Beijing, May 23 (Reporter Wang Junling) A few days ago, the head of the Service and Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the development of my country's service outsourcing from January to April this year.

The latest data shows that from January to April, the value of service outsourcing contracts undertaken by Chinese enterprises was 542.4 billion yuan (the same currency below), and the executed value was 335.9 billion yuan, an increase of 44.9% and 35.6% respectively over the same period of the previous year, and an increase of 36.2% over the same period in 2019. And 50.0%.

　　The person in charge said that the current service outsourcing presents the following characteristics:

　　From a structural point of view, from January to April, the implementation amount of offshore information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) undertaken by Chinese companies was 91.3 billion yuan, 36.4 billion yuan and 66.6 billion yuan, respectively. Year-on-year increases were 46.4%, 22.2% and 16.8% respectively.

　　From a geographical perspective, from January to April, 31 service outsourcing demonstration cities across the country undertook a total of 263.3 billion yuan in offshore service outsourcing contracts, and the executed value was 168.7 billion yuan, an increase of 33.4% and 31.6% respectively, accounting for 84.4% and 84.4% of the national total. 86.8%.

　　From the market perspective, from January to April, the offshore outsourcing services undertaken by Chinese companies from the United States, Hong Kong, China and the EU amounted to 43.3 billion yuan, 38.7 billion yuan, and 24.6 billion yuan respectively, accounting for 54.9% of China’s offshore service outsourcing total. Year-on-year growth of 26.0%, 37.5% and 23.8%.

my country has undertaken 61.6 billion yuan of offshore outsourcing contracts from the “Belt and Road” countries, and the executed value is 34.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 97.8% and 35.6% respectively.

　　From the perspective of the nature of the enterprise, from January to April, the value of offshore service outsourcing contracts undertaken by private enterprises was 67.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 60.0%, and the executed value was 43.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38.9%.

The contract value of offshore service outsourcing undertaken by foreign-invested enterprises was 165.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.2%, accounting for 53.2% of the country's total.

　　In terms of employment, as of April 2021, my country's service outsourcing has absorbed 13.19 million employees, of which 8.37 million have a university degree or above, accounting for 63.5%.

From January to April 2021, 290,000 new employees were employed in service outsourcing, a year-on-year increase of 17.3%, of which 180,000 persons had a university degree or above, accounting for 63.2%.

　　Li Jun, director of the Institute of International Trade in Services of the Ministry of Commerce, said that service outsourcing is the highlight of China's current cooperation in foreign economic and trade fields. ITO, represented by cloud computing and e-commerce services, is growing at a significant rate, thanks to the rapid development of information technology services under the epidemic, and it is also a future development trend. Li Jun believes that service outsourcing has maintained a steady growth trend and has made important contributions to stabilizing foreign trade.