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NIIT to train IT professionals in China
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 21 February 2008, 01:02 IST
Bangalore: The Chinese city of Wuxi has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian technology education firm, NIIT to set up information technology training centers and create a talent pool of 200,000 IT professionals by 2010.
The move reflects China's attitude to transform from its traditional manufacturing sector-driven economy to the services-led economic development model. Located in the Jiangsu province in the heart of Yangtze river delta in Southern China, Wuxi aims to house 100 international service outsourcing and software export enterprises with an annual export volume of over $30 million.
"In the next 10 years, we want to be like what Bangalore today is in the services outsourcing sector," said Yang Weize, Secretary of Wuxi Municipal CPC Committee. He was speaking at a seminar on 'Wuxi-Bangalore Business seminar in service outsourcing cooperation' organised in the city.
There are over 100,000 students pursuing higher education in Wuxi and a multi-level training system for service outsourcing talents is being put in place, Weize said.
NIIT, which has tied up with 129 universities in China and has trained around 50,000 IT professionals in the last 10 years, will now focus extensively on its three training centers in Wuxi. "There is a phenomenal opportunity for services outsourcing sector in China. We will leverage Wuxi's potential to create and train 200,000 IT professionals," said NIIT's president-individual learning solutions G Raghavan.