Wuhan

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Post time:2010-08-11Source:ChinaSourcingAuthor:ChinaSourcingEditor:Vicky
Overview of Wuhan

Located in the central south inland of China, Wuhan, also known as “the hub of nine provinces” in ancient times, is the heart of China’s economic geography. As one of the core cities for the Rising of Central China Strategy, Wuhan takes the role of the center for connecting east and west and linking south with north.
As the center of economy, science & technology, education and culture in Central China, Wuhan takes its science & technology and human resource advantages to develop the service outsourcing industry focusing on high-end software outsourcing business, and has been awarded by Ministry of Commerce as a service outsourcing base city in 2006.

Service outsourcing industry in Wuhan

Goal of service outsourcing development in Wuhan

Wuhan aims to become China’s outsourcing delivery center, which means Wuhan shall open to the developed countries like Europe, US,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Japan and South Korea to undertake orders from domestic first-class cities and focus its development on rear operations like order acceptance to make sure most service outsourcing businesses are delivered in Wuhan, thus to achieve the goal of building Wuhan into a major service outsourcing delivery center and service outsourcing talent cultivation base by the end of the Eleventh Five-year Plan period. The specific development objectives include:
1. By 2010, the total revenue of service outsourcing business shall reach RMB 50 billion, in which the export of service outsourcing shall reach US$ 500 million.
2. By 2010, Wuhan shall train 80,000 university graduates and create 100,000 new employment opportunities in the service outsourcing industry.
3. By 2010, Wuhan shall attract 80,000 university graduates to work in this industry and make the total service outsourcing personnel to exceed 100,000. It shall attract 800 domestic and overseas companies to set up service outsourcing enterprises there, in which 100 enterprises shall acquire CMM13/CMM3 and above and 20 enterprises shall have CMM15/CMM5 certification.
4. Foster two to four service outsourcing enterprises with over 5,000 employees and ten enterprises with over 1,000 employees respectively.

Preferential policies of Wuhan Government to encourage service outsourcing

Wuhan has incorporated the accelerated development of service outsourcing industry into its “Eleventh Five-year Plan”. To provide macroeconomic guide for the industry, Wuhan has issued various policies and suggestions for promoting the service outsourcing industry, including Several Policies for Encouraging the Development of Service Outsourcing Industry, Measures for the Management of Science & Technology Enterprise Hatcher of Wuhan, Several Opinions of the Provincial Government on Accelerating the Development of Software Industry,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Opinions of Municipal Government on Further Encouraging the Development of Software Industry and Integrated Circuit Industry, Opinions on the Implementation of Preferential Policies to Accelerate Software Industry Development, Notice of Provincial Government on Issuing Several Policies for Promoting the Development of Software Industry and Integrated Circuit Industry, Notice of the Administrative Office of Municipal Government on Accelerating the Construction and Development of High & New-tech Innovation Service Center, and Measures for the Implementation of Financial and Tax Policies Related to “Several Opinions of CPC Wuhan Committee and Wuhan Municipal Government on Further Supporting the Development of High & New-tech Industry. Through these policies and regulations,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Wuhan has formed a local policy system for supporting the development of service outsourcing industry composed of relevant preferential policies on land, taxation, fund, talent cultivation and attraction,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and intellectual property protection as well as detailed implementation measures.
Specific preferential policies include: 1. Set up special supporting fund for the service outsourcing industry, allocating RMB 100 million each year for supporting service outsourcing enterprises to carry out qualification certification, international market exploration, and personnel training. Enterprises can receive RMB 100,000 as an award for passing software outsourcing certification, and RMB 0.1 from government for every US$ 1 of the order. 2. Set up special fund for big projects invitation to provide land subsidy for inviting famous enterprises and promising projects. 3. Issue preferential policies for service outsourcing personnel training and attraction,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which provides maximum 15% reimbursement of the training fee for fresh undergraduate students joining the service outsourcing industry, and maximum 50% of reimbursement of the training fee for pre-occupation training of new employees of service outsourcing enterprises. 4. Provide preferential land price and lease rental for the office buildings of headquarters and R&D centers of famous service outsourcing enterprises in the service park.

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