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Dalian Software Park (), also called DLSP, is an industrial zone, created in 1998 in the western suburbs of Dalian City,
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, where many of the world's large and medium-sized IT-related companies have set up shop to do software development and information services. It is part of Dalian Hi-tech Zone in the broader sense. While American and European companies typically have gone to
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and other cities in
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because of the English language capability, Japanese companies have gone to Dalian and other cities in China due to the Japanese language capability. DLSP is owned by Dalian Software Park Co., Ltd., which was invested and established by
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and is a professional service provider in business park development, management and operation. By the end of 2009, there were over 500 enterprises in the Dalian Software Park, 41 percent of which are foreign-funded. There are 37 Fortune 500 companies including IBM, HP, Accenture, Panasonic, Sony, Hitachi, NTT, Oracle, AVAYA, NEC, Fidelity, BT etc. In 2009, Dalian Software Park realized an annual sales income of RMB 20.2 billion, with an export value of US$0.86 billion. Dalian is one of China's 11 "National Software Industry Bases" and one of five "National Software Export Bases." Currently, more than 300 companies, including 32 Global 500 corporations, have offices in the park. The nearest airport,
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, is 10–20 km away from Dalian Software Park. Its nearest national highway is G202.RightSite.asia , Dalian Software Park
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Flow of overseas IT outsourcing

Beginning in the 1980s, many IT companies in the developed world began to take interest in offshore labour markets. IT related work in the
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had been suffering from lack of IT workers and increased cost. The worldwide trend is now moving from domestic outsourcing to overseas
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into countries that have a comparative advantage in labour-intensive business activities. The IT work is not only
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which require
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skills (
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), but also other business work which requires soft skills rather than engineering skills. ( BPO), such as
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and other information services is a major aspect of DLSP's tenant's offshore business.


Launch of Dalian's software industry

Having been the major industrial base of Manchukuo during Japanese colonization, Dalian has a history of foreign investment. Since the early 1980s, Dalian has been a major recipient of Japanese and Korean foreign investment.
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in Dalian began in the early 1980s. To attract economic activity, the municipal government established
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in the northern suburbs and Dalian Hi-tech Zone in the western suburbs for the high-tech industries. During the first half of the 1990s, application software outsourcing from overseas, particularly from
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, has increased. Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology Corp. (DHC), which had derived from Dalian City Computer Center, and Dalian Hisoft Corp. were established in the high-tech zone. They were involved in application software development, outsourced from
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Software Engineering, etc. Since the 1990s Dalian City has emphasized the development of the IT industry, especially in Dalian Hi-tech Zone and Dalian Software Park in the western suburbs near
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. There are Chinese IT companies (such as DHC, hiSoft and
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) and American, European, Indian and Japanese IT companies, such as
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, HP, IBM, Liferay, SAP AG,
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, and Fidelity. Currently, the "
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Software Industry Belt" Plan is proceeding, including Dalian Software Park Phase 2. Dalian has recently become an important center for
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and
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, similar to
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(2007). In another way, Dalian is the forerunner of China's "Re-Development of the Old Industry Bases in Northeast" National Project, which began in 2002. Today, Dalian is the most established information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business processing outsourcing (BPO) city in the PRC and among the top ITO and BPO destinations in the world.


Birth of Dalian Software Park

Dalian Software Park (DLSP) was established in 1998, in the 3 km2 area, in the western
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, near Dalian Hi-tech Zone. It is surrounded by the hills on the three sides and by the
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on the remaining side, and is an academic area where
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are located. Management of the Park is done by Dalian Software Park Co., Ltd., a private enterprise 100 percent owned by one of the three largest real estate developers in Dalian (
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), which is rare in China where all other software parks are managed either directly by local governments or indirectly by government agencies. The company provides professional services, from registration and basic property management to human resource services to assist in the operations of the IT companies. See also " Preferential policies" below. Today, Dalian Software Park is the leading business park management and development company in the PRC. In addition to the park in Dalian, DLSP has developed parks in Wuhan, Suzhou, and Tianjin.


History

Established in 1999, Dalian Software Park is a key part of the development of Dalian, a hub of the international IT industry in China. With an area covering 7.16 square kilometers, Dalian Software Park is one of the ten State-level software industry bases. Its export volume is increasing by 100 percent annually. Over 300 enterprises, including more than 60 foreign companies, have settled their IT business in the park. As it opened officially,
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came to this park to establish their development centers, and later established Dalian Neusoft University of Information.
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( Panasonic) was the first to enter the park, followed by
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and others. American and European companies, such as GE (
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), HP, IBM and
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, came to establish
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and/or BPO centers, mainly to do their Japanese subsidiaries' work. Chinasoft (headquartered in Beijing) and Xinhua were among the first Chinese-owned IT companies. Later, such Chinese-owned IT companies such as iSoftStone (Beijing), New Touch (Shanghai) and Nantian (Shenzhen) also came here. See also " Dalian Software Park Phase 2" below.


