China is celebrating her one-month countdown to Beijing Olympics, with the predominant accomplishment of Chinese women’s tennis in Wimbledon, we have the sufficient reasons to make the world convince that China athlete team will surly perform splendidly in this summer. Not only what we would achieve in the sport-related events, but also in the realms of economy, such as outsourcing service.

According to the recent news from Xinhua net, attributed to China’s market potential, rich labor resource, and continuous improvement in infrastructure, China is experiencing the rapid economic development of outsourcing service in the era of international industrial transfer.

Furthermore, the articles from the Economy Times tells us that influenced by the economic slowdown in the United States, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector is growing and cashing in on the opportunity of more business. For the BPO sector, the US slowdown is the melting in the pot to look for more business in terms of opportunity. BPOVIA is one of the industry leading companies, which hold the chance.

With the booming demands overseas, obviously, as the statistics demonstrates, including ITO (Information Technology Outsourcing) and BPO, China undertook outsourcing services valued at 2 billion U.S dollars in 2007. Of all outsourcing enterprises, 14.2 percent of enterprises have received the Capability Maturity Model Integration III Certification. More than 30 million employees work in service outsourcing enterprises, among which over 250,000 are junior college or college graduates. The staff from BPOVIA are all graduated from prominent universities, and many of them own the international education background.

Accounting for more than 60 percent of total outsourcing services, information technology outsourcing services was the major part of China’s outsourcing industry in 2007. In addition, basic technology service and system application service are the major part of China’s ITO. Comparing with ITO, supply chain management and business process operation are major parts of China’s BPO. BPOVIA is the company which provides the service both on ITO and BPO.

As the trend of a large number of U.S ITO and BPO sectors are turning their eyes to other economies and non-US geographies to fill more space and the models of successfully-run Indian medium sized enterprises, we can optimistically estimate that there would be scores of Bangalore appearing in China. For example, BPOVIA, headquartered in Nanjing, China, largely extend its clients and promote its service, during the recession of the U.S economy.

However, we should not neglect the problems on the imbalance development of outsourcing service. Outsourcing contracts in Jiangsu, Guangdong, Beijing, Fujian, Shanghai, and other places are worth more than 100 million U.S. dollars. They account for two-thirds of total outsourcing services. Fourteen outsourcing service bases assume 80.1% of the entire nation’s outsourcing services. What’ more, China’s main contract countries and regions are the United States and Japan, and the outsourcing industry is mainly concentrated in the information transmission, computer services and software industries, making up 53 percent. Meanwhile, manufacturing services accounted for 30.7 percent of total outsourcing services. The development of other service outsourcing industries lags behind. Moreover, foreign-invested enterprises are the main force undertaking outsourced services. Thus, it will cost us a long period to build a balanced-developing outsourcing service market and overtake the competitors from other countries. BPOVIA has established an excellent role model to the industry, which is devoted to provide ubiquitous service, with its unique work team and universal spirits.

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The Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China to commemorate the Chinese patriotic poet Qu Yuan who lived in the Warring States Period (475 – 221 BC). The traditional customs on that day are racing boats in the shape of dragons and eating zong zi.

Served as the Minister of the Zhou Emperor, Qu Yuan was a wise and articulate man who was loved by the common people. He did much to fight against the rampant corruption that plagued the court, and thereby earning the envy and fear of other officials. When he urged the emperor to avoid conflict with the Qin Kingdom, the officials persuaded the Emperor to have him removed from service. In his exile, he traveled, taught and wrote for several years. Hearing that the Zhou had been defeated by the Qin, he fell into despair and threw himself into the Milou River.

The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Qu Yuan who drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. The Chinese also throw zong zi, a kind of cooked rice dumplings covered by bamboo leaves into the water in the hope that the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later turned into the custom of racing boats and eating zong zi on that day.

The celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival in Chinese tradition is also considered as a way to protect people from evil and disease for the rest of the year. This is done by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil’s nemesis, Zhong Kui. There is an old Chinese saying that if one manages to stand an egg on its end at midnight, he will be a lucky dog in the following year.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a public holiday in China and all the staff in BPOVIA will have a day off on June 9, 2008 (Monday) to celebrate the Festival.

