On September 19th, 2002, the Opening Ceremony of Northeastern University Neusoft Institute of Information Technology (Nanhai) [“Neusoft IIT (Nanhai)”] was held ceremoniously in Nanhai City, Guangdong. 1200 students from all over the country entered Neusoft IIT’s educational hall that day. It’s Neusoft’s second specialized institute training high-class multi-disciplinary talents majoring in computer. after the establishment of Neuosft IIT (Dalian) in July, 2001. The establishment and opening of Neusoft IIT (Nanhai) signaled that Neusoft’s IT educational resources and the Pearl River Delta’s economic resources had united. And this will continuously send new and excellent IT talents to the economic circle of “the Pearl River delta” and add new economic power for this region in the future.

    The economically advanced Pearl River Delta is one of the areas where mid-sized & small companies are most active in China. It’s advantage of precious economic resources impelled Neusoft to make this strategic decision. Nanhai City, which sits in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta, borders on Guangzhou(near to Hongkong and Macao) and is top among the cities of the same degree in comprehensive strength. In the year of 2001, the city’s GDP was RMB 39 billion, and the expected GDP and total financial income for 2005 is RMB 54.5 billion and RMB 10.8 billion respectively. Meanwhile, Nanhai City is China’s model city for the information construction project. The Municipal Government of Nanhai lends much enthusiasm and support for the development of the information industry and IT education. We believe that Neusoft IIT will become another bright point of Neusoft’s IT education with the assist of those local advantages in the near future.

    “Neusoft IIT ( Nanhai ) sits in the Nanhai Software Technology Park of Nanhai City, Guangdong. The whole institute is embraced by rivers and mountains, which cover more than 100 thousand square kilometers. The institute occupies 240,000 square meters with the planned capital investment of RMB 30 million. The institute laid its foundation in June,2001, and has built teaching building of 18 thousand square meters. It plans to recruit students from nine provinces all over the country and gladly welcomed the first 1200 freshmen in 2002. It also expects to enlarge the institute’s scale to 6000 people in the year 2005. Neusoft IIT considers the education philosophy of “Education Creates the Values of Students” as its core and applies an absolutely new talent nurturing mode to train the “internationalized, pragmatic and individualized” IT talents. Neusoft IIT also allows students access to the most advanced and active IT atmosphere and teaching atmosphere by using top-ranking teachers, technology, and management as well as the advantaged geographic superiority of the Pearl River Delta hinterland.

    Dr. He Jicheng, president of Northeastern University expressed at the news conference that Northeastern University Neusoft IIT was Northeastern University’s most significant future-oriented act for educational innovation. He also said it was a totally new-system specialized IT institute and was an experimental field for Northeastern University to reform the education system, innovate the teaching content and gradually explore modern IT education. Neusoft IIT is committed to innovate its education philosophy and talent training pattern. Helping individual and organization to persistently obtain information technology and promote their ability of controlling the future by means of multi-level degree-conferring education, lifelong training and digitalized education is Northeastern University’s another important form to realize the education innovation.

    For more than the past more than ten years, Northeastern University, one of the thirty-three leading universities with graduate schools affiliated directly with the Ministry of Education in China, cultivated the most excellent software and solution company in China----Neusoft Group by continuously exploring the development mode of “production, education, research” integration. In response, Neusoft Group which was the brainchild of Northeastern University invested their educational resources and supported Northeastern University to carry out the new economic era’s education reformation and innovation taking advantage of its resources in the IT industry. This kind of development mode of “education”—“industry”—“education” created by both Northeastern University and Neusoft Group will pioneer a new road for our country’s reformation and innovation of higher education.

    Dr. Liu Jiren, President of Neusoft Group said at the news conference that the key point in developing the software industry is talent staff, and the severe international competition for IT talents would bring a tremendous impact to China’s IT talent market and economic development. How to train highly qualified practical talents rapidly was the austere challenge faced by China’s developing software industry. As a software company initiated from the university, we profoundly know what kinds of talents the companies need and what kinds of talents the country needs in the information era with economic globalization. The ten-year development process made Neusoft feel deeply that education not only related to the future fate of the software industry, but was also an important part of Neusoft’s entire industrial value chain. Only investing to establish Neusoft IIT and create a benign ecological system of industry and education can make Neuosoft’s solution to create value for clients better.

    According to Dr. Wen Tao, Vice President of Neusoft Group and President of Neusoft IIT (Dalian)， Neusoft IIT integrated the educational resources of Northeastern University. Neusoft Group, as well as all the clients and cooperative partners, shared with Neusoft IIT their technology, products and human resources. It has at present, built a strategic cooperative relationship with international IT companies such as SUN、IBM、INTEC 、ORACLE、TOSHIBA、and SmartForce. In order to strengthen students’ global competition, our institute planned to promote the students’ value roundly from specialized theory, practical ability, communication skills, and working experience as well as a complete view of science and technology while ensuring students stable theoretical basis. The institute aims at becoming an internationalized education service provider（ESP）integrating degree-conferring education, lifelong education service and e-Learning service.

    According to Dr. Yang Li, President of Neusoft IIT (Nanhai), Nanhai institute is a important part of Neusoft’s IT education which shares the same brand of “Neusoft Institute of Information Technology” with Dalian Institute and Chengdu Institute on the aspects of it’s education philosophy, talent training pattern, management system. Neusoft IIT(Nanhai) is the pivot for Neusoft’s IT education which interacts and develops with Dalian’s and Chengdu’s institute on the aspects of qualified teachers, teaching and management. The three institutes share all the educational resources of Neusoft IIT. The goal of Neusoft IIT (Nanhai) is to become the most excellent specialized IT institute in “the Pearl River Delta” area so as to create many multi-disciplinary IT talents for the development of South China’s IT industry.

    The Leaders of Guangdong Province say that the twenty-first century is a digital, network and the information century. Information technology and information industry are a nation’s or an area’s competition focus. The Information industry has become our country’s leading, supportive and strategic industry facing life and development in the twenty-first century. About 50% of the most active companies are distributed in the Pearl River Delta. Guangdong Province needs at least 50 thousand IT talents per year, while colleges in Guangdong can provide only around 6000 graduates. After being granted as the State Science and Technology Commission’s network construction experimental city and the state’s information network service system construction experimental city, Nanhai City was ranked as the state’s information experimental city two years ago. As the nation’s pioneer in information construction, Nanhai attained great achievement in the informationalization of traditional industry, information industry, society and administration. In the construction of informationalization, Nanhai City felt deeply that the lack of IT talents is, at present, a most urgent problem. Today, Northeastern University and Neusoft Group established Neusoft IIT in Nanhai. This act will send many highly qualified IT talents to the economic circle of “the Pearl River Delta” and promote the development of the information industry in the Pearl River Delta. He expressed that the CPC Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government as well as local municipal governments will definitely provide good environment and conditions for the institute’s development.

    Some officials of Fuoshan City and Nanhai City attended the opening ceremony and gave speeches. Mr. Tetsuo Nakao, the proprieter of INTEC Co.,ltd, an excellent Japanese IT company as well as on of Neusoft’s strategic cooperative partner attended the ceremony and announced a donation of e-Learning teaching courseware worth US$ 2 million to Neusoft IIT in order to support the development of Neusoft’s education.