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Wanda Group’s RMB 1.5 Billion Poverty Alleviation Program Starts Operating in Danzhai
03.07.2017
Launch cermeony
Chairman Wang Jianlin gives a speech at the launch ceremony.
Danzhai, Guizhou Province, July 3rd – Dalian Wanda Group’s RMB 1.5 billion poverty alleviation program started operating in Danzhai, Guizhou Province, today, in the company’s biggest endeavor to lift a whole county out of poverty.
The project, following a model of “one enterprise responsible for an entire county’s poverty alleviation,” is comprised of an RMB 300 million college, an RMB 700 million tourism village, and an RMB 500 million fund, designed to meet the long, medium, and short term poverty-alleviation demand in this southwestern Chinese county famous for its rich Miao ethnical culture heritages and stunning landscape.
Chen Min’er, Party Secretary of Guizhou Province, Hu Zejun, Auditor General of the National Audit Office of the People’s Republic of China, Sun Zhigang, Governor of Guizhou Province, Ou Qingping, Deputy Director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, and Wang Jianlin, Chairman of Wanda Group, attended the opening ceremony.
The innovative poverty alleviation model, based on Wanda’s many years of successful experience in reducing poverty and consultations with experts, will help lift Danzhai’s income level through a market-orientated approach, leveraging Wanda’s strength in the tourism industry and Danzhai’s own rich tourism resources. Three years in the making, the project is aimed at leading Danzhai’s economic transformation, creating employment, and eradicating poverty from the roots.
The long-term part of the project is the Guizhou Wanda Vocational College. With RMB 300 million donated by Wanda, the College is designed to improve Danzhai’s quality of life through education, eliminating the possibility of poverty arising from the source. Covering an area of 300 mu (approx. 200,000 square meters) and occupying a total floor area of 50,000 square meters, the college will be able to accommodate 2,000 students. The College facilities have met national top-tier vocational college standards. It offers majors associated with Wanda’s business fields and positions, with 50% of the graduates to be hired based on merit and work at Wanda each year. The College is expected to enroll 700 Danzhai students each year. Calculating from the standard of 3 people per family, the school will help lift around 2,000 Danzhai residents out of poverty annually.
The medium-term part of the project is the RMB 700 million Danzhai Wanda Village, designed to lead the county’s tourism development and create many employment opportunities. The site covers an area of 400 mu (approx. 266,640 square meters) and a floor area of 50,000 square meters. Constructed and designed in the style of Miao architecture, the Village portrays Danzhai’s unique national non-material cultural heritages, handicrafts with ethnic Miao characteristics, Miao delicacies, and Miao medical treatment and medicines. Accompanied by the 4-star Wanda Jin Hotel, Inns and a Wanda Cinema, Danzhai Wanda Village will become an exclusive tourism project in China. The successful operation of the Village will generate 2,000 direct employment opportunities annually, attract 1 million tourists to Danzhai annually, and increase local tourism revenue by more than RMB 500 million. It will foster the growth of more than 20 industries including food, accommodation, handicrafts and agriculture. According to China Tourism Academy’s estimates, more than 10,000 indirect employment opportunities will be created.
The short-term part is the RMB 500 million Danzhai Special Poverty Alleviation Fund. Serving as a bottom line for the poorest, an RMB 50 million dividend fund will be granted each year to the county in the first five-year phase. The fund targets special poverty groups who are unable to benefit from the poverty-alleviating industries. The first installment of RMB 50 million has been distributed to 38,300 Danzhai residents struggling with poverty and low income. As a result, the average income of the poorest in Danzhai has already exceeded the national poverty line of that year.
After Wanda launched the “one enterprise responsible for an entire county’s poverty alleviation” in Daizhai, according to performance review of Guizhou poverty alleviation and development, Danzhai’s overall index rose from 23rd in 2014 to 2nd in 2016. The project also achieved the local people’s highest satisfaction level in the whole of Guizhou Province.
