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Indeed, why? But hey, wait a moment - it is NOT. India's software exports are around 55-60 billion dollars. China's software exports account for less than 10 billion dollars!
China is far ahead of India in manufacturing and infrastructure, though. No one is disputing that.
Software industry isn't just about exports/outsourcing. China in fact has a more well-rounded software industry comparing to India and that's based mostly on internal demand which can never be outsourced, ironically because we do not speak much English.
About a decade ago, roughly when Zhu Rongji went to India and said China has hardware and India has software, there was a lot of excitement in China about adopting the Indian model of software export/outsourcing. But nowadays more and more people are realizing a strong internal demand rather than exports should drive the Chinese software industry.
Even in the export sector, Chinese software export is much larger than $10 billion when embedded software is factored in. People may not realize this, but Huawei is China's biggest software company judging by revenue of its software business.