On December 12, 2018, the 10th Shanghai Software Innovation Forum was held in Jinjiang Grand Hall. Leaders of governmental authorities, such as, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Municipal Development & Reform Commission, and Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce attended the meeting and announced the list of “2018 Shanghai Competitive Software Enterprises”. The list was released on the full-page of Wenhui Daily that day, and CASCO was ranked fifth with excellent software strength.

Based on the T/SSIA 0001-2018 Specification for Evaluation of Software Enterprise Core Competitiveness, thousands of software enterprises in Shanghai have been comprehensively evaluated from various dimensions, such as, enterprise scale, business performance, research and development capabilities, innovation achievements and quality assurance.

As an all-round rail transit control system integrator, CASCO has vigorously promoted technological innovation and independent research and development, increased investment in research and development, actively cooperated with relevant universities to develop industry-university-research cooperation, and established an academician expert workstation, to focus on software strength and provide advanced, safe and reliable system solutions. While steadily enhancing its own strength, CASCO attaches great importance to the construction of quality management system and intellectual property system, promotes independent innovation and rapid transformation of scientific and technological achievements with intellectual property rights, and effectively drives the rapid growth of enterprises. At present, CASCO has more than 200 patents and software copyrights, and its intellectual property covers all major products in various fields, such as national railways, urban rail transit, intercity railways, and tramways.

This selection not only represents full recognition of CASCO’s comprehensive strength from Shanghai Government, but also objectively verifies the core competitiveness that CASCO has built and cultivated in the software industry for many years, and has strengthened its confidence and determination to continuously strengthen scientific and technological innovation and achievements transformation in the future.