Google Android Gives China Outsourcing Companies Big Hope to Catching up in Outsourcing

Mlogy.com, Google’s Android 1.5  is facing a tough competition in catching up with iPhone 3.0 in US, but not everywhere else. China absolutely is Google’s biggest hope.

China’s mobile released its version of mobile operation sytem recently, which is based on Google’s Android platform. With more than 400M subscribers, China Mobile failed to made agreement with Apple for its iPhone. As the result, China Mobile might be the largest operator for Android soon.

Besides OMS, several manufactors had reported plans to release Anroid based phone in China, of cause, not only for China Mobile. This makes China the biggest potential market for Android and most likely will not face the same level of competition it faced in US with Apple.

With a large resources pool of expereinces Java developers,  Android platform is far more popular than iPhone in the development communities.  Not only that, the Chinese operators and government all like the open source nature of the platform, so they can take over the control. I met lots of developers who are excited with Android development while I was in China one month ago. All of them were Java developers.

  Break down of subscriber data in Jan (sohu.com)

	China Mobile	China Telecom	China Unicom
The total number ofusers (by January 31, 2009)	463，920，000	28,930,000	134,000,000
Number of new users in January 2009	6,670,000	1,020,000	839,000
Number of new users in December 2008	7，070，000	-6 0，000	424，000

KnowledgeSurf Updated Its Flash Flex Based Online Poker Game Platform

Xi’an KnowledgeSurf Technologies, one of the top 50 IT outsourcing providers in China focusing on rich media(flash/flex/actionscript/AIR) and web(PHP/Java) solutions, announced that its latest release of  online game product of poker game platform has passed the load testing for 10,0000 players.

With skilled in-house Flash/Flex/Java/PHP developers and Graphic designers, Xi’an KnowledgeSurf, located at Xi’an Software Park, has been working in poker game industry for more than 3 years. Based on the previous experience, KnowledgeSurf keeps optimizing the poker game platform and wants to build it as one complete best practice solution for worldwide clients who are looking for the best performing poker game platform with many types of poker games integrated.

“It is a comprehensive poker game platform with complex dynamic configuration ability, competitive implementation on game management, bot management and payment gateway integration. We have finished games of Texas Hold’em, BlackJack, 13 Cards, Baccarat, Slot, Roulette, Casino War and so on, all the games can be integrated to the poker game platforms.” said by Sean Hao, VP of Xi’an KnowledgeSurf Technologies, “And today, we are pleased to announce that our poker game platform has successfully passed the load run for 10,0000 players.” He added.

With the expertise of flash/flex/Java/PHP and the comprehensive feature on the game such as live message chat and Avatar, Xi’an KnowledgeSurf is committed to provide the poker game platform with the best user experience to its global clients.

“Since more and more outsourcing service buyers choose China Xi’an as their outsourcing destination, we have got many inquiries in regard to our poker game development services recently. To enhance our capability meeting the market needs, Xi’an KnowledgeSurf has invested more Senior Flash/Flex/Java/PHP developers into poker game development.” said by Serena, Sales Manager of Xi’an KnowledgeSurf Technologies.

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Xi’an Software Park Chose by More Multinational Enterprises

