China planning to build 'Little India' to attract outsourcing industry.Byline: ANI New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. , Nov 2 (ANI): Wuxi, a picturesque city that lies along the Taihu Lake resort of the Jiangsu province, is planning to build a "little India Little India may refer to:
Wuxi is traditionally a manufacturing city, but with a focus on environmental protection, and especially after a serious blue-green algae blue-green algae, popular name for those microorganisms that are now more properly called cyanobacteria. outbreak in Taihu Lake, city leaders started to study how to transform the city's development. Wuxi decided to replace manufacturing with the service outsourcing industry, which has far less pollution and consumes much less energy, the China Daily reports. The city is expected to attract 30 to 40 billion dollars in service outsourcing business and help create jobs for one million people by 2020, equivalent to that of India as a whole in 2007. The advancement of the service outsourcing industry cannot survive without a large talent pool. But the city three years ago learned that fewer than 2,000 students in the city were studying software and information technology fields. As a result, Wuxi established a goal to build a total area of six million sq m for software service outsourcing within three years, and encouraged enterprises to cultivate and import skilled workers. The local government joined India's National Institute of Information Technologies (NIIT NIIT National Institute of Information Technology (India) NIIT Nust Institute of Information Technology (Pakistan) NIIT National Information Infrastructure Testbed ), the world's second-largest ducational institution, to establish the NIIT (China) Outsourcing College in Wuxi as a training base for the city's outsourcing businesses. While the domestic macro-economy continues to be affected by the global financial crisis, outsourcing is maintaining robust growth in Wuxi. The city signed 1.14 billion dollars in contracts from January to July, up 110 percent year-on-year. After India became world's largest service-outsourcing base, many East Asian countries Noun 1. Asian country - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent Asian nation country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" including Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam egan competing for more market share. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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