Current status

Currently, there are more than 380 companies in Dalian Software Park (a September 2006 survey by Dalian Software Park): *58% Domestic Chinese companies *42% Overseas companies **27% Japanese companies **15% Other Overseas companies (American, European, Korean, Taiwan. Korean, etc.)


Workforce

The IT service work done in Dalian Software Park can be categorized as follows (A 2006 survey by Dalian Software Park): *40% Application software development *30%
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*10% Embedded software development *20% Other, such as
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(PCB) Design, R&D and
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/Video Games Application development is done mostly by the
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school graduates of the universities, while embedded software development requires more technical skills in the areas, such as
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or special hardware. Those workers involved in BPO varies from the middle school graduates for data entry, to the foreign language school graduates for simpler BPO work, and the returnees of overseas studies for inbound or outbound
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/contact center work. To emphasize the importance of information privacy, Dalian City Software Industry Association has recently implemented, in cooperation with Japan Information Processing Development Corporation (JIPDEC), a citywide PIPA (Privacy Information Protection Assessment) program.


Dalian Geography

Dalian City is located in the southern tip of China's northeast region. It is surrounded on the three sides by the
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and Bohai Seas, and is known for a relatively mild climate in this region with otherwise severe winter. Dalian has a metropolitan population of about 6 million. It is the most developed city in the northeast region.


IT Capability and Linguistic Ability

Most of the IT workers come from the engineering schools of the universities in Dalian and other cities in
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. In Dalian, there are
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, Dalian Jiaotong University,
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, and
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Institute of Information which is within the Park. In other cities, there are
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in Shenyang,
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in Changchun, and Harbin Industrial University in Harbin. Workers with English ability come from the various universities where English is predominantly their first foreign language, but they lack the experience of the
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n university graduates with working knowledge of English. There are also the English-speaking returnees of study abroad, typically from U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. French speaking workers are from Dalian University of Foreign Languages (DLUFL, 100 graduates each year), Liaoning Normal University (LNNU, 30 graduates each year) or the returnees of study abroad, typically in France and Quebec, Canada. L'Alliance française, France's worldwide network of French language education, is located at DLUFL. Dalian is particularly unique in the fact that there are many workers with
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ability for the following historical reasons: * The southern half of the present-day Dalian City was a Japanese occupied territory, 1905–1945 *
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was established in 1963 as the center of Japanese studies in China. * Since the late 1980s, many
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and have been employing Japanese speaking Chinese. Another factor contributing to the Japanese language capability in Dalian is the presence of about two million ethnic Koreans, most of whom live in the Northeast. Culturally and linguistically, China's ethnic Koreans are nearly identical to the people in South Korea. Subsequently, they are capable of learning and speaking Japanese with ease.


Preferential Policies

The Dalian municipal government offers generous tax exemptions and subsidies such as
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exemption during the first two years of business establishment and 50 percent tax reduction in the following three years. After this five-year period, the Dalian municipal government will offer a reduced tax rate of 15% rather than the usual 25% for high-tech companies. The preferential policy of Dalian City can be summarized in the following points: *The university graduates who have sought high-tech jobs are given the Dalian City residency rights *Since 2004, the software development companies in Dalian Software Park or Dalian High-Tech Park are allowed to pay reduced amount of contribution to the
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funds (allowance) *The employees of such companies in such locations are given income tax reduction


Transportation

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for details. About 20 minutes by
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from the
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, the major hotels on Renmin Road, or
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Education

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Accommodation

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Local environment

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Dalian Software Park Phase 2

The construction of Dalian Software Park Phase 2 was begun in 2003 as part of the City Government's "Dalian Software Industry Belt Along
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" Project, in a 12 km2 area, immediately west of Dalian Hi-tech Zone. * A joint venture between Ascendas of Singapore and DLSP completed a large office building for occupancy in September 2007 (Dalian Ascendas IT Park) * Neusoft Group is completing its second Neusoft Park office complex in 2008 * A joint venture between DLSP and Shui On Group of Hong Kong will open Dalian Tiandi Software Park and related commercial area in 2009. In September 2007, it was announced at the ceremonies commemorating the start of the construction that Dalian-based
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and Hong Kong-based Shui On Group are to invest a total of 15 billion yuan (US$2 billion) and that the annual revenues of 10 billion yuan (US$1.33 billion) will be generated at the park after the completion of the second phase.


Future


Service outsourcing base along Lüshun North Road

It was announced in June 2007, that a Dalian International Service Outsourcing Base will be created at Dadonggou, on Lüshun North Road, about ten kilometers west of Dalian International Airport.


