Pudong New Area
With an aggressive goal to turn into the heart of Shanghai’s and even the country’s outsourcing business, the Pudong New Area makes great effort to develop himself into a place with the best outsourcing environment, which would be an irresistible attraction for countless outsourcing firms and talent, an excellent architect of competitiveness, and an outstanding creator of opportunities.

2010 will be such an important landmark that the Pudong New Area will have turned its aims into reality. Firstly, it plans to achieve annual turnover of 70 billion Yuan in software and information outsourcing and an annual turnover of $1 billion in offshore outsourcing. Secondly, 50 software firms each with an annual turnover of over 100 million, 60 biomedicine R&D outsourcing firms, and 30 firms offering financial services outsourcing will have become a part of this area. Last but not least, it plans to have a highly effective industrial development platform.

The Shanghai Outsourcing Research Center which is created by various levels of government in the purpose of making a plan for China’s outsourcing industry, drawing up a national standard and working out an industry report, made its final settlement in Pudong at the end of 2007.

Changning
Changning district, with an area of 37.2 sq km, locates in the downtown area, and it is well-known to all as the Hongqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone, one of the earliest national-level development zones in Shanghai that focus on modern service.

Changning has an ideal transportation system. On the one hand, there lies the Hongqiao International Airport. On the other hand, the under-constructed Hongqiao transportation hub will connect with the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity Railway, the proposed Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train, and other expressways, roads and the airport.

Having got the name of the China outsourcing pilot district, Changning is qualified enough to enjoy the fame such as the Shanghai Multimedia Center, Shanghai White Cat Huigu Information Center and Airport- related Economic Center specifically for outsourcing.

Companies in this district do extraordinarily well in IT offshore outsourcing, and a steady climb in engineering design, financial back office, digital games and outsourcing of other professional services. Many important corporates do business in this district, including Shanghai DGT Information Systems, one of China’s top 25 software-outsourcing firms.

As is named by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Changning is a comprehensive model district for the development and utilization of national information resources. It will take the advantage of information technology to reach a new height in its outsourcing industry and invite more firms to join in.

Its target is to create a good investment environment, especially effective and open government services, fast flow of traffic, logistics, capital and information.

Luwan
Luwan district lies in the north part of the Shanghai city, covering an area of 7.5 sq km, and is next to the Huangpu River which is the future location of the corporate halls for the Shanghai Expo 2010.

Luwan is rich in cultural heritage, and has an advanced traffic system, complete infrastructure and facilities. It’s a place where gathers more 100 of the Fortune 500 enterprises and where lies the regional headquarters to numerous multinationals. Over 20 outsourcing firms, with an annual turnover exceeds 100 million each, settle in this district. And six of the top 20 business process outsourcing firms have a presence here.

The district set its sight to build two clusters, one of which lying in the north aims to deal with high-end outsourcing corporate headquarters and the other of which in the middle and south is to deal with the cooperation of high-end outsourcing firms. It also set its sight to attract three kinds of outsourcing forms: leading outsourcing firms in their special segments; headquarter-type outsourcing firms with the functions of management, settlement and outsourcing; knowledge-intensive outsourcing firms with big investment in human capital, strong innovation and high interaction with clients.

And it attaches great importance to the four fields, i.e. information technology outsourcing, mainly system integration, development and operation; business process outsourcing of professional services such as human resources, banking and accountancy; business process outsourcing of productive services such as logistics, settlement and agency; and knowledge outsourcing of design and R&D services such as construction design, advertisement design.

Finally, it set its sight to build four outsourcing model centers: Shanghai International Information Service Outsourcing Center; Shanghai Outsourcing Standardization Model Center; Shanghai Outsourcing Intellectual Property Rights Model Center, and Shanghai Human Resources Outsourcing Model Center.

Caohejing New Technology Development Zone
Caohejing Development Zone was designated one of the model districts of Shanghai by the Ministry of Commerce in November 2006. This reputation comes without any question. Caohejing Development Zone has spared no effort to push the outsourcing industry forward, an industry that would bring about substantial opportunities. And also, outsourcing, one of the essential elements in modern service flourishes in the zoon with the further-deepening of economic globalization and the adjustment in global strategies by multinationals.

Caohejing avail itself of the favorable government policies, industrial cluster, complete infrastructure and abundant resources to carry out its outsourcing framework in which information technology outsourcing as well as research and development design has been paid special attention.

Caohejing will go on with the development of the outsourcing industry during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10). The outsourcing, especially global offshore outsourcing, will be taken as one of the zone’s major tasks. The zone has not only always been ready to give a hand to the companies in the zone with more global outsourcing services and to enlarge their services in scale, but also made effort to revise the pattern of the zone’s economic growth and improve its strength.

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