Situated in the eastern part of the Asian Continent on the western coast of the Pacific and with a total land area of 9.6 million square km, China is the largest country in Asia and the third largest in the world, next to Russia and Canada. China is such a unique country that combines the magnitude and friendship, nature and culture, history and future.

Abundant in culture treasure and nature resources, China is also a fast-developing country in economy. Since the implement of reform and opening-up policy in 1979, China's economy developed at an unprecedented rate and has become one of the world's fast growing economies. From 1979 to 2005 China's real GDP grew at an average annual rate of 9.6%.

China's accession to the WTO in 2001 and the success of Beijing's bidding for the 2008 Olympic Games boosted the economic reforms and opened the huge market to the rest of the world. Now more and more companies, both local and foreign are itching their way into the bigger market place in China. China is already the world's seventh largest trader. Many economists speculate that China could become the world's largest economy at some point in the near future.

Nowadays in the competitive environment, “Where is the next wave of cost savings and productivity improvements going to come from?” The answer is BPO, which offers a greater level of both cost savings and productivity improvements - for the corporate operating budget. China is emerging as one of the top BPO service providers in recent years. BPO market in China is expected to grow to $24B by 2008.

China's Advantages in BPO:

• Educated, skilled urban workforce
• Low wages
• Off-shore manufacturing and outsourcing know-how already there
• WTO entry and increased Chinese efforts at free trade
• Rapidly developing telecoms infrastructure
• China government efforts to privatize and modernize economy