China building world's largest IT hub

Source: Times of India

PTI< TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007 04:18:58 PM>

BEIJING: Seeking to give a stiff challenge to India's booming software industry, China has started constructing the world's largest software and IT services hub in Dalian, a coastal city in Northeast China.

"Stretching over 40 kilometres, we'll build Lushun South Road into not only China's Silicon Valley, but the world's leading IT city with a first-class environment," Mayor of Dalian, Xia Deren said at the launch ceremony.

The development of the Dalian Tiandi Software Hub will involve a total investment of 15 billion yuan from Hong Kong-based Shui On Group and Dalian-based Yida Group.

The city plans to increase its software exports almost eight-fold to $3.5 billion by 2012. In 2006, Dalian exported $450 million worth of software products and IT services, accounting for almost one-third of the country's software outsourcing revenue.




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Look out, India......

That the Chinese government is using this technology to suppress information, not share it. And the current US government (Congress included) appears hell-bent to follow China's example.

plants to produce the pirated software, music, and movies that they steal on a daily basis from the rest of the world?

largest communist country in the world by buying their exports. The fact that we have thrown away our national security is absolutely amazing to me.

The 21st century is shaping up to be an Asian century, led by China, but with India and Japan not far behind. Our only hope is that someone like Mao will come back into power and cause the Chinese economy to implode and become internationally irrelevant as it was for decades under Mao. I don't think that is going to happen, but it is a volatile situation there, so you never know.

The US will become what England is today, only a bigger and stronger version. A past world power with a decent standard of living. We will probably still be the leader of the English-speaking world, since we are the largest, and could reasonably have a prosperity like that the Europeans, the world powers before us, have, though we would not be the economic and military leader of the world. No country's international dominance lasts forever. I may not like it, but that is the real world.

Alas, I believe that with foriegn governments holding our currency, and ultimately, our economy hostage, we are doomed to irrelevance. We have no money except that which our overlords give to us. I pity all future generations for the gift that was squandered...

The U.S. will be the Mexico of the 21st century.

A bigger and stronger version, but still a land of serfs.

Boatloads of Americans will risk shark-infested seas to land on Chinese shores and do IT work that the Chinese won't do for a pennies on the Yuan.

Just a fear.

home to America and those software programs will be produced by China

if a War starts does America really think everything will flow smoothly

America is so screwed
all for Cheap labor

Corporations are going to get the comeuppance

China will show Bill Gates