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Software Changing China -- Zsoft Outsourcing Summit Held in Beijing

Posted on: Thursday, 22 December 2005, 09:00 CST

BEIJING, Dec. 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 'Software Changing China -- Zsoft Outsourcing Summit' was successfully held in Beijing, China, by Zhongguancun Software Association on December 22, 2005. This summit was sponsored by the National Software Export Center, the joint association of the BUAA Science Park and Zhongguancun Science Park. The summit was also supported by the Department of High and New Technology Development and Industrialization of the Ministry of Science and Technology of PRC, UN Industrial Subcontract Center in Beijing and Administration Committee of the Z-Park.

'Software Changing China' was the major theme highlighting the need to provide services to assist Euro-American enterprises to outsource their software projects and services to potential partners in China. Zhongguancun Software Association (Zsoft) provided an Offshore Business Service Platform in this summit to help any enterprise and organization outside China invest their resources wisely, to help establish their businesses in China with a single contact. More than 5 American companies brought eight projects to this summit. They had one-on-one business discussions with multiple potential Chinese software development companies, and had site tours to selected Chinese software development companies. Another main theme for this summit was to take part in visits and have discussions on outsource software projects. Also, Zsoft wanted to ''transform human resources into human capital and transform education achievements into productivity.'' At the same time, making the contracted items as an occasion, Zsoft could invite about 50 domestic software-outsourcing enterprises to the conference and illustrate the urgent need of outsourcing talents, the demand status and employment requirements in China. Zsoft also invited academic leaders and employment directors from about 100 computer colleges to hold discussions with key human resource major- domos of outsourcing enterprises on the training issues at the conference.

Yu Bin, the director of Zhongguancun Software Association, said that the software outsourcing development in China was hurdled by four major obstacles. The first obstacle was intellectual property. Second, many foreign software companies have prejudice views on Chinese companies, with impressions of many foreigners' on China remaining from the 1980s. Third, China lacks senior software talents. Many senior talents just stayed abroad. The talents cultivated by the domestic universities failed to meet the needs of the work. Fourth, the scale of most domestic software outsourcing enterprises is comparatively small.

The industry agreement signed by Zhongguancun Software Association and the software outsourcing enterprises, said Yu Bin, dismissed the doubts of the contractors about intellectual property. It founded the expert committee of outsourcing to the US, and helped the software outsourcing enterprises to improve their business capability. It also promoted the Zhongguancun's overall brand strategy, and made it more competitive in the international market. It established ten communication services abroad, hiring high-level American experts as the communication directors for expansion of the international market for Zhongguancun. He also said that three outsourcing orders had been introduced from the US, which valued more than one million dollars. In the next five to ten years, the value of Zhongguancun software outsourcing would amount to twenty billion dollars.

Yu Bin said that although there were more than 5,000 software enterprises in Zhongguancun, the shortfall of talents in the area of outsourcing software to Japan was up to more than 5,000, which was less than that in the area of outsourcing software to the US, with less than a 10% supply rate. Moreover, the shortfall increased at the rate of 50% every year. The orders that value twenty billion dollars would be gained in the next few years. However, occupying such a market share means that it needs one million talents in software outsourcing. Otherwise, it will be quite difficult to reach the goal of twenty billion dollars.

Yu Bin said that taking into consideration the shortage of talents in the domestic software industry, Zhongguancun Software Association established a service platform for the software outsourcing talents to train for occupations, and carried out ''Order-Oriented Training.'' It had successfully provided ten software outsourcing enterprises with professional and practical talents. He added that the training in pairs with colleges would foster one million professional software talents for Zhongguancun in the next few years.

Finally, college representatives, enterprise leaders and training workshop representatives presented at the summit started the Zhongguancun's international software talents supply chain. They organized the visit of Zhongguancun's excellent software outsourcing enterprises for the colleges, and arranged a dialogue between the Zhongguancun software outsourcing enterprises and the students joining the training associated with colleges. In the dialogue, they recalled their true feelings of working in Zhongguancun software outsourcing enterprises after internationalized training. These actions set up a job-seeking bridge for college graduates, with access to the emerging industry, Zhongguancun software outsourcing enterprises, and gave them a zero-distance contact with software outsourcing enterprises to understand the need for talents. It was also an opportunity for the one hundred college presidents to discuss the innovative mode of ''training education'' together.

For more information, please contact: Lu Jun, Secretary General, Zhongguancun Software Association Tel: +86-10-8232-8001

Zhongguancun Software Association

CONTACT: Lu Jun, Secretary General of Zhongguancun Software Association,+86-10-8232-8001

Source: PRNewswire

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