Inner Mongolia working hard on cloud computing data base

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2015-12-17

The city of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, has announced that the main work on its big data base is completed, with telecom operators, internet giants and other companies in place after three years' of efforts.

Inner Mongolia now has the most competitive data base and cloud computing center in northern China, with the three telecom operating giants – China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - and other companies like Baidu and Alibaba operating there.

Work on the base started in 2012, and Hohhot has put 70 billion yuan ($11 billion) into the project, to build China's biggest, most comprehensive cloud computing data base, with about 4 million servers and business reaching Beijing, and Shanxi, Gansu, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, and Qinghai provinces, and the Xinjiang and Ningxia regions.

The data base is also expected to contribute to "smart city" construction in Hohhot in its commerce, quality supervision, taxation, health care, and public security in a 190-square-kilometer area.