The Fifth Sino-Japan Software and Service Outsourcing Conference of 2012 was held in Chengdu on Feb 21. The Chengdu Association of Sourcing Services invited over 180 Chinese and Japanese delegates from governments, companies, institutions and industrial organizations.

Topics for discussion included the Business Process Outsourcing, embedded IC design, SAAS product applications, logistics information and outsourcing talent training.

The guests exchanged ideas on software outsourcing in cloud times and also industrial migration and cooperation after an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011.

Japanese guests also visited the Chengdu Municipal Government and local enterprises including Tianfu Software Park, Dujiangyan Outsourcing Industrial Park and Chengdu Winnersoft Co Ltd.

Chengdu attaches great importance to the software and outsourcing industry, which have become major indicators of an annual average growth rate that has reached over 30 percent in the region. Chengdu is a competitive and attractive area for software industries such as Fortune 500 companies, well-known domestic software companies and numerous local enterprises.

Three of the top 10 service outsourcing enterprises in the world - Accenture, IBM and Wipro, and 19 Fortune 100 companies - have operations in Chengdu. Six of the top ten domestic service outsourcing enterprises have set up branch offices and over forty multinational companies have established global delivery centers, shared services centers and research and development centers locally.

Industrial departments and associations in Chengdu have established strategic relationships with the Okinawa Prefectural Government, Japan External Trade Organization and Japan-China Economic Association. Several local enterprises have established long-term business relations with Fujitsu, NTTDATA, Nomura Securities and Toyota. A new business model has taken shape amidst the rapid rise of its outsourcing trade with Japan.