Wanda Group’s RMB 1.5 Billion Poverty Alleviation Program Starts Operating in Danzhai-Wanda Group
03.07.2017
Launch cermeony
Chairman Wang Jianlin gives a speech at the launch ceremony.
Danzhai, Guizhou Province, July 3rd – Dalian Wanda Group’s RMB 1.5 billion poverty alleviation program started operating in Danzhai, Guizhou Province, today, in the company’s biggest endeavor to lift a whole county out of poverty.
The project, following a model of “one enterprise responsible for an entire county’s poverty alleviation,” is comprised of an RMB 300 million college, an RMB 700 million tourism village, and an RMB 500 million fund, designed to meet the long, medium, and short term poverty-alleviation demand in this southwestern Chinese county famous for its rich Miao ethnical culture heritages and stunning landscape.
Chen Min’er, Party Secretary of Guizhou Province, Hu Zejun, Auditor General of the National Audit Office of the People’s Republic of China, Sun Zhigang, Governor of Guizhou Province, Ou Qingping, Deputy Director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, and Wang Jianlin, Chairman of Wanda Group, attended the opening ceremony.
The innovative poverty alleviation model, based on Wanda’s many years of successful experience in reducing poverty and consultations with experts, will help lift Danzhai’s income level through a market-orientated approach, leveraging Wanda’s strength in the tourism industry and Danzhai’s own rich tourism resources. Three years in the making, the project is aimed at leading Danzhai’s economic transformation, creating employment, and eradicating poverty from the roots.
The long-term part of the project is the Guizhou Wanda Vocational College. With RMB 300 million donated by Wanda, the College is designed to improve Danzhai’s quality of life through education, eliminating the possibility of poverty arising from the source. Covering an area of 300 mu (approx. 200,000 square meters) and occupying a total floor area of 50,000 square meters, the college will be able to accommodate 2,000 students. The College facilities have met national top-tier vocational college standards. It offers majors associated with Wanda’s business fields and positions, with 50% of the graduates to be hired based on merit and work at Wanda each year. The College is expected to enroll 700 Danzhai students each year. Calculating from the standard of 3 people per family, the school will help lift around 2,000 Danzhai residents out of poverty annually.
The medium-term part of the project is the RMB 700 million Danzhai Wanda Village, designed to lead the county’s tourism development and create many employment opportunities. The site covers an area of 400 mu (approx. 266,640 square meters) and a floor area of 50,000 square meters. Constructed and designed in the style of Miao architecture, the Village portrays Danzhai’s unique national non-material cultural heritages, handicrafts with ethnic Miao characteristics, Miao delicacies, and Miao medical treatment and medicines. Accompanied by the 4-star Wanda Jin Hotel, Inns and a Wanda Cinema, Danzhai Wanda Village will become an exclusive tourism project in China. The successful operation of the Village will generate 2,000 direct employment opportunities annually, attract 1 million tourists to Danzhai annually, and increase local tourism revenue by more than RMB 500 million. It will foster the growth of more than 20 industries including food, accommodation, handicrafts and agriculture. According to China Tourism Academy’s estimates, more than 10,000 indirect employment opportunities will be created.
The short-term part is the RMB 500 million Danzhai Special Poverty Alleviation Fund. Serving as a bottom line for the poorest, an RMB 50 million dividend fund will be granted each year to the county in the first five-year phase. The fund targets special poverty groups who are unable to benefit from the poverty-alleviating industries. The first installment of RMB 50 million has been distributed to 38,300 Danzhai residents struggling with poverty and low income. As a result, the average income of the poorest in Danzhai has already exceeded the national poverty line of that year.
After Wanda launched the “one enterprise responsible for an entire county’s poverty alleviation” in Daizhai, according to performance review of Guizhou poverty alleviation and development, Danzhai’s overall index rose from 23rd in 2014 to 2nd in 2016. The project also achieved the local people’s highest satisfaction level in the whole of Guizhou Province.
