Dalian a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing
2007/12/08 20:50 | by SamChan ]
Dalian Mayor Xia Deren clearly demonstrated the goal of building Dalian into a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing. This important idea pointed out the direction for the development of our city’s information industry.
I Establish and build new ideas in conformity with the leading city of global software and service outsourcing
Thought decides behavior. Idea promotes development. Only conceptual leap can better guide practice.
First, we should establish the idea of “priority development”. With the rapid rise and development of global software industry, the software industry has become the focus of international competition, for its development level is directly related to a country’s economic development, social progress and national security. Service outsourcing represented by software and information service outsourcing has become a major trend of global economic development. Accelerating the development of service outsourcing industry will certainly have a positive effect on promoting the economic and social development of Dalian. Therefore, we should be clear that the strategy of giving priority to the development of soft and service outsourcing, which was put forward by Mayor Xia Deren, not only conforms to the requirements of scientific development concept, but also is in line with the development trend of global software industry; not only is in line with the national policy on developing pollution-free, high-efficiency and low energy-consumption industry, but also conforms to the requirements of building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society. Implementation of priority development strategy can promote good and fast development of software and service outsourcing industry.
Second, we should establish the idea of “integration into the global production chain”. The world’s outsourcing market calls us to integrate into the global production chain rapidly. In recent years, global software and service outsourcing has had a rapidly expanding scale. It is estimated that in 2010, total scale of global outsourcing will be more than 110 billion US dollars. Such a huge total amount of outsourcing is bound to make world’s major companies further expand the scope of regions they choose, which will provide rare opportunities for more cities. The unique regional advantage requires us to integrate into the global production chain rapidly. Dalian, as an important city in Northeast Asia and the “leading” city of Liaoning Province “five-point and a line” development and opening up strategy, has a total information industry amount accounting for 70% of Liaoning Province and 50% of the three provinces in northeast China. Its software sales income accounts for 54% of the province, and software export accounts for 83% of the province. The electronic information and software industry base, as one of the city’s four major industrial bases, occupies a pivotal position in comprehensive revitalization of Dalian old industrial bases and building Northeast Asian important international city. A growing number of international large companies have recognized that Dalian is an ideal place for the world’s software and service outsourcing. We should introduce more international large companies to Dalian, promote software and service outsourcing to develop towards high-end and enhance international competitiveness, so as to make Dalian software and service outsourcing integrate into the global production chain rapidly and to make Dalian become the world’s new leading city.
Third, we should establish the idea of “paying equal attention to software outsourcing and independent research and development”. Independent innovation is the lifeblood of enterprises. While actively promoting international cooperation and outsourcing business, we should also increase the intensity of independent innovation and encourage enterprises to do independent innovation. To combine our city’s actual and future development needs, we must first place stress on important fields of innovation. In aspect of software development and design, we should focus on the construction of national software industry base, software export base and national software copyright protection model city, vigorously promote industrial control system, IC design and independent research, development and application of embedded software focusing on network communication, digital home appliances, information security and automotive electronics, and implement pilot enterprises of software in terms of independent research, development and innovation. Secondly, we should focus on important innovative brands. In fields of shipping logistics, industrial control, industrial management, mobile communications, programming in Chinese language, etc., we should accelerate the development of a number of software products with independent intellectual property rights of domestic leading and world’s level to form groups of advantage products. Focusing on Tengfei Software Park and other projects, we should accelerate construction process of the industrialized projects in the Lushun South Road software industrial belt; actively support the growth of digital content industries, and build innovative animation industrial base; focus on establishing research and development platform, industrial platform and embedded application service platform, and develop enterprises’ various capacities in innovation; cultivate a group of model software enterprises with independent innovation capacity by implementation of “united construction and innovation” pilot.
II Optimize the environment and build good conditions in conformity with the leading city of global software and service outsourcing
We should actively create conditions and make efforts to provide a good environment for the development of software and service outsourcing
First, we should form a policy environment supporting the construction of a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing. Software and information service industry is still an emerging industry in China, which needs the government to provide guidance and support. Especially in the current situation of fierce international competition, further encouragement policy is needed. Therefore, we should conscientiously implement the state preferential policies for supporting the development of the software industry, and provide Dalian software and service outsourcing with effective guarantee according to the Regulations on Supporting the Development of Hi-tech Industry by Dalian Municipal People’s Government, Views on Implementation of Accelerating the Development of Software Industry and Measures on Supporting Software Export by Dalian Customs, etc. The Bureau of the Information Industry should work together with relevant departments, formulating a series of supporting measures including soft enterprises certification standards and management measure, software product management measure, software industry statistics management measure, etc. to promote healthy development of software industry.
