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Der wichtige Punkt zur Verbesserung von Outsourcing in China

In der heutigen Gesellschaft in China versucht fast jedes Unternehmen, in die Welt des Outsourcings einzutreten. Es besteht kein Zweifel, dass viele Unternehmen das Outsourcing erfolgreich getan haben. Aber einige Firmen sind nicht so glücklich. Deshalb ist es empfehlenswert für Sie, weitere Informationen über Outsourcing zu suchen und den wichtigen Punkt zur Verbesserung des Outsourcings zu lernen, wenn Sie planen, einige Arbeit Ihres Unternehmens nach anderen auszulagern, 

Alles hat seine vor- und Nachteile. Es gilt auch für das Outsourcing. Aber wenn Sie genau die wissen Nachteile des Outsourcing kennen und die Methoden zur Beilegung der Probleme haben, dann führt es zu einem erfolgreichen Outsourcing.

Eigentlich ist es nach der derzeitigen Situation in der chinesischen Wirtschaft eine gute Wahl sowohl für großständische als auch für mittel- und kleinständische Unternehmen, einige Arbeit ihrer Unternehmen nach den anderen machen zu lassen. In diesem Fall ist der Schlüssel für ein besseres Outsourcing ist, seinen wichtigsten Vorteil am besten zu nutzen.

Werfen wir jetzt einen Blick auf die Vorteile des Outsourcings.

+ Der offensichtlichste Vorteil des Outsourcings ist wahrscheinlich die Kosteneinsparungen. Outsourcing ermöglicht Ihnen, billigere Arbeitskräfte einzustellen, die entweder negative sind oder aus anderen Ländern für gleiche oder bessere Produktqualität kommen.

+ Allgemein gesagt, dass das Outsourcing den Unternehmen bei ihren Kerngeschäften hilft. Ein erfolgreiches Unternehmen ist dasjenige, das auf dem heutigen harten Markt noch seine einzigartigen Eigenschaften und hauptliche Wettbewerbsfähigkeit hat. Daher, wenn ein Unternehmen sein Geschäft effektiv auslagern kann, wird das Unternehmen auf lange Sicht stärker sein.

+ In der Zwischenzeit ermöglicht das Outsourcing einem Unternehmen, den Zugang zu Technologien und Fähigkeiten erhalten, denen es nicht gewöhnt, vor allem für die kleinen Unternehmen ist.

In Kurzem ist es der wichtigste Vorteil des Outsourcing die Fähigkeit, sich in einer sicheren Zone, wo es keine Fallstricke des Outsourcings gibt. Und dies ist ein zeitaufwändig und bemührbare Aufgabe. Es scheint, dass nicht jedes Unternehmen das beste Outsourcing tun kann. Jedoch kann jedes Unternehmen sein Bestes geben, besseres Outsourcing durchzuführen.

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How a ‘model’ employee got away with outsourcing his software job to China

Bob was his company’s best software developer, got glowing performance reviews and earned more than $250,000 a year.

Then one day last spring, Bob’s employer, an American infrastructure company, thought its computer network had been attacked by a virus.

The ensuing forensic probe revealed that Bob’s software code had in fact been the handiwork of a Chinese subcontractor.

Bob was paying a Chinese firm about $50,000 a year to do his work, then spent the day surfing the web, watching cat videos and updating his Facebook page.

“This particular case was pretty unique,” computer security investigator Andrew Valentine, who helped uncover Bob’s scheme, said in an e-mail to The Globe and Mail. “We thought it was actually pretty clever.”

Mr. Valentine made Bob’s tale public in a blog post on Monday and it has since been the talk of tech websites.

“While the large-scale data breaches make the headlines and are widely discussed among security professionals, often the small and unknown cases are the ones that are remembered as being the most interesting,” Mr. Valentine wrote in his blog.

He said the creative but deceitful programmer, whom he called by the pseudonym “Bob,” was a family man and long-time employee in his 40s, “inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn’t look at twice in an elevator.”

Mr. Valentine, who works for the global communications company Verizon, wouldn’t identify Bob’s employer except to say that it was a private “critical infrastructure company” in the United States.

For the past two years, the firm had increasingly been getting employees to telecommute or work from home.

To connect remotely to the company computer system, staffers needed a personal identification number, which changed at regular intervals. Employees were issued security tokens, small devices that updated them with the latest generated PIN.

