Shanghai Daily news

Leading firms and industry associations in the software industry in Shanghai and its neighbors in eastern China will form an alliance today to boost a competitive software outsourcing sector in a move to consolidate their strengths in the global market, city officials announced yesterday.
Sixteen members of the Cooperative Alliance of Software Industry in East China & Yangtze River Delta vow to share resources and cooperate to develop a sustainable software industry, said officials with the technology trade division of Shanghai Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Commission during the Global IT Outsourcing Summit in Shanghai.
"The alliance will help secure the Yangtze Delta region to become a national software outsourcing center," said Zhu Sanyuan, vice director of the Shanghai Software Industry Association.
"As an industry leader, Shanghai will subcontract some deals with non-core technologies to nearby cities to facilitate the industry in the region," he added.
Shanghai vice Mayor Zhou Yupeng said at the summit that "the software outsourcing industry will play a key role in Shanghai's commitment to promote service outsourcing."
Shanghai's software exports jumped a whopping 80 percent from 2003 to US$476 million last year, the trade commission said. The city has registered an annual growth rate of over 50 percent in software exports since 2002.
Shanghai is now home to more than 120 software exporters compared with 80 companies in 2002, according to the commission.
The summit lured over 200 experts and business leaders in the global software industry.