India ready to help build smart cities in China

[aimarraul]

India ready to help build smart cities in China
Saibal DasguptaSaibal Dasgupta, TNN | Sep 5, 2011, 06.56PM IST

BEIJING: Indian IT companies wish to be a partner in China's drive to build global cities, S Jaishankar, India's ambassador, told Chinese entrepreneurs at a software conference in Nanjing city on Tuesday.

India is increasingly importing Chinese equipment, he said. "The focus is now on China reciprocating this trend and focusing on leveraging Indian IT capabilities," the ambassador said at a India-China software cooperation seminar.

China is the "missing portfolio" for $76 billion Indian IT industry, which has managed to book contracts in 70 countries speaking 35 different languages, he said.

"An IT relationship will make Chinese companies more efficient and greatly enhance their connectivity with the Indian economy," he said at the 7th China (Nanjing) International Software product expo, which ran concurrently along with the India-China seminar.

 

[prototype]

I think the headline misrepresent the article.

AT first i thought India is helping China with some king of infra base technology like innovative new designs and structures,which was little difficult for me to swallow.

But then the article describes more about the IT sector and its priority.

 

[S10]

You posted the wrong source. This is the correct one:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...smart-cities-in-China/articleshow/9873398.cms

I don't know how Indian IT sector would compete against domestic Chinese companies. In terms of political connections, they don't have the relationship that Chinese companies already built with the government. In terms of software innovation, they don't have the local language expertise to compete with Chinese companies. If they meant hardware, that's even a bigger stretch with the amount of Chinese firms involved in this area.

Basically, I can't see Indian IT sector being able to carve its piece in the Chinese IT market pie.

 

[below_freezing]

Unfortunately we are far behind India in many aspects of technology. We can't help India make smart cities.

We can only hope to contribute to such low tech basic things like full electrification of India.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

The blind support, that people have made during they stay on their PC or Laptop on this site, will fail them to realise the importance of this thread sadly.

 

[Vibs]

Unfortunately we are far behind India in many aspects of technology. We can't help India make smart cities.

We can only hope to contribute to such low tech basic things like full electrification of India.

That's a little below the belt, but not entirely untrue either. Anyways, most of the power projects coming up in India are contracted to either Harbin Electric or Shanghai Electric/Turbines. So in a way China is contributing to the electrification of India.

India has been able to make a strong base in terms of IT. Every contract a global company gives out eventually is subcontracted to an Indian IT firm or an IT firm employing Indians. Would benefit both Indian IT companies and the Chinese organizations involved if a direct relationship is built up.

 

[jdme]

Unfortunately we are far behind India in many aspects of technology. We can't help India make smart cities.

We can only hope to contribute to such low tech basic things like full electrification of India.

Power generators sold by Chinese companies in India are found to be inferior to ones made by BHEL. Chinese are keeping all the good stuff for China

 

[JayAtl]

You posted the wrong source. This is the correct one:

India ready to help build smart cities in China - The Times of India

I don't know how Indian IT sector would compete against domestic Chinese companies. In terms of political connections, they don't have the relationship that Chinese companies already built with the government. In terms of software innovation, they don't have the local language expertise to compete with Chinese companies. If they meant hardware, that's even a bigger stretch with the amount of Chinese firms involved in this area.

Basically, I can't see Indian IT sector being able to carve its piece in the Chinese IT market pie.

Let me understand your premise. India which has deals w/ over 70 countries and in 35 languages and in countries where their bureaucracy is no different than in china-- somehow will find itself not capable of providing services to Chinese companies that are looking for talent-- that the " ENTIRE" world comes to india for-- because they will go " darn, wish they carried a red party card"...?

 

[IndoCarib]

Unfortunately we are far behind India in many aspects of technology. We can't help India make smart cities.

We can only hope to contribute to such low tech basic things like full electrification of India.

India Rethinks China Ties in Power Sector - WSJ.com

 

[jdme]

India Rethinks China Ties in Power Sector - WSJ.com

They should formulate a decade long plan. Allow private companies, ramp up production and increase the pool of trained workers...Knee Jerk reaction won't do.

 

[IndoCarib]

^^^^^^
The senior managers of a three-year-old thermal power plant in North India say that the Chinese equipment they installed has been giving them trouble due to low quality. They are not alone. Around the country, power plants have claimed that they bought cheaper Chinese boilers, turbines and generators in preference to Indian equipment only to see them malfunction too quickly.
On the surface, it looks like a demand for better quality. But look closer and it is clear that a quite different battle is brewing. It is one way the local industry is reacting to the Chinese invasion into the country's power equipment sector.

Bharat Heavy Goes Into China
http://www.forbes.com/2011/05/10/forbes-india-bhel-ready-to-battle-for-market-share.html

 

[jdme]

^^BHEL does make better equipments than companies supplying generators to India. It simply doesn't make enough. Also, we don't how good these companies are back in China.

 

[jdme]

Bharat Heavy Goes Into China[/B]
Bharat Heavy Goes Into China - Forbes.com

Typical PSU.

"Over the past five years, private players have been increasingly moving away from the state behemoth because of its low production capacity, delayed delivery performance and cost factors."

What makes them think they will survive in China.

 

[conworldus]

Sure, how many Indian IT people speak good Chinese? To work on China contracts, you should speak Chinese.

 

[JayAtl]

Sure, how many Indian IT people speak good Chinese? To work on China contracts, you should speak Chinese.

Bah! - how many speak french, german, russian etc( indian companies are engaged in all those and other countries)? guess what - English is the universal language and perhaps may surprise you but chinese speak it too...