Xi'an, China Attracts Business And Partnerships With Hi-tech Industries In Silicon Valley And Across The USA

Online, September 27, 2010 (Newswire.com) - SANTA CLARA, Calif.- Delegation from Xi'an reached out to Silicon Valley's hi-tech community for wide range of opportunities at the event "Silicon Valley - Xi'an 2010: Explore Opportunities with China's Emerging Hi-tech Hub", as part of the delegation's 12 days visit to Northern America.

"People may hear of Xi'an as Chinese ancient capital, but they started to know bout its hi-tech industries development," said Mr. Huang Haiqing, Vice Mayor of Xi'an and the leader of a high-level delegation which arrived in San Francisco for a business visit. Mr. Huang emphasized that the future Xi'an will be built as important national scientific and technological research and development center, and hoped "to expand all-dimensional and wide ranging cooperation and exchanges with the renowned Silicon Valley enterprises in the IT field".

Vice Consul of Consulate General of China in San Francisco, Chen Wang, took note of the fact that China also underwent the global crisis together with other parts of the world. "However," he said, "It stimulated government to pay much attention to develop the area of infant industries, e.g. service outsourcing". He pointed out that China had become the world second large service outsourcing country behind India and the world occupation was rising quickly. "The world faces severe challenges, and closer cooperation between nations is needed more than ever," Mr. Chen said, "This forum is a great place to share observations regarding how to explore China's hi-tech markets, and how to carry out industrial cooperation between Silicon Valley and Xi'an."

Mr. Li Zhijun, Deputy Director General of the Bureau of Commerce in Xi'an, listed 3 points to prove strong competitiveness about Xi'an including its advantages and opportunities for developing software and service outsourcing. "The service outsourcing we are running is one of the emerging industries since the adjustment of world industrial structure," he said. Mr. Li also highlighted full support from Xi'an government on investment in software and service outsourcing industry to make the business climate more attractive to international companies. "We are continually improving investment environment and service functions, and we expect more interactions and communications with US enterprises to promote the fast development of outsourcing industry and share the result of city development with Xi'an people." Mr. Li concluded.

Larry Lei, The Deputy Director of Xi'an Soft Park also introduced the the infrastructure. Several Xi'an Software companies including Bachieve, Huamei, Huatek, also presented their capabilities during the event.

Other Silicon Valley speakers such as Mr. David Xu, President of SVC Wireless, and Hutch Hutchison, VP of Appcelerator, David Cao, Vice President of BeyondSoft Consulting Inc., were equally generous with their praise of Xi'an's outstanding achievements of developing software and service outsourcing industry. They all believed Xi'an would be built as a domestically leading and world famous outsourcing example city.

During the interactive information session, over 60 executives and senior officers of Silicon Valley renowned hi-tech enterprises, specializing in finance, IT outsourcing, mobile application development and wireless applications, keenly discussed the current investment situation of Xi'an and the government policies and support for hi-tech industries with Xi'an delegation. Some of them showed keen interests on cooperating and partnering with the enterprises from Xi'an.

This forum was organized by the Xi'an Municipal Government and was co-hosted by the following San Francisco organizations and enterprises:

-Silicon Valley Chinese Engineering Association
-Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association
- Wireless Communication Alliance
-SDForm.
- 99people, Inc.
- BeyondSoft Consulting, Inc.
-Xi'an Business Network
-Silicon Valley Shaanxi Association

About Xi'an, China

Xi'an is one of China's most progressive regions, playing a key role in China's hi-tech market. It has a strong scientific strength & advanced higher education. There are 42 colleges and universities, 524 large-and medium- sized scientific and technological research and development establishments in Xi'an. Of these, over 30 are the largest ones in China in terms of their professional capacities, and these have 55 state-level labs, and 380,000 professionals. Xi'an ranks the third after Beijing and Shanghai in terms of comprehensive scientific and technological strength in China, and number one among the medium and large cities in terms of density of technicians. The Chinese first computer, passenger airplane, IC board, and high speed color CRT camera were all developed in Xi'an. In addition, every year in Xi'an, over 1,500 scientific and technological results are generated and certified, many of which take the lead in China and some of them have achieved the advanced international level. As one of China's four software exploitation and export cities, Xi'an has formed the six main services projects including software exploit and processing, BPO, R&D, software application, engineering software outsourcing and call center services in Europe, the US, Japan and Taiwan. A great many multinational corporations have established laboratory in Xi'an, such as Huawei, Intel, ZTE, Microsoft, BeyondSoft, Cisco, HP, and Oracle, etc.

For more information, please visit http://en.xasourcing.gov.cn/