Guizhou emerges as China's big data center

The province mapped out a plan in February to boost the big data industry to serve governments, the public and business. Under the plan, e-governance systems, intelligent transportation, logistics, tourism, industrial cloud computing, e-commerce and food security will be upgraded through big data technologies to improve the efficiency of government departments and improve people's lives.

However, the province faces a lack of talent to supply the industry's needs.

To remedy the situation, Guizhou launched a talent recruitment project to attract college graduates to set up big data companies in Guiyang by offering them preferential policies.

Leading Chinese universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University have signed agreements with Guizhou, promising to provide information technology talent to Guiyang, the provincial capital.

A total of 42 higher education research institutes have so far invested in Guiyang to enhance local innovation capability. Their aggregate investment totaled 17.4 billion yuan ($2.79 billion).

Under the provincial government's blueprint, a domestic first-class data resource center is expected to be established in 2017, which could make related industries worth 300 billion yuan ($48.06).

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