Second, we should improve the investment and financing environment for service outsourcing enterprises. The financing problem is the bottleneck troubling enterprise development. We should establish various investment and financing mechanisms conducive to the development of enterprises, such as bank loans and risk investment; focus on completing the diversified and multi-channel investment and financing system which is mainly based on private capital and under government’s guidance and support, encourage risk investment in service outsourcing industry, and gradually establish a service outsourcing industry risk investment system. We should actively develop themes of risk investment in service outsourcing industry, found special risk investment fund, and set up service outsourcing risk investment companies. We should strengthen the cooperation with international mainstream venture capital funds and introduce risk investment companies, forming professional alliance to structure professional risk investment and financing market for service outsourcing industry. We should give full play the guiding role of government funds, actively guide financial institutions to create new forms of credit for service outsourcing enterprises, and support promising service outsourcing projects.
Third, we should form an environment that can fasten the talents cultivation and introduction. Software Industry is an industry with high technology, talents are the most important production factor. Although Dalian has already had the talents advantage on industry development, how to solve the contradiction between the demand for talents and the limited supply, which are brought by the fast growing of industry. Generally speaking, we should resort to milk round, school-enterprise combination, and running school by non-governmental sectors, etc. plenty of talents cultivation and introduction mode, specifically speaking, we should construct a creative environment for talents. We should build a perfect, facing directly to the manufacturing systems of human resources of IT Enterprises. Aim at the situation of high-end information management and lack of highly skilled talents in our city, strengthen the support from government, introduce high-end qualified teachers by means of bonus fund, encourage enterprises to build a training mode with orders together with colleges, which can form an effective training system and solve the shortage on high-end talents quickly. Aim at the ordinary technical talents, we should se ourselves on the current educational systems of our senior high school, secondary technical school, make them to meet the demands of enterprises by policy guidance, which can enlarge the scales of ordinary technical talents in order to solve the issues on the demands of medium and long terms on talents caused by the growing of enterprises. Solve the issue on the diversified increasing demands on plenty kinds of talents caused by information development via building information technology, experimental se of personnel management, starting the internationalized IT talents trainings. We should rely on the good ecological dwelling conditions to form an attractive policy mechanism. Formulate the policy measures to attract the high-end talents of service outsourcing coming to our city. On population administration and dwelling, etc. work, we’ll provide the maximum convenience. System of building a PostDoc. work station of service outsourcing enterprises to attract overseas personnel to establish business after returning to China; Strengthen the subsidies to the service outsourcing enterprises that employ international high-end talents to attract international and national high-end software talents to come into the local service outsourcing development. Enterprises also need to make the stableness of talents and reservations by “career retains personnel, salary retains personnel, and emotions retain personnel”. We should open a channel of the reasonable flow of talents, build a scientific evaluation system on talents. We should try hard to create a developing environment on talents of “encourage the creations, tolerate failures, and fully use the talents’ abilities”, spare no pains to build the highland of new type talents of information industry in our city.
Forth, we should construct a good environment of public opinions. In order to build a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing, we should unify the idea of staff in each relevant department of the government, which can be turned into a creative action. On building a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing, fully integrate and take advantage of plenty kinds of medium resources, use seminars, famous interview and discuss, subject activities, etc. forms to publicize prominently the practical meanings on building a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing, propagandize the development vantage of Dalian software and service outsourcing. Fully demonstrate the opportunities and challenges lying ahead of building a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing. With a new clue of “Dalian, A New Leading City of Global Software and Service Outsourcing”, which has intensively concentrated the development target of Dalian software development and service outsourcing and put it into The 11th-Five Development Plan of Information Industry in Dalian to carry out.
