JINAN - American IT giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) signed an agreement with East China's Jining city on Tuesday to build international software training centers with an investment of $2 billion.

Under the deal, a software talent training center, software testing outsourcing service facility and an IT resource service base will be built.

The project will be in the Jining National High-tech Industrial Development Zone in Jining city, Shandong province.

The talent training center will train up to 10,000 IT professionals each year.

The centers will equip students with skills and training on HP software that companies need to make the most of their IT investments, said the company.