Chengdu Tianfu Software Park is one of China's top 10 software industrial bases. Located in the southern part of the Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, the park is also one of China’s national software export and IT service outsourcing demonstration zones.

The total planned construction area is over 2.2 million square meters, with 800,000 square meters already put into use. The remaining area is scheduled to be completed by 2011.

Chengdu is witnessing a rapid growth in its software industry. Its software industrial revenue yielded a total of 86.3 billion yuan ($13.67 billion) in 2010, contributing to more than 5 percent of Chengdu's GDP, an increase of almost 80 billion yuan from 6.6 billion yuan in 2003.

Tianfu Software Park was opened in 2005 as a software and information technology outsourcing (ITO) hub of Chengdu city, the provincial capital of Sichuan. After five years of development, the park has become the fastest-growing professional software park in China.

The park has attracted about 200 famous domestic and international enterprises, including International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), the German software corporation SAP, Nippon Electric Company (NEC), General Electric Company (GE), NCS Pet Ltd, Huawei, Alibaba, Maersk, Siemens, Ericsson, Tencent, WIPRO, DHL and Manulife Financial.

Foreign funded companies account for 40 percent of total companies settled in the park, including 23 World Top 500 companies. The total number of employees from the companies has reached 30,000.

Industrial clusters of business software, information technology outsourcing, digital entertainment, telecommunications and buffered psychological solution (BPO)/back office service centers have formed in the Tianfu Software Park, which makes the park an ideal choice for domestic and international reputed software and information outsourcing companies.

In order to develop the city's software and ITO service, the Chengdu municipal government has invested over 200 million yuan annually to support the software industries since 2007. The local government also publicized a variety of preferential policies in support of the IT companies, including a land leasing subsidy and favorable land use prices.

Companies in the park also enjoy reductions or exemptions from enterprise income tax, value-added tax rebates and business tax exemption.

In order to meet the growing demand for skilled workers in the software and ITO industries, Chengdu established a Chengdu Software Talent Training Association in 2007. With its large talent pool and optimized industrial facilities, the park will help promote Chengdu in China's software and ITO service industry.

Edited by Tang Zhi and Rakhee