The department of information technology has constituted a group to study the Chinese infotech market and suggest ways and means to explore that market for Indian companies.
"The group will work out alliances to our advantage with the local Chinese companies and MNCs present there," Union IT and Communications Minister Arun Shourie said in New Delhi.
"They (Chinese) have very large software business but it is in their domestic market. Our software is export oriented," Shourie, who recently visited China, said.
The only way the Indian companies can enter the Chinese market is by providing software solutions to the foreign companies -- like those from Japan and Korea, and the West -- who have manufacturing base in China, he said.
"We are in touch with them directly, but their Chinese subsidiaries or branches would want solutions specific to their Chinese operations," he said.
The Indian companies would now be aiming at associating themselves with Chinese software producers or having a large presence of Chinese personnel in their own branches in China by which they can enter that market, the minister said.
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