Last spring, the company grew concerned about computer security breaches and asked its IT department to inspect more closely its remote-access logs, looking for unusual patterns of activity.

To their surprise, they saw that someone connected into their network every day from Shenyang, a city in the historical Manchurian north of China, near the Korean peninsula.

More interestingly, the Chinese intruder was logged in using Bob’s PIN and credentials, “yet the employee is right there, sitting at his desk, staring into his monitor,” Mr. Valentine wrote.

“Based on what information they had obtained, the company initially suspected some kind of unknown malware that was able [to] route traffic from a trusted internal connection to China, and then back. This was the only way they could intellectually resolve the authentication issue. What other explanation could there be?”

Verizon investigators were contacted. They inspected Bob’s workstation, trying to find whether he had unintentionally downloaded a virus.

Instead, the cyber-sleuths discovered hundreds of invoices from a software developer in Shenyang.

The investigation revealed that Bob had outsourced his job. To get around the changing PINs, he couriered his security tokens to the Shenyang subcontractor.

It wasn’t clear how long Bob’s scheme had been running because log records only dated back to six months.

While Bob physically reported to the company that hired Verizon to investigate him, he also padded his income as a contract worker for other local firms, for which he also relied on his Chinese outsourcing arrangement.

Looking at his web browsing history, investigators found that Bob spent his workday checking sites such as Reddit, Ebay, Facebook and LinkedIn and watching cat videos. Then he would type an e-mail at the end of the day to update management about his “work” and left at 5 p.m.

Bob was fired for violating internal company policy, Mr. Valentine said in his e-mail to The Globe and Mail.

By all accounts, the Chinese contractor did an excellent job and until then it reflected well on Bob.

“His code was clean, well-written, and submitted in a timely fashion,” Mr. Valentine noted. “Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building.”

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/how-a-model-employee-got-away-with-outsourcing-his-software-job-to-china/article7409256/

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Software engineer ‘outsourced’ his entire job to China for a fifth of his salary

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Outsourcing has been a reality in the American workplace for years now, but we haven’t heard of an employee outsourcing his entire job — until now. According to the BBC, a software engineer was apparently outsourcing his entire job to China by paying a fifth of his six-figure salary to a local firm in Shenyang who handled his job for him. The employee reportedly did this through a "fairly standard" VPN connection that was set up to allow employees to work from home. The man actually mailed his RSA security token to China so that workers there could log in to his account, and on the surface it seemed as if he was performing a normal day’s work. However, further scrutiny revealed the connection to China, which at first was believed to be malware. Furthermore, a Verizon investigator told the BBC that evidence "suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area." It seems this was less a case of sheer laziness and more a case of someone using cheap foreign labor to pull off a fairly involved scam.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3882900/verizon-software-engineer-outsourced-his-entire-job-to-china

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US Software Developer Caught Outsourcing His Job to China

PHOTO: A U.S. developer was busted for outsourcing his job to Chinese programmers.

A software developer was busted for outsourcing his job to a programmer in China while he surfed the Web at work.

The case was described by Andrew Valentine, a principal with Verizon Enterprise Solutions, who published a blog post about the incident.

"We’ve seen plenty of employee misconduct cases, but not typically like this," Valentine told ABC News of his consulting caseload, which includes large scale data breach events.

Valentine’s team was contacted by another company based in the U.S. for assistance over "anomalous activity" it noticed in records of employees logging remotely into the company’s IT system.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions is not releasing the name of the company or the employee.

The company’s security team eventually found that someone was logging in from Shenyang, China with the American employee’s credentials — while that employee was staring at a computer monitor in his U.S. office.

In his blog, Valentine described the employee as being in his mid-40s with a "relatively long tenure with the company, family man, inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn’t look at twice in an elevator."

A search of the employee’s computer found hundreds of PDF invoices from a third party contractor/developer from Shenyang.

Eventually, it was discovered that the employee had outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm, paying about $50,000 to the firm out of his salary of several hundred thousand dollars.

Once on-site, Valentine said it took about two days for investigators to collect relevant evidence and put all the pieces together.

In the blog, Valentine wrote that according to his Web browsing history, "a typical ‘work day’" for the employee looked like the following:

9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos

11:30 a.m. – Take lunch

1:00 p.m. – EBay time.