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As the leading virtual assistant provider based in China, we got a lot inquiries about the comparison of our virtual assistant service with our competitor from India: GetFriday. BPOVIA virtual assistant team did online research of BPOVIA and GetFriday. With all due respect to our competitor, BPOVIA gains a comprehensive competitive edge against GetFriday.
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Nanjing,China,May 23,2008–Considering the increasing number of demands from our clients in Australia, we opened a direct dial hotline to facilitate the call process. By dialing +61 3 9018 7855, potential clients can call us for a free trial of the services we provide.

Our company, BPOVIA Ltd based in China, is one of the top six outsourcing companies in the world. Headquartered in Nanjing, we are a pioneering virtual assistant and BPO service provider in the country.

By selecting our virtual assistant services, clients can have their virtual assistants carry out all the non-core business activities. Therefore they are in a position to offload complicated and repetitive components of their business processes, greatly cut down expenses in office renting, staff welfare and labor cost and increase the efficiency and flexibility of their businesses.

Regarding small and medium sized enterprises as our target clients, we provide our clients with seamless one-stop solutions. Currently, more than 90% of our clients come from the US, followed by the UK, Canada and Australia. Among them, Australia in particular, stands to benefit greatly from hiring virtual assistants in China.

In addition to such benefits as cutting down expenses and improving efficiency and flexibility of their businesses, clients in Australia enjoy the advantage of having their virtual assistants in China work in lock-step with themselves. As there is only two hours difference in time between the two countries, with our virtual assistants working almost at the same time, clients in Australia are able to remarkably improve their work efficiency to gain more competitive edge for their companies.

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Amid inflation at a decade-high level, China saw a record high of 22% increase in its retail sales in April from a year earlier, as consumers are paying more for basic necessities and are more willing to spend in the face of rising inflation.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, sales of foodstuffs and beverages climbed 25.3% year-on-year, with spending on grain and edible oil surging by 36.3%.

Paying more for daily necessities, consumers are also encouraged to spend more on durable and luxury goods. The April report demonstrates that sales in furniture, automobiles, gold and silver jewelry increased 37.2%, 25.7% and 41% respectively. Behind the robust growth is the Chinese people’s increasing willingness to consume in a high-inflation environment.

China remains a huge potential market, especially its consumer market, as the Chinese people nowadays grow stronger in terms of their purchasing power and their willingness to consume. For business people and enterprises interested in exploring the Chinese market, BPOVIA Ltd based in China, with its professional consultation and virtual assistance services, is always ready to provide clients with seamless experiences in the process.

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At about half past two yesterday afternoon when we were working busily in our office at 40 floor, we felt the tremor of the building, or rather tremor from the earth. The entire building started to sway to and fro, back and forth, which brought us a strong sense of dizziness. Several minutes later, we managed to get down to the ground and joined the crowd waiting for the earthquake to calm down.

Fortunately, the quake died off about ten minutes later. When we went back to our office safe and sound, our technical team manager Jerry Xu was proud to announce that none of our servers, databases or company network infrastructureor was affected even in the slightest degree. “We have always regarded stability of our servers and company network infrastructureor as the top priority for our company. Only by guarantying this can we provide our clients with the most reliable services,” he said.

Hours later, word came that the epicenter Sichuan province in Southwest China had suffered gravely from the 7.8-magnitude quake. The powerful earthquake had claimed nearly 10,000 lives till this morning and most victims are in Sichuan. Hearing this tragic news, James Huang, our CEO and founder of BPOVIA Ltd, decided immediately to donate $1000 relief money to the disaster area hit by the quake. “Companies should not concern themselves with making profits only. Do something for the society is also necessary,” said James.

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Compared with the fourth quarter last year, sales of smartphone in the Chinese market in the first quarter saw a 4.8% growth.

The average price of a smartphone in China is around 2,470 yuan. Compared with high-end ones, low-end smartphones enjoy much wider popularity among buyers. And smartphone produced by Nokia and Motorola took up 85.9% of the market share.

