24) Intellectual Property Rights in China

In recent years, China has rapidly grown as one of the world's most important providers of oversea software outsourcing services. There are a number of issues, despite many of compelling factors, for software development in China.

1) Employees with ten years experience are hard to find as the market emerges.

2) The want for English language skills is for the most part, considered as a disadvantage.

3) The country’s picture of not protecting the intellectual property well may probably be the most quoted concern with outsourcing to China.

Solution: How importance it is to protect the intellectual property well should be recognized by the Chinese government. As a new member of the WTO, China has set some laws and enforcing practices, in accordance with the WTO’s regulation about Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Behaviors such as punishment to some native enterprises, who copied others’ music or videos, are positive signals of China’s determination to obey the rules.

China has phenomenal potential to be an offshore outsourcing power like India. All that China needs to do is to train competent project managers, software architects, ameliorate English learning, and further the protection of intellectual property.