2:00 – ish p.m. – Facebook updates – LinkedIn

4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.

5:00 p.m. – Go home

The employee had sent his company log-in key through FedEx to China so that the third-party contractor could log in under his credentials during his workday.

The "best part" of the story is that "for the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks" in his performance review, Valentine wrote in the blog.

"His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."

Valentine said the employee was terminated for violating internal company policy.

"The employee denied everything at first, but then changed his story once we produced the invoices that were recovered from deleted disk space," Valentine told ABC News.

"Honestly? I thought it was pretty clever. I think he took a calculated risk by knowingly violating company policy, for sure — but it was clever."

Valentine said that if he was even cleverer, he would have set up a server at home, or somewhere else off-site, for the Chinese consulting firm to access. Then he could proxy their traffic, making it appear that the traffic was coming from his home.

"That would have been a smarter way to go about it. But yes, either way, pretty clever," Valentine said.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-software-developer-busted-employer-outsourcing-job-china/story?id=18230346

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China hacking reveals outsourcing to private US firms in international cyberwar

When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he didn’t have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets.

He pulled together a 76-page report based on seven years of his company’s work and produced the most detailed public account yet of how, he says, the Chinese government has been rummaging through the networks of major U.S. companies.

It wasn’t news to Mandia’s commercial competitors, or the federal government, that systematic attacks could be traced back to a nondescript office building outside Shanghai that he believes was run by the Chinese army. What was remarkable was that the extraordinary details — code names of hackers, one’s affection for Harry Potter and how they stole sensitive trade secrets and passwords — came from a private security company without the official backing of the U.S. military or intelligence agencies that are responsible for protecting the nation from a cyberattack.

The report, embraced by stakeholders in both government and industry, represented a notable alignment of interests in Washington: The Obama administration has pressed for new evidence of Chinese hacking that it can leverage in diplomatic talks — without revealing secrets about its own hacking investigations — and Mandiant makes headlines with its sensational revelations.

The report also shows the balance of power in America’s cyberwar has shifted into the hands of the $30 billion-a-year computer security industry.

"We probably kicked the hornet’s nest," Mandia, 42, said in an interview at the Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters of Mandiant. But "tolerance is just dwindling. People are tired of the status quo of being hacked with impunity, where there’s no risk or repercussion."

China has disputed Mandiant’s allegations.

Mandiant, which took in some $100 million in business last year — up 60 percent from the year before — is part of a lucrative and exploding market that goes beyond antivirus software and firewalls. These "digital forensics" outfits can tell a business whether its systems have been breached and — if the company pays extra — who attacked it.

Mandiant’s staff is stocked with retired intelligence and law enforcement agents who specialize in computer forensics and promise their clients confidentiality and control over the investigation. In turn, they get unfettered access to the crime scene and resources to fix the problem (Mandiant won’t say exactly how much it charges, but it’s estimated to average around $400 an hour).

The growing reliance on contractors like Mandiant has been compared to that enjoyed by the military and State Department contractor formerly known as Blackwater, which provided physical security to diplomats and other VIPs during the Iraq war. Officials inside and outside government say that’s not a bad thing; contractors can often act more quickly than the government and without as much red tape. There are also serious privacy concerns: Most U.S. citizens don’t want the government to access their bank accounts, for example, even if China is attacking their bank.

"The government doesn’t have the capacity," said Shawn Henry, a former FBI executive assistant director who works for a Mandiant competitor, CrowdStrike. "There are a lot of people working hard. But the structures aren’t there."

Michael DuBose, another former senior Justice Department official who works at a different Mandiant competitor, Kroll Advisory Solutions, added: "I think there’s a recognition that the government can’t stand at the entry point of the Internet to the United States and shield it from all bad things coming in."

Since Mandiant released its report this week, government officials and lawmakers have publicly embraced its findings. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, hailed Mandiant for exposing China as a problem. She called its report "sobering" and said she hoped it would spur an international agreement to protect companies from cyber-espionage.

"It’s a forcing function in the private sector, and frankly … it’s a forcing function with the government," said retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency who now works for the Chertoff Group, a security consulting firm.

