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5. The Development of the Chinese ICT Industry and Japanese Firms’ Offshoring: With a Focus on Dalian’s Case

Author : Minghua Jin

Published in: Innovative ICT Industrial Architecture in East Asia

Publisher: Springer Japan

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Abstract

Dalian is a major destination of offshoring of software development and BPO for Japanese and Western clients. Large reasons for the successful development of software and information service industry in this city are the ample supply of human resources, especially Japanese-speaking labor forces, and the ICT industrial development policy of the Dalian municipal government. The government clearly raised the objective of making the city as the offshore destination for Japanese ICT firms and promoted the city’s industrial structure reform from the heavy and chemical industry to the software and information service industry. Taking advantage of the superior initial conditions such as its historical and geographical relations with Japan and its relatively cheap labor resources, Dalian pursued the formation of the cluster of the software and information service industry. Referring to Porter’s industrial cluster framework, this chapter explores the development of the Dalian’s industrial structure.

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Footnotes
1
“Government assisting and civil run” means that the public sector assists in the actual operations of the private sector.
 
2
The “1000-100-10 Project” was a plan to nurture 1000 firms of outsources, to obtain outsourcing contracts from 100 foreign multinational firms, and to construct ten outsourcing cities in China, by 2010.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Development of the Chinese ICT Industry and Japanese Firms’ Offshoring: With a Focus on Dalian’s Case
Author
Minghua Jin
Copyright Year
2017
Publisher
Springer Japan
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55630-5_5