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Software management institute set up in Dalian
By Zhu Chengpei and Zhang Xiaomin (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-18 16:19

DALIAN: 皇冠体育app鈥檚 first software management institute was set up Monday in the coastal city of Northeast 皇冠体育app鈥檚 Liaoning province.

鈥淭he cultivation of high-level software professionals will facilitate the further development of the country鈥檚 IT sector,鈥� said Vice Mayor Dai Yulin, also President of Dalian Software Industry Management Institute (SIMI).

鈥淪IMI is 皇冠体育app鈥檚 first software management institute that is positioned to train high-level software talents,鈥� said Dai.

According to him, the software practitioners鈥� capacities can not meet the demand of the software sector鈥檚 growth.

鈥淭herefore, we need to cultivate more advanced professionals with outstanding capacities in leadership, management, and marketing,鈥� he said.

SIMI鈥檚 program is warmly welcomed by the local software practitioners.

The first group of 24 trainees comes from 15 enterprises like Neusoft, NEC and HP.

鈥淲e can learn from the seasoned teachers here and improve our abilities in managing practices,鈥� said Zhao Gang, a trainee from a local software company.

According to the teaching plan of the institute, SIMI will train 1,000 advanced managers and 1,600 primary management staff in the next three years.

Dai Yulin said the city had accumulated a potential advantage in the talents pool with Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information, 皇冠体育app鈥檚 first and biggest software institute.

鈥淲e now have about 70,000 people that are engaged in the city鈥檚 software sector. More than 40,000 of them have over three years鈥� working experience,鈥� Dai introduced.

鈥淪ome of them can be trained to be advanced managers,鈥� he added.

Those qualified trainees may get a subsidy of as much as 80 percent of the tuition fee from Dalian鈥檚 special fund for software talents, according to a SIMI pamphlet.

鈥淓nterprises will rely more on the high-level qualified talents to upgrade its leadership and management in order to cope with the global crisis,鈥� said Sun Zhenyao, Honorary President of SIMI and Board Chairman of HiSoft Technology International Ltd, one of the founders of the institute.

Dalian Mayor Xia Deren joined Sun at the opening ceremony.

鈥淭he IT sector is not safe from the global economic turmoil. I think the companies can take it as an opportunity to make preparation for the future,鈥� Xia said.

鈥淎fter 10 years鈥� development, Dalian鈥檚 software and service outsourcing industry has developed rapidly. What we need most now is advanced talents, especially high-level management professionals. We can take this opportunity to reserve more talents for the further development,鈥� he suggested.