The Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Information Industry, will hold an electronic governance technologies and application conference from Aug. 3 to 5 in Beijing.

Shi Guangliang, vice secretary-general of the conference, said here Wednesday that eGovChina 2004 would include forums, symposia,an exhibition and other events.

The focus of development for e-governance in China has already shifted from infrastructure building to application and service providing, Shi said.

Experts estimated that China has an e-governance-related market valued at 40 billion yuan (4.8 billion US dollars), including 14 billion yuan worth of software products and service.

Shi said that the exhibition will show network, audio and visual and memory products, as well as high-speed broadband telecommunication technologies.

The organizers will also set up an on-line exhibition at the official website, www.egovchina.org.

This is the third such conference since it was launched in 2002.