Dalian, a rapidly growing city in north-eastern of China, was under Japanese occupancy for 40 years since year 1905. Albeit those years Chinese were brutally ragged and violated, this nightmarish experiences and memories had gradually faded when time flied. Not only that the Japanese's cultural affinity is still deeply-entrenched in Dalian society and its vicinity. Chinese there speak fluent japanese language, and when strolling through the enchanting, aptly named Japanese First Street in downtown Dalian, you will bump into many Japanese-style restaurants, with exact faux rice-paper lamps and shoji sliding doors, as well as Kimono-clad women standing out of these restaurants to acquire any passers-by.

This bravo atmosphere thus has atrracted many Japanese MNCs like Hitachi, NEC, Matsushita, Sony etc to establish their support center or software house in Dalian. Figure shows that $375 million stands as Japanese outsourcing to Dalian in 2004, which it is a double-level amount from 2002. Spontaneously peoples relate Dalian to Banglore which is major US-based MNCs outsourcing in India. Despite there is still long journey for Dalian to reach $17 billion in revenues brought by Americans to Banglore, it's yet somehow a nimble and steady step taken by Dalian city council to grab this opportunity and let the figures soar organically based on some of their strong factors.

Main factor is the easiness to seal the deal with low costs, yet skillful and intuitive knowledge-based workers. Averagely it's around $300 monthly salary to hire a software engineer, which is tenth times cheaper than their Japanese counterpart.

Secondly, the much cheaper land in Dalian is something to delight Japanese too. Other than that, all 22 universities and technical institus had produced 26,000 experienced software engineer to fulfill the work demand, and these higher institutions ensure also 3,800 software engineering graduates annually. Plus the generous incentives offered by local government, it's undoubtedly something irresistable for Japanese MNCs to flock to Dalian.