Microsoft China, signed a contract with Wuxi government on Sunday, planning to open an IT training centre in Wuxi to turn out skilled professional to work in the emerging IT industry in this city. To offer professional IT training to 10,000 students a year in the centre, Wuxi New District the city’s high-tech zone will provide infrastructure, while Microsoft will bring the technical platform and program. All the effort is committed to developing the city into the country’s leading outsourcing centre, according to Yang weize, Party chief in Wuxi.

Wuxi’s official, who went to India’s Bangalore last month to seek cooperation with the outsourcing companies there, is confident with this project, and plans to have 100 companies providing international outsourcing services and exporting software by 2010. They expect each company will employ at least 2,000 staff and will have an export volume of $30 million.

Yang said they believe Microsoft’s experience will help them develop a large pool of IT professionals; and Wuxi’s solid industry foundation and overseas business network will help it develop a strong outsourcing industry.

Zhang Yanqin, head of Microsoft (China), said the company is willing to help Wuxi achieve the outsourcing goal.

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Microsoft China and the Wuxi government have signed a deal to establish the training program. According to the deal, the city’s hi-tech zone Wuxi New District will provide infrastructure for the training center and Microsoft technical platform and program. The center is expected to give professional IT training to 10,000 students each year.

Wuxi, with its solid industry foundation and overseas business network, plans to have 100 companies providing international outsourcing services and exporting software by 2010. Each will employ at least 2,000 staff and will have an export volume of $30 million. And the city has been active in seeking cooperation with foreign outsourcing companies.

“We are delighted to have Microsoft as a partner to help us in our endeavor,” said Yang Weize, Party chief in Wuxi. “We believe Microsoft’s experience will help us develop a large pool of IT professionals in Wuxi,” he said. And Zhang Yaqin, head of Microsoft China said the company is willing to help Wuxi to achieve its outsourcing goal.

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