Mandiant’s report raises questions, too, about the extent to which private companies are in control of defending the nation’s most crucial networks, like power companies and water treatment plants. Another question is what rules of engagement private companies might rely on. When does a company strike back?

Mandia and his competitors said they are beholden to U.S. and international laws, which prohibit the type of intrusive acts they accuse China of taking. Mandia also says his clients aren’t interested in starting a cyberwar with foreign hackers, in part because they are so vulnerable.

"The only time (hacking back) would really work is if we got all the bad guys out of our networks in the first place," he said. "Then you can start playing that game."

Still, publishing the hacking report was itself an offensive shot across China’s bow.

Mandia said he started his company in 2004 after years in the private sector because there was no company focused on investigating intrusions. With a master’s degree in forensic science from George Washington University, he became Mandiant’s sole employee and, two years later, got a cash infusion from a college friend. Now, he oversees some 330 employees and the field is growing rapidly. He says he used to see maybe three major incidents a month when he started his business; now he estimates there can be anywhere from 30 to 100 incidents a month.

Mandia is hardly alone. A former co-worker, Stuart McClure, recently started his own company, called Cylance. He received $15 million in venture capital funds for his business, which he says is distinctive because of its focus on prevention. McClure said in general he sees the future of cyberdefense residing in the private sector, with its deeper pockets and less red tape.

"With a commercial entity, you can get more creative," McClure said.

As for any problems they might cause in diplomatic or security circles for the federal government, Mandia and his competitors say that’s not really on their radar, although he’s hiring attorneys to help him monitor changing U.S. policies and regulations. But as a tech guy, he says he’s focused on stopping intrusions.

"We’re security guys," Mandia said. "We’re not diplomats."

Source: http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/dc75d6e01e4642fd9066712dfee9b2e7/US–Cybersecurity-Hired-Guns/

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Principles for Choosing A Software Outsourcing Company

Before we talk about the principals of selecting Software Company, it very important to understand the meaning of outsourcing. Outsourcing means delegating the extra job to someone else by concentrating on the organizations core competencies. It is mostly done for application development or we can say it is very much used in the IT sector. The main reason people do this to concentrate on the core competencies of the business and getting the extra thing done from others. There are companies that provide software development outsourcing services to such organizations.

There are many things that must be kept in mind while selecting the company for such services. First thing is to recognize the actual need of outsourcing i.e. Application development, web development or mobile development etc. so that the company must have the skill set to fulfill all such needs.  Once you recognize your need there are some areas which must be focused and must be analyzed before you select the outsourcing company. Below listed are the different areas and brief on the tips to analyses the particular areas-

1)  Experience of the firm- When I say experience, the things that need to be analyzed are the type of projects they have done in past?? From how much time are they in this business?? What king of diversified experience do they have?? These questions are important here as only being in the business for a long time doesn’t mean that the firm is very much experienced, experience comes from the work on diversified projects.

2)  Reliability of the firm- This talk about the existence of the firm. The offices of the firm, development centers and the employees working in the Firm. As we can’t rely on the firm that doesn’t have its own physical existence. Infrastructure of the firm plays a very important role.

3)  Client references- is the firm capable of sharing the references of the clients for whom they have worked earlier so that their work experience can be discussed with these clients and work review of the vendor can be taken from such references. They must be able to provide with full contact details and the projects they have done for these clients.

4)  Quality Assurance of the products and services- Here the quality certifications of the company must be checked and the development processes should be analyzed to have the understanding on the quality work done by the company.

5)  Communication- The level of communication should be suitable and the concerned people in the company must be capable of communicating nicely in the common language so that there is no confusion in case of requirements

6)  IPR(intellectual property rights)- this is the area which must be cleared before signing the contract with such a company. As it talks about the ownership of the project which must be transferred.

7)  Delivery times and methods- it must be checked that firm works properly and efficiently to deliver the projects as per promised time and there is no delay. Flexibility on delivery methods should also be analyzed before selecting the firm.

8)  Security of data- This is where the focus should be maintained as the firm must be capable of signing the confidentiality agreement before disclosure of any information publically. They must make sure that the data is secure internally and there will be no issues in future.

9)  Culture- Culture also matters as the beliefs of the outsourcing firm may not match the outsource and there may be conflicts due to such issues. So such conflicts must be avoided by analyzing all this things in advance.

