Zsoft Launches New China-Japan Software Outsourcing Platform

Zsoft Launches New China-Japan Software Outsourcing Platform

July 19, 2006

    BEIJING, July 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- At the Third
2006 Zhongguancun Software Outsourcing Summit staged today,
Zhongguancun Software Association (Zsoft), a Beijing-based
non-profit software industry association, announced the
launch of a China-Japan Software Outsourcing Platform to
boost China's software outsourcing business for Japanese
markets.

    The platform offers eight categories of service in
project, talent, communication, commodity, brand awareness
enhancement, business travel, industry intelligence and
financing.

    "The new platform will be a creative and win-win
model. It is expected to bring profits and latest
technologies to software companies in Zhongguancun,
so-called Silicon Valley in China, and also lowers the cost
for them to make inroads into Japanese markets.
Additionally, the platform will help Japanese small- and
medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to find satisfied partners
rapidly in China." Said by Mr. Yu Bin, President of
Zsoft.

    After the Second 2006 Zhongguancun Software Outsourcing
Summit, Zsoft launched the China-US Software Outsourcing
Platform to facilitate software-outsourcing business
flowing from the US to China. 

    Over the past year, such software outsourcing platforms
have become a key task for Zsoft to help software vendors in
Zhongguancun to explore international markets.

    The Japanese markets account for 60 per cent of Chinese
outsourcers' total revenues. But, "Japan-focused
outsourcing works in China account for 5 per cent of the
total businesses outsourced from Japan, and mainly come
from large Japanese companies like NEC and Fujitsu. Due to
imbalance in communication, 95 per cent of outsourcing
demands from Japanese SMBs cannot find appropriate Chinese
outsourcers", told by Mrs.Suo, international market
director of Maruso Co.Ltd in Japan, and the Secretary
General of Japan Software and Service Association.

    The Japan-oriented platform has already begun
operation. Several tens of SMBs in Tokyo, Japan are
preparing to launch Japanese Software and Service
Association (JSSA) to cooperate with Zsoft to establish an
outsourcing channel between Japanese and Chinese
businesses.

    Japanese companies donated offices and personnel
expenses to help establish a liaison office in Japan for
the outsourcing platform to facilitate the communication
between two countries.

    During the outsourcing summit, the liaison office in
Japan, which is in preparatory phase, has successfully
invited representatives of seven Japanese companies to come
to the summit. 

    10 Representatives of Japanese companies discussed over
talent training with iSoftStone Information Service Co Ltd
and Kinx Co Ltd, member companies of Zsoft.

    More than 30 software outsourcing vendors in
Zhongguancun attended the summit.

    About Zhongguancun Software Association

    Zhongguancun Software Association (Zsoft) is a
non-profit software association representing more than 5000
software companies in Zhongguancun Science Park (Zpark),
so-called Silicon Valley in China. Zsoft is under the
auspices of Zpark Administrative Committee, and aims to
facilitate the development of software companies in Zpark.


    About the Zsoft software outsourcing platform

    On November 8, 2005, Zhongguancun Software Association
(Zsoft) launched China-US Software Outsourcing Platform.
The platform helps software companies in Zhongguancun,
so-called Silicon Valley in China, to explore markets and
attain outsourcing orders by setting up outsourcing project
networks, organizing outsourcing summits, offering expert
consulting service, etc.

    The outsourcing platform aims to make Zhongguancun the
No 1 incubation center of China's software and service
industry in the world. The platform sets a goal of
attracting US$20 billion to Zhongguanncun in the next five
years.

    The outsourcing platform functions as the gateway for
international software outsourcing service buyers to enter
China. It creates win-win model for both international and
Chinese companies through information platform
http://www.zsoft.cn , four time-a-year Zhongguancun
Software Outsourcing Summit, seminars and one-stop service
for international companies to establish business
cooperation with Chinese software vendors.

    For more information, please contact:

     Ms. Ada 
     Zhongguancun Software Association
     Tel:   [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

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