ChinaSoft International Wins MEP's Project of National Environmental Information and Statistics Competence Building

BEIJING, HONG KONG and NEW YORK, May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- ChinaSoft International Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "ChinaSoft International" or the "Group") (HKSE: 354) announced today that it has won in the bidding for Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP)'s Project of "National Environmental Information and Statistics Competence Building – Emission Reduction Application System Supporting Platform and Application Integration". The project will be another ChinaSoft International national integration project to be implemented in the pattern of "application supporting platform + application integration", following its acceptance as an industry-specific application integrator in e-government solutions including government auditing, state-owned assets supervision, agriculture and aviation. This winning represents a major progress of ChinaSoft International in exploring China's environmental protection market, marking its new and key breakthrough in livelihood informatization area.

The project of "National Environmental Information and Statistics Competence Building" is a fundamental but key project in environmental informatization building. According to the plan, the project will build basic informatization network and application systems covering national, provincial, municipal and county-level authorities in environmental protection, serving as a fundamental but holistic project for China to achieve its target in emission reduction of major pollutants and implement the "three systems" including scientific emission reduction indexing system, all-round inspection and monitoring system as well as strict supervision and examination system. It has been approved by National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC), with an estimated investment of USD100 million. With the success in this bidding for emission reduction application supporting platform, ChinaSoft International plans to follow the development thoughts of integrating the existing services system, supporting new application system and adapting to future development needs, and aims to "unify planning, standards, operation and management" in informatization of environmental protection, ultimately realizing the data standardization, precise services, scientific management and resources sharing in emission reduction efforts and thus providing technical support and services for environmental protection authorities at different levels.

"The sector of energy saving and environmental protection has been listed at the top of the seven strategic emerging industries in the country's 12th Five-year Plan, which reflects the realistic needs for emission reduction and improving livelihood. ChinaSoft International is honored to take this opportunity to make its continued contribution to environmental protection," said Dr. Chen Yuhong, Chairman and CEO of ChinaSoft International. "The Group enjoys strong market advantages in e-government related industries. According to a report released by IDC, a well-known third party independent market researching company, ChinaSoft International was a leading provider of e-government solutions, ranked top two for three consecutive years in such market segments as e-government platform, social security and welfare, as well as ranked first for three straight years in quality inspection and auditing. Back in Jan. 2011, the Group won the bidding in another project of environmental information and statistics competency building - building project management system. Now the project is in the design stage and has received good feedback from the leadership team of environmental protection department. Taking advantage of the new winning, ChinaSoft International will, based on its 10-year-long experience in implementing large projects, build up industry application supporting platform by using proprietary IPR platform of ResourceOne as the core component, in order to drive the Group's in-depth development in environmental protection informatization.

About ChinaSoft International:

ChinaSoft International Limited, "CSI" (354.HK), is a global Information technology service company rooted in China with end to end service capability. The major verticals we cover are: Government and Manufacturing, Finance and Banking, Telecommunications and High-Tech. The Services we offer include: IT consulting, IT technical service solution and IT outsourcing service. CSI has reached annual revenue over 1.6 billion RMB with more than 10,000 employees located worldwide, including 25 cities in China, Princeton, NJ and Seattle, WA in the US, as well as Tokyo in Japan and London in England. CSI has achieved 57% service revenue CARG over the past eight years.