On February 27, Inspur Group, the famous leading enterprise in IT industry in Shandong Province, held the signing ceremony of "Agreement on Strategic Cooperation" in Qingdao, with "Hitachi Co., Ltd.", a world-famous manufacturing group. Mr. Xia Geng, Mayor of Qingdao, interviewed with Mr. Lin Yabo, director of Hitachi Group and CEO of Hitachi Information Communication Group, and Mr. Sun Pishu, president of Inspur Group and attended the signing ceremony.

Being one of the world's top 500 enterprises, Hitachi ranks the first in fields of dynamic and industrial systems, information and communication systems, electronic equipment, logistics and services, digital media and home appliances products, high-performance materials and components and financial services. Inspur is one of the largest enterprises in IT industry, of which server, software and communication are its major development direction.

The "Agreement on Strategic Cooperation" signed by Lang Group and Hitachi mainly relates to Inspur' software exporting to Japan and the complete cooperation in the development of IT solutions taking manufacturing as the core and services.
Since the demand of enterprises for manufacturing informatization is growing along with the entrance of Japanese manufacturing enterprises into China and the strengthening of domestic manufacturing enterprises, the market of integrated IT solutions in light of manufacturing industry shall continuously expanded. The cooperative relationship established between Inspur, which is rich in industry experiences, channel resources and product experiences, and Hitachi, which is powerful in manufacturing industry, conforms to the provincial even the national trends of software application.