Wanda Group’s RMB 1.5 Billion Poverty Alleviation Program Starts Operating in Danzhai-Wanda Group
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A Remote Chinese Province Uses Its Climate To Grow A Big-Data Industry
Visitors look at a booth explaining the Chinese government's plans for the big-data industry at an expo in southwest China's Guizhou province.
Anthony Kuhn/NPR
To the rest of China, the remote, landlocked region known as Guizhou province has been a wild and rugged backwater, for all but the last 500 years of the country's history. Now, it's at the leading edge of China's technological ambitions.
Aboriginal tribes inhabited this part of Southwest China until members of the majority Han ethnic group began settling there around the 10th century B.C. It didn't become a province of a unified China until five centuries after that.
Today, Guizhou's economy ranks 25th out of 31 Chinese provinces. Jagged karst peaks make the landscape difficult to navigate and cultivate.
It is home to a disproportionate number of China's roughly 60 million "left-behind children," whose parents have sought work in the cities, leaving them in the care of relatives.
But the province is pursuing an ambitious strategy to surge to the forefront of China's high-tech sector. It has picked big data as the industry that will make the most of its natural advantages.
Guizhou's story illustrates how China simultaneously inhabits multiple developmental eras. While parts of Guizhou remain mired in the pre-industrial stage, others are edging into the space age.
It also illustrates how China is trying to upgrade its industries, from labor-intensive factories making goods for export, to cleaner and more capital-intensive high-tech and service companies.
For each of the past three years, Guizhou has put on a big international expo to highlight its new role as a big data hub. Dell, Qualcomm and other tech firms have booths here.
In just about a decade, the provincial capital of Guiyang has taken a cluster of suburban hill towns and converted them into a new urban district, bristling with skyscrapers that surround the convention center where the expo is held.
A new urban district and an annual big-data expo have arisen in recent years as the centerpiece of the high-tech industry in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province.
Anthony Kuhn/NPR
Guizhou has broken out of its isolation by building high-speed railways, bridges, tunnels and added international flights to link it to domestic and foreign cities. China's state-owned telecom firms have integrated it into the backbone of China's Internet infrastructure.
The central government has offered a raft of incentives to attract big-data firms, establishing experimental zones and pilot programs, and giving discounts on electricity from the province's plentiful supply of hydropower.
Con't --> A Remote Chinese Province Uses Its Climate To Grow A Big-Data Industry : All Tech Considered : NPR
- July 3, 20173:43 PM ET
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To the rest of China, the remote, landlocked region known as Guizhou province has been a wild and rugged backwater, for all but the last 500 years of the country's history. Now, it's at the leading edge of China's technological ambitions.
Aboriginal tribes inhabited this part of Southwest China until members of the majority Han ethnic group began settling there around the 10th century B.C. It didn't become a province of a unified China until five centuries after that.
Today, Guizhou's economy ranks 25th out of 31 Chinese provinces. Jagged karst peaks make the landscape difficult to navigate and cultivate.
It is home to a disproportionate number of China's roughly 60 million "left-behind children," whose parents have sought work in the cities, leaving them in the care of relatives.
But the province is pursuing an ambitious strategy to surge to the forefront of China's high-tech sector. It has picked big data as the industry that will make the most of its natural advantages.
Guizhou's story illustrates how China simultaneously inhabits multiple developmental eras. While parts of Guizhou remain mired in the pre-industrial stage, others are edging into the space age.
It also illustrates how China is trying to upgrade its industries, from labor-intensive factories making goods for export, to cleaner and more capital-intensive high-tech and service companies.
For each of the past three years, Guizhou has put on a big international expo to highlight its new role as a big data hub. Dell, Qualcomm and other tech firms have booths here.
In just about a decade, the provincial capital of Guiyang has taken a cluster of suburban hill towns and converted them into a new urban district, bristling with skyscrapers that surround the convention center where the expo is held.
