Kunming Strives for National Service Outsourcing Demonstration City within Five Years
Source: daily.clzg.cn View: 279 Date: 2015-10-28

In order to expand service trade scale, to optimize service trade structure, to improve service export ability, and to improve international competitiveness and influences of “Yunnan Service”, recently, Yunnan provincial government has published “The Implementation Opinions on Rapidly Developing Service Trade” (referred as to “The Opinions”). “The Opinions” indicates that until 2020, service outsourcing business in Yunnan province will reach 1.1 billion USD; among them, amount of offshore outsourcing will be 100 million USD. The province will cultivate 1 or 2 provincial service outsourcing demonstration cities; Kunming also will strive for national service outsourcing demonstration city.

Advantages: Kunming has Specific Advantages of Location and Finance.

According to understanding, in the year of 2008, Kunming has been approved by national and international experts, became “National Software Talent International Training (Kunming) Base”, and become the No.4 telecommunication export area in China. Industrial insider analyzed and believed that considering geographical location, Kunming is an important hub of the southern Silk Road locating in important point of route to Southeast Asia, South Asia and West Asia, also is the center of five-hour air circle in Asia with specific advantages to develop service outsourcing. Considering special storage of Kunming, the small language majors in colleges and universities in Kunming such as Vietnamese, Lao, Burmese, Thai Language, and Cambodian have cultivated huge amount of talents, which is specific advantage that other cities relatively not have. Besides that, in the process of constructing radiation center to South Asia and Southeast Asia in Yunnan province, Kunming will be the core of whole center, important threshold of “One Belt & One Road” strategy and RMB accounting center of Southeast Asia, which provides bases for Kunming to undertake global service outsourcing especially finance outsourcing.

"Consolidate and improve service outsourcing gathering center functional position of Kunming; construct provincial service outsourcing demonstration city; strive for national service outsourcing demonstration.” “The Opinions” indicates that shall lead service outsourcing enterprises to gather in Central area of Yunnan, Ruili Key Development and Opening-up Experimental Zone, Jianghe Comprehensive Free Tax Zone and other parks. Shall promote service outsourcing gathering development based on cultivating main enterprises of service outsourcing, and rapidly cultivate service outsourcing demonstration park and cities.

Aims: Export and Import Amount of Service in “the 13th Five-Year” will increase more than 12% averagely.

"The Opinions” puts forward that the development aim of service trade in Yunnan province is during the period of “the 13th Five-Year”, export and import amount of service outsourcing in Yunnan province will increase 12% or more averagely; until 2020, Yunnan province will reach more than 10 billion USD, and further increase proportion of service trade accounting for total value of foreign trade. Service trade structure will be continually optimized; traditional service trade will continually expand; the proportion of emerging service will be obvious increased. Service outsourcing will achieve breakthrough development. The scale of using foreign capital and investment aboard from service industry will gradually expand; quality and level also will gradually improve; the proportion from “One Belt & One Road” costal South Asian and Southeast Asian countries accounting for service export amount in Yunnan province will gradually increase.

Measurements: To Greatly Develop Emerging Service Trade and Cross-over E-Commerce

Yunnan province will greatly develop engineering design, engineering supervision and other construction service markets based on international engineering contracting; greatly develop cross-over transport and modern logistics based on cross-over transport network to South Asia and Southeast Asia. Greatly develop emerging service trade, actively develop education service projects with comparative advantages to South Asia and Southeast Asia, and expand scale of international students in Yunnan province; build a batch of featured service export bases based on current each park, development area and pilot area. Expand and make service export functions in special regulatory area of customs and regulatory area of free tax perfectly, and extend functions of international carrying trade, international logistics, transfer service, R & D, international accounting, sales and distribution and storage.

"Build cross-over e-commerce service platform; support service trade enterprises with independent IP rights to attend international competition via e-commerce.” “The Opinions” indicates to support multi-language e-commerce platform construction for cross-over trade, to promote cross-over e-commerce service development for global industrial chain cooperation; to build a batch of large multinational service enterprises with outstanding major businesses and strong competitiveness; to cultivate some service brands with relatively strong international influence; to support development of small & medium-size enterprises with features and innovation, to lead small & medium-size enterprises to integrate in global supply chain; to support each service enterprise to launch investment and cooperation aboard via new construction, merger and acquisition as well as cooperation; to support and launch technological R & D investment cooperation aboard, to build international marketing networks and famous brands and to increase influence of aboard commerce. “The Opinions” also puts forward to support service enterprises to participate into investment, construction and management overseas economic and trade cooperation zone; to encourage enterprises to build overseas free tax warehouse; to actively build cross-over industrial chain and to drive provincial labor export and goods, service, and technologies export.

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