Cisco Works With Chengdu to Build Tianfu Smart+Connected City
Chengdu China, On May 20, 2010, the world's leading network solutions provider Cisco Systems in the US formally signed two MOU with Chengdu, to establish Tianfu Smart+Connected City project and increase collaboration with local educational institutions.. The newly established Cisco sales company will be located at Chengdu Tianfu Software Park, the biggest software park in China, the location will be the center of Localization operation of Cisco China.
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Cisco Works With Chengdu to Build Tianfu Smart+Connected City
-- Chuncheng Li, secretary of Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, Honglin Ge, Mayor of Chengdu, and Owen Chan, the Senior Vice President of Cisco, President and CEO of Cisco Greater China attended the ceremony and delivered speech.
Mr. Owen Chan said, Chengdu, as the center of business, finance, science and technology, and a hub of transportation and communication in Southwest China, the abundant talent pool Chengdu has is the most important factor Cisco determined to settle down in Chengdu 1 year ago.
Chengdu, one of the 11 national software bases in China, and also one of the fastest growing Software outsourcing cities in China, currently has up to 1.65 million technicians, and 130 000 software practitioners, according the a report released by Chengdu Tianfu Software Park Co., Ltd, the operator of Tianfu Software Park.
In rent one year, a large number of international IT enterprises including Accenture, DHL, Maersk, Alibaba, Manulife, Amazon, Wipro etc. selected Chengdu to implant their back-offices or development centers to take advantage of the good talent pool and low operation costs.
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Tianfu Software Park (TSP), located at the core of the New Tianfu City of Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone (Chengdu Hi-tech Zone), is an ecological park of international standard, serving global software and service outsourcing players. It is developed and constructed with full funding from Chengdu Hi-tech Investment Group Co., Ltd. It has a total built-up area of over 1.1 million sq. m, with 790,000 sq. m already being furnished and put into service.
TSP has a grand and rational architectural layout and is equipped with first-class supporting facilities. It has an ideal environment for working and living. TSP has attracted many world-renowned enterprises to set-up business, including IBM, SAP, NEC, Symantec, NCS, Accenture, Huawei, Ubisoft, Alibaba, Mearsk,, Nokia Siemens Networks, Tencent, Wipro and NIIT Tenants here focus on fields such as ITO / BPO, network communication, software development, digital entertainment, information security, back-office operations, and talents training.
As the major base for software and service outsourcing industry development in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, TSP has already become the key center for the industry in China. Meanwhile, Chengdu has risen to be a crucial city, following Beijing and Shanghai, for strategic layout in China for large enterprises from home and abroad!
