Wipro plans third delivery centre in China

Global IT giant Wipro Technologies will open a third delivery centre in China to cater to the growing needs of its multinational clients.

"We have aggressive plans for China," Hiroshi N Alley, chief executive Japan & China Operations and president, Wipro Japan, told PTI here.

Alley, who has just joined Wipro in Tokyo to head China and Japan operations of the company, said Wipro already has operations in China's Shanghai and Beijing. "We are expanding our global footprints. We now have delivery centre in Shanghai and Beijing, and once we scale up to about 400-500 people, we are evaluating the third centre and are in the process of finalising it ," he said.

The Wipro delivery centre has 250 employees in Shanghai and 50 in Beijing.

Wipro, a late entrant to China when compared with other three top Indian IT giants TCS, Infosys and Satyam, is currently looking at eastern Chinese cities like Nanjing and Chengdu in southwest China as major Chinese cities are vying with each other to offer the best business terms to Indian software companies.

"We want to be close to our clients and many of them have major operations in China," Alley said, emphasising that Wipro wanted to serve the multinational clients from both India as well as China. "This does not mean that we are taking away jobs from India to China," he said.