Archive for the ‘Suzhou’ Category
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
With tightening land policies and environmental regulations, Chinese administrators of Economic Development Zones (EDZs) are getting picky about who they accept into their investment areas.
I was recently with a client in the Hangzhou High and New Technology Zone to investigate leasing factory work space in which they can set ...
Posted in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Chongqing, China Development Trends | 6 Comments »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I recently had a charming visit from representatives of Ascendas, a commercial realestate developer. Ms. Ge and Mr. Fan are based out of Shanghai, and traveled into Suzhou to chat about developments of the company throughout Asia. I was already acquainted with Ms. Ge from the AMCHAM Shanghai Conference at ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, China R&D, Services Outsourcing Trends, Nanjing, Suzhou, Dalian, Hangzhou, China Development Trends | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 4th, 2007
The June 2007 issue of the China Economic Review has a feature article on the Investment Trends of Suzhou, especially around the R&D, IT and BPO spaces. The name of the article is The Starbucks Factor. I was quoted extensively in the article (happily, because nothing seemed to be taken ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, China R&D, Services Outsourcing Trends, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, China Development Trends | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
I spent half a day last week with local government administrators of the Suzhou Industrial Park International Science Park (SIPIP). Actually, I live quite close to the Science Park, about a three minute drive from there. But the Park is quite different from the rest of SIP, which is a ...
Posted in China BPO, China R&D, China IT Outsourcing, Services Outsourcing Trends, China Development Trends, Suzhou, Doing Business in China | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
A recent report in the Asia Times Online cited, ”China's Ministry of Commerce will launch a project with an annual budget of at least 100 million yuan ($12.5 million) to set up 10 bases for service outsourcing over the coming three to five years, according to an earlier report by ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, Services Outsourcing Trends, Suzhou, China Development Trends, Doing Business in China | No Comments »
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Recently I was at the offices of Suzsoft, a Suzhou-based Software Development Outsourcing company that also offers Offshore Development Center services primarily to American companies. The company has about 600 employees, up from the 400 I had learned about when I first encountered the company four months earlier. The CEO ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, Services Outsourcing Trends, Suzhou, China Development Trends, Doing Business in China | No Comments »