Anthony Kuhn/NPR
Guizhou has broken out of its isolation by building high-speed railways, bridges, tunnels and added international flights to link it to domestic and foreign cities. China's state-owned telecom firms have integrated it into the backbone of China's Internet infrastructure.
The central government has offered a raft of incentives to attract big-data firms, establishing experimental zones and pilot programs, and giving discounts on electricity from the province's plentiful supply of hydropower.
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Apple to build data centers as it stakes claim in China
By Ma Si, Cheng Yu and Yang Jun | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-07-12 13:48
A customer is trying a new red iPhone 7 in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, March 25, 2017. [Photo/VCG]
Apple Inc will invest $1 billion in new data centers in Guizhou province in China, as the United States tech giant steps up efforts to meet local consumers' growing demand for cloud services.
The move is part of a deal Apple inked with Guizhou provincial government on Wednesday.
Under the partnership, these data centers will be operated by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd, an enterprise owned by the Guizhou provincial government.
Apple will register a business entity in Guiyang to help build the data centers and offer technology support, according to a joint statement.
Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry will also become the sole operating partner of Apple's iCloud service on the Chinese mainland.
The deal marks Apple's latest push to step up investment in China where it is facing mounting competition from rivals.
In March, Apple announced plans to build two research and development centers in Shanghai and Suzhou, Jiangsu province, as part of its broad efforts to tap into the country's talent pool in manufacturing, design and app development.
The company also established two centers in Beijing and Shenzhen last year, highlighting the importance of the Chinese market, the world's largest smartphone arena where Apple is losing ground to local players such as Huawei and Oppo.
The California-headquartered company has committed to investing 3.5 billion yuan ($507 million) in these centers, which will seek graduates from China's leading universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
By Ma Si, Cheng Yu and Yang Jun | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-07-12 13:48
Apple Inc will invest $1 billion in new data centers in Guizhou province in China, as the United States tech giant steps up efforts to meet local consumers' growing demand for cloud services.
The move is part of a deal Apple inked with Guizhou provincial government on Wednesday.
Under the partnership, these data centers will be operated by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd, an enterprise owned by the Guizhou provincial government.
Apple will register a business entity in Guiyang to help build the data centers and offer technology support, according to a joint statement.
Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry will also become the sole operating partner of Apple's iCloud service on the Chinese mainland.
The deal marks Apple's latest push to step up investment in China where it is facing mounting competition from rivals.
In March, Apple announced plans to build two research and development centers in Shanghai and Suzhou, Jiangsu province, as part of its broad efforts to tap into the country's talent pool in manufacturing, design and app development.
The company also established two centers in Beijing and Shenzhen last year, highlighting the importance of the Chinese market, the world's largest smartphone arena where Apple is losing ground to local players such as Huawei and Oppo.
The California-headquartered company has committed to investing 3.5 billion yuan ($507 million) in these centers, which will seek graduates from China's leading universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Pls not, give jobs to low-skill islamophobic middle Mericans.Apple to build data centers as it stakes claim in China
By Ma Si, Cheng Yu and Yang Jun | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-07-12 13:48
A customer is trying a new red iPhone 7 in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, March 25, 2017. [Photo/VCG]
Apple Inc will invest $1 billion in new data centers in Guizhou province in China, as the United States tech giant steps up efforts to meet local consumers' growing demand for cloud services.
The move is part of a deal Apple inked with Guizhou provincial government on Wednesday.
Under the partnership, these data centers will be operated by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd, an enterprise owned by the Guizhou provincial government.
Apple will register a business entity in Guiyang to help build the data centers and offer technology support, according to a joint statement.
Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry will also become the sole operating partner of Apple's iCloud service on the Chinese mainland.
The deal marks Apple's latest push to step up investment in China where it is facing mounting competition from rivals.
In March, Apple announced plans to build two research and development centers in Shanghai and Suzhou, Jiangsu province, as part of its broad efforts to tap into the country's talent pool in manufacturing, design and app development.
