Chengdu Tianfu Software Park Successfully Held an Exclusive Conference in Beijing
Summary
Chengdu meets their all demands: much lower operational cost, large talent pool, and international supporting facilities.Meanwhile, the large talent pool, with 1.65 million technicians in different types, and 130 000 software practitioners, high efficient government approvals, well-known excellent living environment and lowest as 5% retention rate are also the very important factors the companies rushing in quickly.A lot of critical topics and key themes deeply lighted the interest of present guests.Senior Executives from Maersk, Accenture and Ericsson shared the rationale behind their decision to establish a back-office center and R&D centers in Chengdu during the current global economic slowdown, and their experience of setting up operations in a second tier city.Alan Fung from KPMG assessed the prospects for back-office operations establishing in 2nd tier cities, Four HR experts from Microsoft, Hewitt, 51 Job and Ericsson discussed the HR opportunities and challenges in West China.Besides, the representatives from Chengdu Hi-tech zone government and Chengdu Tianfu Software Park Co., Ltd. has introduced the business environment and government policy for IT-BPO in Chengdu.Chengdu, well-known as Land of Abundance, with a population of over 11 million, one of the 11 national software bases in China, and also one of the fastest growing outsourcing cities and BPO cities in China, has gain rapid development of IT industry Since 2008, a large number of international companies speeded up to implant their back offices, development centers and R&D centers to this city under the big pressure of international financial crisis, to further reduce operational cost.Chengdu meets their all demands: much lower operational cost, large talent pool, and international supporting facilities.According the latest report released by Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, the average annual salary of common employees in Chengdu’s software and outsourcing industry is 2205 US Dollar (1799 Euro), professional technicians is 3851 US Dollar (3141 Euro), and senior professional Technicians is 5328 US Dollar (5328 Euro), 30%-50% lower than first tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.