Xi-an.biz.  Many multinational enterprises, consider tightening their belts and, particularly, under the impressions of the cold spell caused by the global economic crisis, are closing down workshops in some countries or, as a minimum, trim their staff. Costal areas of our country, likewise, experience this situation. Plenty of JV-companies went even bankrupt.  Xian Region and, especially Xian HTDZ, experience an inverse situation, however. More than 10 foreign enterprises are currently preparing to move into Xian. On Feb. 26th, the Asia investigation group of American Cooper Industry inspected their new construction workshops of Xian, which were set up on schedule, although it was snowing heavily. This plantIt is the first factory of American Cooper Industry in Xian. After establishment of the first workshop, they will move part of their production lines of American, British, Denmark, Mexico areas to Xian. Total invested amount will be US$ 20 bn. Mr. Wen Jun-ming ( GM of Cooper Xian Fusegear Co.,Ltd ) said cost were the most important issue under pressure of the crisis, and regarding cost concerned, Xian as a production location is much more advantageous than European and American areas. On March 10th, workers were busy for the gas sensor production lines in the workshop of Xian System Sensor Electronics Co. Ltd. This production line was being moved to Xian from their British workshop. Annual production value will increase by about US$ 50 mn. It is estimated that all System Sensors production lines in U.K. will be moved into Xian before 2010. American System Sensor Co. decided to move their British workshops to Xian when the crisis was looming large. They become active and moved one of their production lines to Xian for trial production. But as there were no redundant workshops in Xi,an area available at that time, HTDZ supplied the ground for System Sensor to assist them to build the new workshop here, and selected the technical employees for them with preferential policies. The production line was officially taken into operation last Oct. Mr. Zhang Xiong-fei (Vice-GM of Xi’an System Sensor Electronic Co. Ltd) said lower cost are one important aspect for foreign companies to choose Xi’an area, another reason is the availability of technical talents. With American Cooper Co. Ltd., productivity rate was, more or less, 75%, when they were in the U.K workshops; it is now up to 95% in Xi’an area after technical innovations. At present, the company is considering exchange of their all British production workshops against workshops in Xi��an. They will also move their Australian and Canadian production lines to Xi’an. Further on, it was reported that American NOWHere has moved one production line to Xi’an from Italy since last Aug. They are, moreover, planning to move another 2 production lines here in 2009. Vishay moved 6 production lines from Mexico to Xi’an HTDZ last year and prepares to move another production line here in 2009. The investor of Huatian Telecomnic stopped production in America and Japan and decided to move the main production lines to Xi’an HTDZ. At present, more than 20 foreign enterprises are discussing with HTDZ removals from their European and American production locations to Xi’an HTDZ. Nearly all multinational enterprises which were affected by the Crisis in 2008 are concentrating their investment. Under the adding tensed economic situation many fortune 500 enterprises, such as a. m. American Cooper Industry, Dezhou Instruments, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Finnish Nokia, German Siemens, also Pingan Insurance of China are investing and seting up their branches or workshops in Xi’an area. About 60 foreign companies were approved for investment. Why do so many foreign companies venture into Xi’an, particularly, into Xi’an HTDZ during the hardship period? Against the background of the global economic crisis analyses of experts have it that on the one hand, it becomes much tougher for foreign companies to draw loans from the banks for their regular operations. In addition, market shrinkage and an increase of operating cost forces them to react. On the other hand, the crisis shows much less effects on the domestic market than on markets abroad and, within China, less effects in the centre, western and north-western provinces than in those at the coast. Among the advantageous areas within the country, again, Xi’an area is favoured, owing to its a. m. special conveniences. The way to Xi/an, by moving production lines here, is consequently the best choice to alleviate consequences of the crisis and to avoid additional losses. In addition, abundant human resources, high-quality labours and low-cost are at easy reach for investors. Inversely, investment by these multinational enterprises will be bound to boost development of local industries. In order to procure more investment opportunities, HTDZ is establishing new policies to attract these multinational enterprises for removal of their advanced manufacturing industries here. Such preferences include: 1. To abate certain cost for applying multinational enterprises, and allow a certain subsidies for rent fees 2. To provide certain subsidies for the movement, transportation and installation of the equipment, for instance. 3. To provide certain housing subsidies for talents, if they are prepared to work in Xi��an for a certain period; more preferential policies and subsidies are foreseen for their Children at school age. 4. To provide certain discounts for loans, if foreign company employees or talents moved equipments are up to certain value to Xi’an. 5. To extend the number of international schools to provide for an educational environment for foreigners, if required.  Source: Xi’an High Tech Development Zone.

China Will Lead In Mobile Outsourcing After 30 Billion Investment In 3G Infrastructure

GlobalSourcingInfo.org Santa Clara. The new wave of SmartPhones lead by Android and iPhone combines with the evolving of 3G network, give China, the world’s largest mobile market, a great opportunity to lead in mobile outsourcing.

China had been seen as a follower of India in outsourcing industry for decades.  It will still take years for China to even build the infrature to support large scale collaboration with US enterprises. Most of large US companies chose India as their primary global R&D center out side of US, like Oracle, Intel, and so on. However, with world’s largest mobile operator jumped into 3G network and Android powered smart phone, followed by China Unicom’s deal with Apple for its iPhone 3.0, things are changing

China is far ahead of Indina for 3G infrastrcuture. The three operators in China annouced more than 30 billion USD combined investment plan on its 3G infrastrcuture. The plan is bigger than most of the developed countries.  With world’s largest mobile subsriber base, China indeed will be able to produce large numbers of software companies just for its domestic 3G and SmartPhone development needs. Late last year, China exceeded US became world’s No.1 for internet users. However, it is just a beginning. With the deployment of 3G network this year and smartphones, China willdefinitely have  world’s largest Mobile Internet community. 

Your may want to ask, what does this to do with mobile outsourcing? It is clear that, its hard for team of developers who cannot use 3G network with a smartphone at their daily life to compete with another team of developers in China who uses them at their daily life. With the infrastruture, the market, the user experiences,  China’s outsourcing developers soon will have some thing they had dreamed for decade: advantages.

I don’t have the numbers to show you how soon, but I knew, its coming, no late then 2010.

China Operator’s investment in 3G (Source: Sohu.com):

	China Mobile	China Telecom	China Unicom
Plan of 2009	Invest  58.8 billion to establish about 60,000 new TD base stations, Make the network cover the business hotspots of 238 prefecture-level cities.	80 billion investment in three years to upgrade and transform, and optimize the CDMA networks, to strengthen the network signal coverage.	60 billion investment (make 3G services cover 282 cities within the year of 2009,  55 of these cities should be done in the first half year).

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