International Cooperation Symposium of China Software and IT Industries was hosted by The Ministry of Science and Technology of the P.R.China, Chinese Academy of Sciences and People’s Government of Beijing Municipality in Beijing on November 13-14,2008. It was organized by ZGC Science Park Administrative Committee and People’s Government of Haidian District, Beijing and was co-organized by ZGC Haidian Science Park Administrative Committee, Beijing Software Enterprise Advisory Center, Beijing Association of Sourcing Service and Softtek.

Mr.SHAN Qingjing, Deputy Director-General of Department of Trade in Service of Minister of Commerce and Mr.YU Jun, Deputy Chief of the People’s Government of HaiDian District made a brilliant opening speech separately. Intechno attended ITO & BPO, one of two parallel tracks in the afternoon, the other one is called FP 7call 4 and Future Internet.

Madam CHENG Yuhua, Deputy Director General, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Mr. Cyrill Eltschinger, CEO of Softtek jointly delivered their keynote speech on “Source Code China-The New Global Hub of IT Outsourcing”, other speakers such as Kevin ZOU, VP and Chief Technology Officer, Affiliated Computer Service (ACS),Inc., Mr. Eric Rongley, CEO of Bleum Inc.,Mr.Stefan Schmitt, Team Leader, Astrazeneca Company,Mr.ZHU Yeqing,IT Vendor Management,GE Capital made their excellent speeches receiving a warm applause.

The meeting made us realize that challenges and opportunities would face China software and IT industry, which calls for firms to shift into an innovation environment in order to make business flourishing.

The meetings also offer opportunities which helped participants understand each other better and developed some potential space for them, leading to some immeasurable benefits.