In terms of sales volume, the market saw a record of 8.24 million units in the first quarter, accounting for 19.1% of all types of cellphones sold on the domestic market. And sales revenue stood at 20.4 billion yuan in the first three months, registering an increase of 7.6% over the same period last year.

The Chinese consumer market is in full swing in recent years, which is to a large extent attributable to the rapidly developing economy of the country and growing purchasing power of the Chinese people. Such a robust and huge potential market naturally attracts business people around the world like a strong magnet. For any businessman who is interested in the Chinese market and looking for assistance to facilitate business processes in the country, BPOVIA Ltd based in China, with its excellent virtual assistants and professional consultation services, can always be the source.

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The first direct air route between Beijing and Seattle, the commercial and technology center in the north-western Pacific, will be launched on June 9th by Hainan Airlines. This will be the fastest air link between China and the US.

The new route will be operated by Airbus A330-200s, each of which contains 36 business classes and 186 economic classes, meeting passengers’ different demands.

The direct route will shorten the original 16-hour flight to 11 hours, making travels on the two sides of the Pacific more convenient. Flights are scheduled to operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Hainan Airlines will have return tickets with the competitive price of RMB2580 on sale from June 9th to June the 30th and single tickets from Beijing to Seattle priced at RMB3990 during June 9th and October 31st.

On May 8th, Hainan Airlines signed an agreement with the well-known NBA of the US to jointly promote the popularity of the new air route and the legendary player of NBA Gary Payton is invited as the ambassador of the Seattle line.

This air route will provide overseas business people with much easier access to China to explore its markets and search for business opportunities. In the same way, BPOVIA Ltd based in China connects our clients with the country by offering reliable and professional consultations and virtual assistant services.

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According to a report by Beijing-based CCID Consulting, sales of flat screen TVs in China soared 71% year-on-year to 2.98 million sets in the first quarter.

In terms of sales volume, Samsung ranked first in the liquid crystal field, followed by Hisense and Skyworth. Sales of 32-inch liquid crystal flat screen TVs took up less than 35% of the total while sales of 40-inch and above sets exceeded 35%. And it is estimated that flat screen TV sales will total 9.26 million sets this year, 11.57 million in 2009 and 15.71 million in 2010.
Regarding revenues, sales of flat screen TVs grew to 60.6% year-on-year to 24.64 billion yuan.

“The surge owes much to the upcoming 2008 Olympics as consumers brought forward their purchase plans and favored bigger sets,” CCID senior analyst Tian Xiaona.

China’s consumer market is rapidly expanding due to the increasingly strong purchasing power of the people. This unfolds great opportunities for business people world wide. For all those interested in exploring the Chinese market, BPOVIA Ltd based in China can always be the source. With our talented team offering consultation and virtual assistant services, our clients can expect the most professional services in the business process outsourcing circle.

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According to statistics released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China imported 103,200 vehicles in the first quarter this year, a 74.54% increase year on year.

A total of 28,534 off-road vehicles with 3.0-liter engines or above, with an average unit price of $40,900, were imported in the first quarter, soaring 262.57% compared with the same period in the previous year.

In addition, the country also imported 16,624 cars with 3.0-liter engines or above during the period, up 75.28% year on year. The average unit price reached a higher $57,900. Imports of luxury auto brands such as Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Volvo and the latecomer Infiniti, increased a sharp 82% in the first quarter.

“Buying imported vehicles as a second option is a growing trend among affluent people,” said Xu Di, director of marketing department at China Automobile Trading Co Ltd.

In terms of sales, a Guangzhou-based Audi dealership witnessed a 230% year-on-year sales growth in the first quarter. Huang Weiwen, marketing director of the distributor, pointed out the luxury car market is slightly affected by economic depression and high-end consumers’ consumption temptation is also not very seriously impacted by the gloomy stock and property markets.

For businessmen around the globe, China, with the strong purchasing power of consumers, means a huge potential market to tap. To facilitate your businesses in the country, BPOVIA Ltd is always ready to provide you with the most professional services in consultation and virtual assistants.

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