10)  Risk coverage of the vendor- it must be checked if the vendor is insured and what is the coverage amount so that the data loss can be covered in case of any issues.

11) Hidden costs- Make sure that all the cost and engagement models are discussed in advance to have a better understanding on the cost incurred and the billing cycles to avoid any confusion and to avoid any hidden cost charges by the firm.

12)  Payment terms- Payments terms must be finalized before selecting the firm as every firm has their own payment terms , so these terms and the mode of payments must be discussed to avoid any additional charges from the firm.

13)  Support policy- Support policy of the firm must be checked for having an understanding on the after sales support that is provided by the firm and cost to be incurred for maintenance.

At the end I would like to mention that the above listed areas are very important to be analyzed to avoid any confusion and to select a outsourcing firm for a long term business relationship.

Source: http://customcompany.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/principles-for-choosing-a-software-outsourcing-company/

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China names Infosys in key outsourcing companies’ list

China’s Ministry of Commerce has named Infosys in its list of the 100 key liaison service outsourcing companies.

The Ministry of Commerce is the designated governing body for service outsourcing sector, which has been identified as a key industry in that country, Infosys said in a statement.

Infosys China has operations across Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Hangzhou and Jiaxing and has more than 3,300 employees. The company offers its entire range of services to both local enterprises and multinational companies operating in China.

Infosys also had also set up development and delivery centres in China to support the needs of globally clients. A new centre, with a capacity to accommodate about 10,000 employees, is currently under construction in Minghang, Shanghai.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/china-names-infosys-in-key-outsourcing-companies-list/article4218196.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home

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Post-election Analysis Finds Manufacturing, China, and Outsourcing Dominated 2012 Political TV Advertising

More than 975,000 mentions were made in presidential TV advertising about the key issues of jobs, outsourcing, and trade generally or involving China specifically, and Gov. Romney’s involvement with Bain Capital, according to a new report released today by Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG) conducted for the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM).

The new report analyzed the broadcast TV advertising airtime devoted to the presidential race as well as key Senate races in four industrial states: Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The analysis was based on advertising tracked in all 210 U.S. media markets as well as on 11 national broadcast networks and more than 80 national cable networks.

“America’s airwaves were jammed with 30- and 60-second ads about persistent joblessness, the government bailout of the automakers, and the impact of outsourcing and trade—specifically, trade with China—on domestic employment,” said Elizabeth Wilner, vice president of Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group. “Even in today’s service-and-dotcom economy, one of the most popular images in 2012 political advertising was the American factory. Whether depicted as desolate through chained gates or shot from a brightly lit, busy floor, the factory starred in an air war dominated by debate over the American economy.”

According to AAM Executive Director Scott Paul, “Both the Democratic and Republican candidates spent a stunning amount of money on television advertising to convince voters that they could best represent the interests of America’s manufacturers and their workers.  Obviously they latched on to the right issues because jobs and outsourcing are absolute, top-of-mind issues.  Across the partisan spectrum, these issues move voters.”

This summer, bipartisan pollsters Mark Mellman and Whit Ayres conducted a national poll for AAM that found voters greatly concerned about outsourcing, with 62 percent of voters saying Washington needs to get tougher when China violates trade agreements.  And fully 83 percent of voters express an unfavorable view of companies that outsource jobs to China.

China dominated the trade debate overall.  In all five of the races examined by CMAG, the majority of trade-centered TV advertising put the spotlight on China. In the Wisconsin and Indiana Senate races, China was the focus of all the TV advertising about trade. In the Pennsylvania Senate race, it was the focus of all Republican advertising about trade. In the Ohio Senate race, the vast majority of trade-related advertising focused on China—and all of it was aired by Democratic advertisers.

“China has become a pivotal issue,” said Paul.  “The only question now, after all the hundreds of millions that have been spent, is whether the winning candidates will follow through on their promises.  Voters will be watching for action.”

Added Paul, “The auto rescue may have been unpopular when it was initiated in 2009, but it was a key to the President’s victory in Ohio in 2012. Persuading voters that you stand for American manufacturing is going to be a litmus test for any serious national candidate moving forward.”

Some key findings from the study:

+ Republicans outspent and out-aired Democrats on jobs. In all five races, Republicans spent more money and had higher spot count rates than Democrats on advertising that mentioned “jobs.”

