developed a series of domestic Linux operating system products with independent intellectual property and thus filled a number of gaps in this field in China. Guo’s emphasis on innovation and the application of new technology resulted not only in great social benefits but also made enormous economic gains for the company. From a company with only 21 employees and a registered capital of RMB300000, ChinaSoft evolved into a company with over 2600 employees and a registered capital of RMB101 million as of 2005. Their business scope has been expanded to include the development of operating systems, embedded, financial, and commercial security, military applications, industrial and commercial management, and machine translation software, digital products, information security products, and office automation products. It also provides software outsourcing, localization, and technical consulting, training, and services.