Chengdu Mayor in Bangalore

For Closer Ties with Indian IT & Outsourcing Companies

Inaugurates Direct Flight Between Bangalore and Chengdu
 
A high-level business delegation from major Chinese IT and outsourcing destination Chengdu, led by the city’s Mayor Mr. Ge Honglin, visited Bangalore earlier this week  to promote investment in China. The Mayor inaugurated Air China’s direct flight between Chengdu and Bangalore and traveled to the city in the first flight.
 
The 4-day visit started with an investment conference in the city. The 50- member delegation included experts, government decision makers, domestic and multinational IT firms’ CEOs, leading HR organizations and educational institutes from Chengdu.  The delegates will meet with the senior management of Indian IT and Outsourcing companies to share their experience of doing business in Chengdu and explored possibilities of forming closer business ties between the two countries.
 
“The visit provided us an opportunity to meet existing and potential Indian investors from IT and Outsourcing industry and highlight Chengdu as an attractive business destination. Chengdu is an excellent gateway to China for Indian companies with its huge talent base, low operating cost, generous government support, and presence of large multinational IT and Outsourcing companies. Now with the direct flight service between Bangalore and Chengdu, I foresee more business, cultural and educational, exchange between these two cities,” said Honglin, Mayor of Chengdu, China.
 
Chengdu is known as the center of science, commerce, finance as well as the hub of transportation and communication in Southwest China. In 2008,130 of Fortune 500 enterprises set up businesses in Chengdu making it the most favored destination in Central and Western China for Fortune 500 companies. Apart from being the most developed city, Chengdu is famous for its relaxed life style.

Chengdu tops the chart in Oriental Outlook Weekly’s 2009 evaluation of Chinese free-market cities where essential expatriate business expectations such as cultural appeal, social harmony, access to quality resources and ease of business transaction are measured. There are 42 universities and 660 professional technical schools which produce more than 100,000 graduates every year.