As a part of government strategy to upgrade China’s manufacturer intensive economy towards a more service oriented one, the Ministry of Education (MoE) recently issued a memo to various colleges and universities under its administration, calling for aggressive actions to certify 1.2 millions outsourcing specialists in the next 5 years.

In order to achieve the goal, MoE asks its colleges and universities to expand the scale of service outsourcing personnel training curriculum, and to be flexible to explore a variety of talents training mode and programs.

In addition, MoE, in conjunction with Ministry of Commerce, is to launch a “National training center for outsourcing services”; which will be responsible for organization and coordination among colleges and universities, training institutions, and outsourcing enterprises at national outsourcing base cities.

The Education Ministry is apparently putting aggressive incentives in place for institutions, colleges and businesses to accomplish such goals; including:

- incentives for enterprises for hiring trainees from these programs
- subsidiary for training tuitions
- tax deduction/credits to eEnterprise for training cost

Other initiatives from the government include:

- Investment to upgrade the infrastructure & HW in national outsourcing base cities
- Investment to launch new certification programs
- Funding for more promotion and international road shows
- Lower tax rate for outsourcing enterprise to 15%
- Perfect & enforce laws on IP protection
- Allow outsourcing enterprise to work on flexible hours
- Venture capital & seed funding in place for promoting the industry

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