On the afternoon of August 23, 2004, Mr. Zhou Gang, the former China’s ambassador to India, inspected and visited the Guiyang Software Park (GYSP) and some enterprises in the park, accompanied by Inspector Zhao Zongzhe from the Guiyang Municipal Government, Vice Secretary-General Jiang Xianfang and other directors of departments concerned, etc.
During the process of inspection, Dr. Mo Liping, the director of GYSP, briefed Mr. Zhou on GYSP’s general situation, including fairly perfect physical and material equipment, preferential polices, favourable geographical surroundings, good natural environment, convenient traffic and communication, etc., while she asked Mr. Zhou for advice on successful experiences and modes of India---the software power---in development and research of software products, highly effective team spirit, preferential polices of the local government, and management, innovation and development of software enterprises for the convenience of learning advanced experiences from software enterprises in India to promote the development of software industry in Guiyang.
Mr. Zhou stated his view on current situation, trend and advantage of India’s software industry. He said that, during the latest years, software industry of India developed very quickly and India had become a software power in the world. Compared with our country, the scale of enterprises, output value and products for exportation abroad of India’s software industry were fairly better than China. From the year of 2001, India increased its software industry by 25% each year and software products for exportation abroad accounted for 60%-70% of the total. There were six important factors for its development at top speed. First, local government attached great importance to software industry. In 1991, India government had made the software development plan as one idea for economic developing at the beginning of its economic reform. Second, old products had been transformed well. Third, India paid great attention to education. Forth, India had the superiority of language. Fifth, India had international advantage.
Sixth, Indian enterprises placed a special emphasis on teamwork. Inspector Zhao Zongzhe agreed with Mr. Zhou very much on his view. He pointed that our software enterprises must be based on national market and aim at economic development of Guiyan city and Guizhou province in order to enhance their competitive power during the course of opening up markets. Our enterprises should learning the team spirit and experiences from India enterprises. The municipal government and the provincial government would increase the IT development in the next step and the core factor is software.