The Chinese government has earmarked 10 cities in the country for development as major outsourcing centers in a bid to capture a greater share of the technology work that Western multinationals have traditionally outsourced to India and other low-cost destinations.
The first base cities would be Shanghai, Dalian, Xi'an, Shenzhen and Chengdu, but a total of 10 will be used as a basis for the government’s plans to quadruple China’s outsourcing exports by 2010.