ATRE - China focuses on mobile internet

Is China going to beat India in the IT outsourcing trade? Yes, said Wang Wenjing, chairman of UFsoft, the largest ERP vendor in China. UFsoft has 4,000 employees in China and serves about 300,000 clients, Wang claimed. With its currently 2.8 million college graduates and 290 million mobile phones – compared to 80 million internet connections – going mobile it the most obvious direction to take. Wang: “Chinese users are not that much used to the PC and a keyboard as the users in the US are, we have a very different historical background.”
China’s software developers will focus more than India on those mobile solutions, Wang said. Games are already the largest mobile business in China, and that will only expand. Wang: “India was ten years earlier than China, but we will catch up in the competition with India.”
Wang spoke at ATRE, the Asian Technology Roundtable Exhibition on Wednesday and Thursday in Shanghai.