+ Democrats’ ads about jobs focused on businesses that sent jobs overseas and laid off workers, which explains why the two sides’ spending and spot-count levels on jobs were closer to parity in the Presidential contest but much further apart in the Senate races. While Bain Capital’s business practices were a major theme of advertising in the race for the White House, the issue was exclusive to that race.

+ Despite being outspent and out-aired, Democrats’ messaging on jobs proved more effective.

+ Republican mentions of “jobs” tended to increase, and Democratic mentions tended to decrease, around the release time of the monthly jobs reports.

+ “Jobs” was the most-mentioned issue in 2012 advertising by far, not just in the five races but in federal races overall.

+ In the four Senate races in particular, Republicans outspent and out-aired Democrats on jobs mentions by anywhere from 2:1 to 4:1. The Democrats used their ads about outsourcing and firing workers to distance the Republican candidates from the voting blocs they needed to win, often punctuating them with taglines such as, “He’s not for us anymore,” and “If [he] wins, the middle class loses.”

+ Looking more closely at the presidential race, Democrats spent $57 million in TV advertising attacking Gov. Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, for its alleged practices of shipping jobs overseas or eliminating them altogether. The Obama campaign also devoted substantial advertising to the outsourcing angle, including an ad suggesting that, under Romney’s leadership, Bain laid off workers and destroyed livelihoods.

+ While the anti-Bain ads received enormous media attention, more money—$68 million—actually was spent to advertise about trade. The two sides spent roughly the same amount on ads mentioning trade, about $34 million, but all the Republican spending went toward ads specifically mentioning China trade. The Romney campaign in particular used ads to accuse the President of not being tough enough on China trade and currency manipulation.

+ The Ohio market in general and Cleveland in particular were dominant for both presidential ad spending and occurrences on all these issues. Across all markets seeing presidential advertising, Cleveland ranked second-highest for both spending and spot mentions of jobs: $37 million and 33,877, respectively. For anti-Bain mentions, it ranked second-highest for spending and highest for spots: $4.8 million and 5,676. On trade, it ranked second-highest for spending and highest for spots: $5.8 million and 5,138. And on China trade, it ranked highest for both spending and spots: $4.6 million and 4,722.

Source: http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/post-election-analysis-finds-manufacturing-china-and-outsourcing-dominated-2012-political-tv-ad

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American Software Businesses Seek Cooperation in W China

An American delegation comprising executives from leading software businesses visited southwest China’s Sichuan province Tuesday, kicking off a two-day mission to promote software cooperation in western China.

Led by U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke, the delegation will hold trade talks with Chinese partners from Sichuan and Chongqing, which will cover the topics like promoting bilateral trade, fostering local economic growth, and protecting intellectual property rights of software.

Representatives from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and famous software businesses, including Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft and Siemens PLM, were among the delegation.

During a meeting with Sichuan officials Tuesday, Gary Locke said that western China, especially Sichuan, has established a well-developed high-tech economic pattern and transparent legal system, creating a foundation of innovation that has consequently attracted more foreign investors. He also said highly educated professionals and a comfortable environment in Sichuan also attract more American enterprises.

Xie Kaihua, director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce, said software outsourcing service has been a highlight in the province’s foreign investment and more American software businesses are welcome to invest in Sichuan.

The goods trade between Sichuan and the United States exceeded 10 billion U.S. dollars last year, growing by 84.6 percent year-on-year, statistics show.

In addition, the direct investment from American businesses in Sichuan has surpassed 1.4 billion dollars, and 16 Sichuan businesses have invested in the United States with a total investment of more than 80 million U.S. dollars.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/05/08/2982s698096.htm

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China to double outsourcing industry by 2016

China’s outsourcing industry is likely to double in volume by 2016 on account of a fast growing domestic market, with innovation rather than low costs being the leading driving force, industry insiders said, People’s Daily reported.

Although for many, an Indian call center is still the first image that comes to mind when mentioning outsourcing, "China has the opportunity to develop an outsourcing industry much more robust than India ever will", Mike Corbett, chairman of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, said in Beijing last week.

India is still the top global outsourcing service provider, but China is catching up rapidly because it combines the development of offshore business with the support of a rapidly growing domestic market, the newspaper reported Corbett as saying.

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http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-double-outsourcing-industry-2016

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