III Create a carrier and to build a stable platform in conformity with the leading city of global software and service outsourcing
We should strongly enhance the construction of infrastructure and build and optimize a platform that can undertake different service outsourcing businesses and service outsourcing of corporations.
First, we should do a good job in the construction of industrial bases. On the construction of national software industrial base, software export base and service outsourcing base, we should consummate the privately-run operation mechanism supported by government, support and advance the construction and development of the Software Park, actively support the construction of important basic supporting facilities and the establishment of service system, and build a public service and technology supporting platform, a platform for training, educating and practicing talent people and a sustaining system of projects distribution and integration. Support the Park to establish a service system for investment and financing and reinforce the support for the investment and financing of base corporations. Actively advance the construction of important projects, namely, Tengfei Software Park in Lushun South Road, Neusoft International Software Park and Dalian Service Outsourcing Base in Lushun North Road. Exert the advantages of system, optimize service and functions and try to develop quickly. Attract superior software corporations of the city, large quantity of funds, talent people and other sources to assemble towards the software industrial belts in Lushun South Road and form a software industrial group. Construct it into a technological innovation base, a product development base, a talent people training base, a corporation development base and a base of exporting products to earn foreign currency.
Second, we should reinforce the construction of reputation system. Dalian is the first to be awarded the model city of software copyright protection all over the country, occupies one third of the country in CMM evaluation, takes the lead and achieves a certain success in starting up the individual information protection, on the basis of which Dalian accelerates the construction of corporation self-intellectual property declaration and certification system as well as protecting and supporting the corporation under certification on stress, builds up self-contained law system of intellectual property step by step. Establish a corporation guild and alliance of service outsourcing; build a pact system of occupation self-discipline, an access system of distributing personnel, a good faith record system of distributing corporations and a database of occupation honesty to standardize the professional behaviors of the employed and the order of market; perfect the legal clauses of individual information, strictly carry out the commercial secrets of clients. Set up a complaint center of intellectual property, chastise torts and breach of intellectual property according to law. Through the construction of intellectual property service platform, provide convenient, quick and professional information service and creation, protection, administration and exertion of intellectual property.
Third, we should manage the linking platform of the Chinese International Software and Information Service Trade Fair. The Chinese International Software and Information Service Trade Fair is the only national software trade fair admitted by the State Council and the highest level and most influenced trade fair held by the most ministries. Through the platform the province completely displays its information industry. So the software trade fair is an image and a flag of the Liaoning Province and Dalian City. Therefore, it’s necessary to manage professionally and exactly the software trade fair and do well in linking. Bring in some foreign corporations to trade with domestic corporations in Dalian annually, and look for business partners, which can make immeasurable profits, and establish foreign membership and alliances with innovation mode. Organize more companies to issue new technology and share owned sources with every Chinese city in the duration of the software trade fair and advance the software industry to develop fast.
Fourth, we should establish a working mechanism of united promotion. The development of software industry has much to do with institutional units, such as governments, enterprises, and scientific research institutions. Thus as long as we establish a working mechanism in which all units join efforts and closely cooperate with each other, we can promote the information industry and quicken the step to form a concerted effort to construct a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing. We will establish a division system of industry sectors to push forward the flow and reorganization of software industry’s innovative factors. Information Industry Bureau should fully play the leading role of information industry as an administrative department and keep a close watch on the new trend of technological development home and abroad. Besides, Information Industry Bureau should do research on overall situation of Dalian information industry’s development and arrange all tasks to create a healthy external environment for enterprises’ innovative development. All functions of government units, such as guide, plan, harmonization and service should be fully displayed. The plan and guide of software and service outsource should be strengthened. The city’s software and service outsourcing guide should be compiled. The science and technology resource of universities and research institutes of governments should be integrated. We should promote several key fields to tackle key problems of information technology. Resource sharing system should be promoted. Push forward the integration and improvement of resource on the base of science and technology. Put priority on the integration of science and technology and instruments. Strengthen the work of Dalian Information Resource Management Centre. Set up basic information database sharing system step by step. Boost sharing, exploitation and utilization of information resource. Promote and speed up the outsourcing of Dalian software and services. According to the requirement of “Eleventh Five-Year” Development Planning of Dalian Modern Service Industry, we’ll try our best to be a new leading city of global software and service outsourcing in about five years.
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