Why Outsource to China?

China is fast emerging as one of the world's leading suppliers of offshore IT outsourcing services. While India is the uncontested leader of offshore outsourcing globally today, China is quickly closing the gap and is the best alternative for large scale, high quality development services. "China is the hotspot right now, obviously for its enormous market opportunity.” says Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio. "If you 're a technology company and you 're not thinking about China, then you 're already behind.” This paper will look at the market forces driving buyers to look at China, the advantages China outsourcing offers as well as the challenges China faces supplying outsourcing services to the Western world.