The company also established two centers in Beijing and Shenzhen last year, highlighting the importance of the Chinese market, the world's largest smartphone arena where Apple is losing ground to local players such as Huawei and Oppo.
The California-headquartered company has committed to investing 3.5 billion yuan ($507 million) in these centers, which will seek graduates from China's leading universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Sometime I just can't believe the development pace of China's poorest province.A Remote Chinese Province Uses Its Climate To Grow A Big-Data Industry
- July 3, 20173:43 PM ET
- Anthony Kuhn
Visitors look at a booth explaining the Chinese government's plans for the big-data industry at an expo in southwest China's Guizhou province.
Anthony Kuhn/NPR
To the rest of China, the remote, landlocked region known as Guizhou province has been a wild and rugged backwater, for all but the last 500 years of the country's history. Now, it's at the leading edge of China's technological ambitions.
Aboriginal tribes inhabited this part of Southwest China until members of the majority Han ethnic group began settling there around the 10th century B.C. It didn't become a province of a unified China until five centuries after that.
Today, Guizhou's economy ranks 25th out of 31 Chinese provinces. Jagged karst peaks make the landscape difficult to navigate and cultivate.
It is home to a disproportionate number of China's roughly 60 million "left-behind children," whose parents have sought work in the cities, leaving them in the care of relatives.
But the province is pursuing an ambitious strategy to surge to the forefront of China's high-tech sector. It has picked big data as the industry that will make the most of its natural advantages.
Guizhou's story illustrates how China simultaneously inhabits multiple developmental eras. While parts of Guizhou remain mired in the pre-industrial stage, others are edging into the space age.
It also illustrates how China is trying to upgrade its industries, from labor-intensive factories making goods for export, to cleaner and more capital-intensive high-tech and service companies.
For each of the past three years, Guizhou has put on a big international expo to highlight its new role as a big data hub. Dell, Qualcomm and other tech firms have booths here.
In just about a decade, the provincial capital of Guiyang has taken a cluster of suburban hill towns and converted them into a new urban district, bristling with skyscrapers that surround the convention center where the expo is held.
A new urban district and an annual big-data expo have arisen in recent years as the centerpiece of the high-tech industry in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province.
Anthony Kuhn/NPR
Guizhou has broken out of its isolation by building high-speed railways, bridges, tunnels and added international flights to link it to domestic and foreign cities. China's state-owned telecom firms have integrated it into the backbone of China's Internet infrastructure.
The central government has offered a raft of incentives to attract big-data firms, establishing experimental zones and pilot programs, and giving discounts on electricity from the province's plentiful supply of hydropower.
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Even Apple don't want to invest in islamophobic, lowly educated white Americans
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Inside China's 'big data valley': the rapid hi-tech transformation of Guiyang
As capital of a poor western province, Guiyang’s sudden development into China’s ‘Big Data Valley’ has brought astonishing change, with Foxconn and Tencent already drawn to the city. Could the city one day rival Shanghai?
Guiyang, nestled among luscious green mountain peaks, has typically been known more for poverty than innovation. As a child, Li was so poor she went with her grandmother from village to village, begging for food. But this rapidly developing city has a plan to reinvent itself as a technology hub, attracting thousands of tech-savvy entrepreneurs to a week-long Expo, drawing big names to open data centres and embracing the self-proclaimed nickname “China’s Big Data Valley”.
While China’s growth has generally been powered by top tier eastern cities, Guizhou posted the third-fastest economic growth among China’s 31 provinces last year, and Guiyang was ranked as best performing city in 2016 by the Milken Institute. “If you have missed the investment opportunity in Guangdong or Zhejiang 30 years ago, by no means should you miss that of Guizhou today,” China’s tech poster child Jack Ma proclaimed.
---> Inside China's 'big data valley': the rapid hi-tech transformation of Guiyang | Cities | The Guardian
As capital of a poor western province, Guiyang’s sudden development into China’s ‘Big Data Valley’ has brought astonishing change, with Foxconn and Tencent already drawn to the city. Could the city one day rival Shanghai?
