Photo: Ma Xiuhong, chairwoman of China Council for International Investment Promotion (CCIIP) addresses the fifth Zhengzhou-China Service Outsourcing Innovation & Development Conference in central China's Henan Province, on Dec. 13.

BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Belt and Road (B&R) countries have become a new growth pole for China's service outsourcing sector, said Ma Xiuhong, chairwoman of China Council for International Investment Promotion (CCIIP) at the fifth Zhengzhou-China Service Outsourcing Innovation & Development Conference recently held in central China's Henan Province.

China's service outsourcing business has expanded into 200 countries in the world, of which there were 130 countries each with over 100 million yuan of the service outsourcing execution value by the end of 2017, said Ma.

Ma added that in recent years, growth of the service outsourcing business in the countries along the Belt and Road route has been higher than China's overall offshore service outsourcing growth, showing the good prospects of the service outsourcing in these countries. (Edited by Jiang Feifan)