TIANJIN, China, Aug. 2 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- At the meeting of the 2007 Tianjin Binhai New Area Summit Forum on Development of Outsourced Services and Talent Education and Training held in Tianjin on August 1, 2007, Li Yong, Director of the Management Committee of TEDA, and Gao Wei, President of the Dalian Software Park Co. Ltd., signed a letter of intent for strategic cooperation and announced both parties would cooperate to establish the Tianjin Binhai Industrial Park for Outsourced Services.
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The Tianjin Binhai Industrial Park for Outsourced Services occupies a land area of nearly 900,000 square meters, which will be developed according to a world-class infrastructure standard, and the first phase, involving 100,000 square meters, will be put into use successively from the end of 2008.
As a base city for outsourced services catering to 11 countries, Tianjin has a unique geographical advantage, a talent-training system for the outsourced service industry and a comprehensive competitive advantage of a high industrial assembling degree. Now it is engaged in developing a high-tech, high-efficiency, low energy-consuming and pollution-free outsourced software industry.
TEDA, one of the two operators in the Tianjin Binhai Industrial Park for Outsourced Services, is the best state-level development area in China. Another operator, the Dalian Software Park Co. Ltd. (DLSP), has successfully developed the Dalian Software Park into a specialized software park that has the clearest international characteristics and incorporates production, study and research, and into an industrial base for outsourced services of the largest scale in China.
About Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA)
Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) was established in 1984 with the approval of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the first state-class economic-technological development areas in the country.
TEDA is located in the center of a larger area bordering Bohai Sea and the east of the Asia-Europe Land Bridge, thus serving as the gate to the two super cities of Beijing and Tianjin, and the throat connecting the northeast of China. By the end of 2006, 4,299 foreign companies have landed in TEDA. Of the Fortune 500 companies, 57 multinational companies, from 10 countries and regions, including such well-established multinational giants as Motorola, Samsung and Toyota, invested in 123 enterprises in TEDA. In 2000, "Fortune" listed TEDA as one of the most highly recommended economic areas in China. In 2002 UNIDO listed TEDA as one of the most dynamic areas of China together with Shenzhen, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Shanghai Pudong and Xi'an High-tech Park.