Expanding to other cities in China

Based on its experience of success so far, Dalian Software Park has decided to build other software parks, in cooperation with the local hi-tech committees: *
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: Wuhan "Optical Valley" Software Park is ready for occupancy since April 2007. Wuhan is in the center of China's population distribution of 13 million. *
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: Suzhou Software Technology Park in Suzhou Hi-Tech Park SND, located in the western suburbs of Suzhou City, on
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, nearer to Wuxi International Airport, will be ready for occupancy from December 2007. *
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: Tianjin Binghai Service Outsourcing Base, to be built on the Bohai Sea side of Tianjin Economic & Development Area (TEDA), will be ready for occupancy from December 2008. DLSP is also aggressively seeking to expand into other regions in China.


IT-related companies and organizations in Dalian


In Dalian Hi-Tech Zone

*Managed by Dalian Hgh-Tech Zone Management Committee *American companies:
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Dell Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies. Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
, Avaya Communications etc. *Chinese companies:
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, hiSoft, etc. *Japanese companies: HAL Film Maker, Jtekt, MI Communication, etc.


In Dalian Software Park

*Built and managed by Dalian Software Co., Ltd. *American companies:
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,
Genpact Genpact is an American professional services firm legally domiciled in Bermuda with its headquarters in New York City, New York. The company currently employs more than 100,000 people and provides services to clients in over 30 countries worldwid ...
(a GE company), HP, IBM,
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,
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,
Symantec Symantec may refer to: *An American consumer software company now known as Gen Digital Inc. *A brand of enterprise security software purchased by Broadcom Inc. Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier ...
,
Netapp NetApp, Inc. is an American hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in San Jose, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 from 2012–2021. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers cloud data services ...
, etc. *Chinese companies: China Software & Service (CS&S),
Neusoft Group Neusoft Corporation is a Chinese multinational provider of software engineering services, Information Technology services, product engineering services, IT education and medical equipment headquartered in Shenyang, China. "Neusoft" is an ac ...
, Neusoft Institute of Information, New Touch, etc. *European companies:
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(UK),
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(Germany), Oostsourcing (A joint venture of Akyla 40%, Better Be 40%, Insight 20%, Netherlands) *Japanese companies
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, Fujitsu Device,
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,
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, Panasonic, OMRON,
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, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Yokogawa Electric, etc. *Other companies: Satyam (India),
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(Taiwan), etc.


In Dalian Software Park Phase 2


In Dalian Ascendas IT Park

*Built and managed by Dalian Ascendas Co., Ltd., a DLSP-Ascendas joint venture * Konica Minolta,
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, Lüshun South Road Software Industry Belt Demonstration Room, etc.


In Dalian Tiandi Software Park

*Built and managed by a DLSP-Shui On Group joint venture *To open in 2008


In Other parts of Dalian

*There are IT companies and organizations that are located in other areas of the city. *Dalian InfoMedia, With System, Sumisei Computer System, NHN Corporation (
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), Dalian City Bureau of Information Industry, Dalian City Software Industry Association, etc.


History of the IT industry in Dalian

*1992: Dalian Computer Center (DCC) of the Dalian City Government received an order from
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to do application software development. *1996: DCC split one of its departments to found Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology Corp. (DHC, Nov.) Dalian Hisoft Corp. was founded (Nov.). *1998: Groundbreaking of Dalian Software Park (June). *1999: Official opening of Dalian Software Park (July).
Neusoft Group Neusoft Corporation is a Chinese multinational provider of software engineering services, Information Technology services, product engineering services, IT education and medical equipment headquartered in Shenyang, China. "Neusoft" is an ac ...
opened a Dalian development center (July). Singapore's BHR-Frontline opened a Dalian development center, as the first foreign company in this Park. *2000: Northeast University's Neusoft Institute of Information started. (Sept.). *2001: Japan Information Service Industry Association (JISA) and China Information Industry Association had their 5th joint meeting in Dalian (July). Panasonic opened its development center, as the first Japanese company in the Park (Sept.). *2002:
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became No. 1 in China's Software Export Ranking. *2003: Dalian City announced the "Lüshun South Road Software Industry Belt" plan and the groundbreaking ceremonies of Dalian Software Park Phase 2 were held (June). The First China (Dalian) International Software & Information Service Fair was held (July). IBM,
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, CSK and others entered the Park. *2004: HP,
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, OMRON and other companies entered the Park. *2005: The First China-Japan Embedded Software Seminar was held and a
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demonstration room was established (June). *2006: Chinese Ministry of Commerce gave Dalian City an "International Business Outsourcing Base" recognition. *2007: Opening of Dalian Ascendas IT Park (Sept.). Groundbreaking of Dalian Tiandi Software Park (Sept.). *2008: The 10th anniversary of Dalian Software Park (June). The world-famous companies, such as
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,
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,
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, BT Group and
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, entered the Park. The Dalian (Japan) Software Park office was set up in
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, Tokyo.


