HP has jointly announced with the Suzhou government that the two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a software outsourcing center in the city.

The new HP software outsourcing center will be committed to provide the company's Chinese and foreign clients in Suzhou with consulting, design, development, testing, and management services. Suzhou is about an hour away from Shanghai.

HP and the municipal government of Suzhou plan to first implement full cooperation in the construction of a data center IT project of the International Technology Park in the Suzhou Industrial Park and an information management and service platform of the file center. At the same time, the two parties have agreed on the building of a public logistics platform and a public information technology service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises.

In addition, HP promises to coordinate with Suzhou's information development planning and provide real-time and accurate information in city planning and management to the decision-makers.