- Helen Roxburgh in Guiyang
- Thursday 13 July 2017 07.15 BST
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Guiyang, nestled among luscious green mountain peaks, has typically been known more for poverty than innovation. As a child, Li was so poor she went with her grandmother from village to village, begging for food. But this rapidly developing city has a plan to reinvent itself as a technology hub, attracting thousands of tech-savvy entrepreneurs to a week-long Expo, drawing big names to open data centres and embracing the self-proclaimed nickname “China’s Big Data Valley”.
While China’s growth has generally been powered by top tier eastern cities, Guizhou posted the third-fastest economic growth among China’s 31 provinces last year, and Guiyang was ranked as best performing city in 2016 by the Milken Institute. “If you have missed the investment opportunity in Guangdong or Zhejiang 30 years ago, by no means should you miss that of Guizhou today,” China’s tech poster child Jack Ma proclaimed.
---> Inside China's 'big data valley': the rapid hi-tech transformation of Guiyang | Cities | The Guardian
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Anybody asking me in Taiwan to which place I would suggest them they should go visit, I say Guizhou.
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Guizhou has heavenly natural beauty, but don't forget she also has big cities!Anybody asking me in Taiwan to which place I would suggest them they should go visit, I say Guizhou.
New drone video of Guiyang City at night.
Guiyang's Ring Rapid Road
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Chinese province pitches big data in Silicon Valley
Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-12 11:49:02|Editor: Yamei
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Making public their ambitions to build a Data Valley, officials from Guizhou, a province in southwestern China, engaged their counterparts and technology industry professionals in San Jose, arguably the capital of Silicon Valley.
At the ballroom of a hotel on Friday, the Chinese officials led by Qin Rupei, Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou, took turns to brief their audience of more 200 people on their achievements over the past two years, when the province launched a big data pilot zone with the blessing of China's central government.
They also listened to a parade of local officials who were happy that the event took place in Northern California, especially in Silicon Valley, where big data industry is more relevant than ever, and to representatives from some American businesses, about their expectation of the future application of big data as their roadway into the Chinese market.
Ho Wai Wong-Lam, Vice President of NXP Semiconductor in charge of strategy, was among the audience. Noting that she had been doing business in China for many years but had never been to Guizhou, Wong-Lam said she saw some areas where her company has expertise to offer and might travel to the Chinese province real soon.
A senior administrator from Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou, said there have been ongoing cooperation projects between the city and research institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the University of California, Berkeley, where he would visit the next day, in the area of big data research and applications.
It was the second visit for Guizhou officials to Silicon Valley. Last September officials from Guizhou presented the province as China's future big data industry hub.
Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-12 11:49:02|Editor: Yamei
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Making public their ambitions to build a Data Valley, officials from Guizhou, a province in southwestern China, engaged their counterparts and technology industry professionals in San Jose, arguably the capital of Silicon Valley.
At the ballroom of a hotel on Friday, the Chinese officials led by Qin Rupei, Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou, took turns to brief their audience of more 200 people on their achievements over the past two years, when the province launched a big data pilot zone with the blessing of China's central government.
They also listened to a parade of local officials who were happy that the event took place in Northern California, especially in Silicon Valley, where big data industry is more relevant than ever, and to representatives from some American businesses, about their expectation of the future application of big data as their roadway into the Chinese market.
Ho Wai Wong-Lam, Vice President of NXP Semiconductor in charge of strategy, was among the audience. Noting that she had been doing business in China for many years but had never been to Guizhou, Wong-Lam said she saw some areas where her company has expertise to offer and might travel to the Chinese province real soon.
A senior administrator from Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou, said there have been ongoing cooperation projects between the city and research institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the University of California, Berkeley, where he would visit the next day, in the area of big data research and applications.
It was the second visit for Guizhou officials to Silicon Valley. Last September officials from Guizhou presented the province as China's future big data industry hub.