References


The History of DLSP
(in Chinese)
The Milestones of DHC
(in Chinese)
The History of Hisoft


Other cities in China

There are 30-50 City-level, Province-level and National-level software parks in China. There are eleven National level software parks, in:
Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
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,
Dalian Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...
,
Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...
,
Hangzhou Hangzhou ( or , ; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, whi ...
,
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
,
Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by #Name, other names, is the list of capitals in China, capital of Shaanxi, Shaanxi Province. A Sub-provincial division#Sub-provincial municipalities, sub-provincial city o ...
, and others. A brief look at these cities are: *
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
: Being the commercial center of China, the world's key IT industries have opened marketing and systems engineering centers, in its downtown or in such areas as
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park The Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park is a technology park in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It is operated by Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Development Co., Ltd. The park specializes in research in life sciences, software, semiconductors, and inform ...
in Pudong. *
Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
: China's IT industry was "born" in
Zhongguancun Zhongguancun () is a major technology hub in Haidian District, Beijing, China. Zhongguancun occupies a band between the northwestern Third Ring Road and the northwestern Fourth Ring Road, in the northwestern part of Beijing. Zhongguancun is ...
, near
Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
and
Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...
. The world's many IT companies have set up development centers, particularly research centers, due to availability of excellent universities in Beijing. In the north of Zhongguancun is also Zhongguancun Software Park. *
Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...
and
Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by #Name, other names, is the list of capitals in China, capital of Shaanxi, Shaanxi Province. A Sub-provincial division#Sub-provincial municipalities, sub-provincial city o ...
: These inland cities are where key universities moved during the Sino-Japanese War. China's space exploration bases are nearby, and there are strong electronic industries
Chendu Tianfu (Heavenly City) Software Park
has IBM, whil
Xi'an Software Park
has
Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...
,
NEC is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It prov ...
and a joint venture of
UFIDA Software Yonyou (officially Yonyou Network Technology Co., Ltd., formerly yonyou Software Co., Ltd.) is principally engaged in the development and distribution of enterprise management software and cloud services. Yonyou has around 230 branches worldwide ...
(Yongyou) and
NTT Data is a Japanese multinational information technology (IT) service and consulting company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a partially-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation ...
.


See also

* Dalian Hi-Tech Zone *
Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County ...
, US * Silicon Fen, UK * Silicon Wadi, Israel *
Yokosuka Research Park Yokosuka Research Park (YRP) is an area in Yokosuka City, Japan, where many of the wireless, mobile communications related companies have set up their research and development centers and joint testing facilities. YRP was constructed during the 1 ...
(YRP) and
Kansai Science City is an unincorporated city located in the , a border region between Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara Prefectures in Kansai region, Japan. The name is commonly shortened to or . The name Keihanna is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Kyo ...
, Japan *
List of technology centers This is a list of technology centers throughout the world. Government planners and business networks often incorporate "silicon" or "valley" into place names to describe their own areas as a result of the success of Silicon Valley in Califor ...
of the World *
Software industry in China The software industry in China is the business of developing and publishing software and related services in China. The size of the industry including software and information services in 2013 was worth 3060 billion RMB (about $493 billion) accordi ...
*
China Software Industry Association The China Software Industry Association (CSIA) is the major representative and one of the most active associations in the China software industry. Its goal is to promote the development of software industry in China and provide a hub with overseas ...


References

*
Thomas L. Friedman Thomas Loren Friedman (; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for ''The New York Times''. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global tra ...
, " The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century, Updated and Expanded" (New York: Penguin Books Ltd., 2006) The following references are written in Japanese: *
Kenichi Ohmae is a Japanese organizational theorist, management consultant, Former Professor and Dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and author, known for developing the 3C's Model. Biography Born in 1943 in Kitakyūshū, Ohmae earned a BS in ...
, "China Impact" (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2002) *Rin Katoku, "Dalian on Fire, A Story of Software Development in Dalian" (Tokyo: SCC, 2005) *Overseas Software Purchasing Association, "A Guide to Offshore Software Development in China," (Computer-Age-Sha, 2005) *Naotaka Ohwada, "IT Power of China and India, A 10 Million Strong Elite Group Engulfing Japan," in ''Nikkei Computer'' Magazine, May 2, 2005 *Mitsuhiro Seki, "The Educational-Industrial Complex in China," (Shinhyoron, 2007) {{reflist


Further reading


Doing Our Homework
by Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times on 2004-06-24
Introduction to Dalian Software Park
Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization

DalianNews.com 2004-03-17
Dalian Software Park accelerates workforce development with IBM education solution
IBM Case studies: Dalian Software Park - Learning Solutions


External links


Dalian Software Park
(DLSP) Science and technology in the People's Republic of China Economy of China Software companies of China