Recently, three departments, including the Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM"), have jointly issued the Catalogue of Guidance for Key Development Fields of the Service Outsourcing Industry (2018 Edition) (the "Catalogue").
This Catalogue covers 23 key development fields, among which eight falls into the category of information technology outsourcing (ITO), six into the category of business process outsourcing (BPO) and nine into the category of knowledge process outsourcing (KPO). For each field, the Catalogue sets forth its definition and scope, major business types and primary application fields. The "network and information security service", for example, is further classified into ten types of key business, such as "advisory services for network and information security", and is mainly applied in the financial sector, the production or generation and supply of power, heat, gas and water, the public administration, social security and social organization, the information transmission, software and information technology service sector, the manufacturing industry, and other industries of national economic activities.