Microsoft set to open training center in Wuxi

[OhioChick]

Source: People's Daily Online, China

March 11, 2008

Microsoft China plans to set up an IT training center in Wuxi to turn out skilled professionals to work in the city's emerging IT industry.

Microsoft (China) Co Ltd and the Wuxi government on Sunday signed a deal to establish the training program.

Wuxi New District, the city's hi-tech zone, will provide infrastructure for the training center, while Microsoft will bring the technical platform and program. The center is expected to offer professional IT training to 10,000 students a year.

Yang Weize, Party chief in Wuxi, said it is committed to developing the city into the country's leading outsourcing center.

Wuxi plans to have 100 companies providing international outsourcing services and exporting software by 2010. Each company will employ at least 2,000 staff and will have an export volume of $30 million.



Read more: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90884/6370451.html

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Onward to China, They'll Be Even Cheaper....

[DS1]

1. Hey

I'd like to work at M$. You even speak MY native language!

[thunder rising]

2. Taking our money to educate software developers in China...Outsourcing money!!!

[Bozita]

5. Education is a lot cheaper in China.

It's the bottom line.

[ulysses]

3. the Chinese are now better at capitalism than we are.

[Poll_Blind]

4. Oh I'll fucking bet they are. n/t

PB

[Morereason]

6. Billions of people in the world making $2 a day. Propaganda likes to tell us we can compete

against that. But think about it. This is only one program of many in China and India and they are set to crank out massive graduates in a few years.

Our country is so screwed and clueless

[OhioChick]

7. "Our country is so screwed and clueless"

That we are.

[Doctor Cynic]

8. Not entirely true. I've been through the system.

The Chinese are awesome at mathematics and science, but their education system cares nothing, and nothing, about creativity. From my experiences, there are no enough Chinese people who can speak acceptable English. So, who's going to hire a software geek with no imagination and can only speak Engrish even if you can pay him $5/hour?

Education systems should be teaching creativity and things the Chinese cannot teach. That's the only way to ensure there are good jobs.

[blackspade]

9. Crazy

Does anyone else besides me cringe every time that we set up hi-tech factories/training in China?

It seems that I remember that, oh, seven years ago we had a containment policy of some sort of the Chinese.
With the help of Bush and his republican allies, companies that used to be AMERICAN companies have become internationals that have in turn helped turn communist China into a fascist state.

We have fallen down the rabbit hole. Did Alice in Wonderland have a happy ending?

[Greyhound]

10. "I know just what you're thinking, why didn't I take the blue pill"

There is a counter to this, quality. Inevitably there is always a market for high quality and price is not paramount.