With China's WTO accession and deepening of economic globalization, China has become a global manufacturing center. The manufacturing industry is the most important backbone industry in national economy with its industrial output accounting for over 50% of national GDP.
On one hand globalization results in dispersion of production process while on the other hand its supply chain is much longer and more complicated. The severe situation drives manufacturing enterprises into creating competitiveness through expanding IT applications with a focus on improving operation efficiency and reducing costs via enhancing informationization and guaranteeing effective operation of science and technology, production and marketing business systems via a more stable information infrastructure platform.
Manufacturing enterprises have built the network based on MPLS covering branches and subsidiaries through increasing IT investment so as to promote more convenient and effective coordination with national and global customers and partners in terms of core processes such as product designing and marketing.
Manufacturing enterprises build unified communications platforms based on IP protocol, optimize customer resources via CRM, promote smooth and convenient internal exchange of information and maximize customer value.
Besides input in infrastructures, many transnational companies have formed their own operational models with Chinese characteristics: establishing complete disaster recovery data center in China; outsourcing IT work to Chinese service providers for in-depth cooperation to effectively reduce operational costs.