Wen Jibao plans to visit Japan on a relation mending mission and this is also expected to give a further push to the already rising software outsourcing trade between the two countries. China has been handling more than sixty percent outsourcing business of Japan and since 2006 has become the biggest software outsourcing base for them. China has generated revenues worth $ 1.43 billion in 2006 and Japan was responsible for more than half of the revenues. Big Japanese names such as Mitsubishi, Hitachi, NEC and Sony are already utilizing the outsourcing services of China.
Japanese have preferred China over India for outsourcing since it is geographically closer and have a cultural background which matches to that of China. The visit of Chinese premier is being seen as a confidence building measure so that more Japanese are willing to establish business links with China and end the animosity which had prevailed over the past. It now looks that outsourcing will bring the two nations closer which up till now had not been getting along politically.
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