Guizhou pitches big data to India

Guizhou province held a promotion event for big data in Bangalore, India on July 10.

Bangalore is renowned as "Asia's Silicon Valley" while Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou, is known as "China's Data Valley". The two cities are seeking to further cooperation in the development of big data.

The Office of the Guizhou Cyberspace Administration and India's Big data Training Institute of the National Institution of Information Technology (NIIT) signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop big data education in Guizhou province.

The partnership can be traced back to 2015 when the Guizhou provincial government and the Confederation of Indian Industry signed a memorandum of understanding pledging to cooperate in the Guizhou big data and software industries, establish a China-India IT hub, and train 10,000 professional IT engineers in Guizhou.

The Guiyang municipal government signed an agreement with the Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) on Feb 8. The agreement called for establishing an IT industrial cluster to attract more companies and share information.

During the Guiyang Big Data Expo in May, NASSCOM and the Association of Guiyang Big Data facilitated the third annual forum on "China-Indian IT&DT Industry Cooperation and Development." During the forum, plans were made to build the China-India IT Hub and NIIT big data training institution in Guian New Area.