China has a plan to steal all of India's outsourcing business. The city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province, is planning to build a "little India" in year s to come in order to become a major service outsourcing center.

City leaders had been a bit worried after a serious blue-green algae outbreak in Taihu Lake threatened tourism and it decided it was probably a good idea to get out of manufacturing. Wuxi decided to replace manufacturing with the service outsourcing industry, which has far less pollution and consumes much less energy.

It wants to attract 30 to 40 billion dollars in service outsourcing business and help create jobs for one million people by 2020, equivalent to that of India as a whole in 2007. It is a bit optimistic three years ago only 2,000 students in the city were studying software and information technology fields.

Wuxi is building six million sq m for software service outsourcing within three years, and encouraged enterprises to cultivate and import skilled workers. The city signed 1.14 billion dollars in contracts from January to July, up 110 percent year-on-year.