13 April 2004 11:43
Dalian to promote software industry
Author: Promoting the rapid development of the software industry will be a priority for the port city of Dalian in
the coming years, said the city's mayor. "We will provide a better environment and qualified professionals to
IT vendors and external service providers (ESPs)," Mayor Xia Deren said on Monday at a seminar on Software &
Information Services Outsourcing, co-sponsored by the Dalian Software Park and US-based Gartner, a global IT research
and consulting company. Since the establishment of the Dalian Software Park, Dalian has been targeting the world market,
trying to attract the world's top 500 enterprises to establish their data and service centres in the city. So far
more than 20 of them, including GE, Accenture and Nokia, have offices in the park, with business covering Japan,
Republic of Korea and Russia. Xia said the municipal government says developing the IT industry is one way to upgrade
its traditional industries in the country's drive to revitalize the economy in Northeast China. According to the
country's blueprint, Dalian will be built into an international navigation centre, featuring petrochemicals,
shipbuilding, equipment manufacturing and an IT industry. Last year the city planned a 15-square-kilometre project to
enlarge the software park along its South Lushun Road, a scenic area in the city. "We present the best environment
for the software industry, especially for offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) in our city," Xia said. A
training programme to provide a lower-cost, yet qualified, workforce for ESPs is being offered to thousands of IT
professionals in several institutes throughout the city.
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