Pingtan to set up offshore database
( chinadaily.com.cn )
Updated: 2013-01-23
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The Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone plans to set up a national offshore database to promote Pingtan's service outsourcing industry. The pilot zone aims to develop into a model in cross-Straits service outsourcing cooperation, Chinanews Fuzhou bureau reported on Jan 22.
The offshore database center will include a cloud computing and data processing center and a cloud industrial park. The center will cover an area of 2 square kilometers and be constructed in three phases from 2013 to 2015.
Pingtan will invite telecom operators and software and hardware suppliers in Taiwan and the Chinese mainland to secure the project's information infrastructure and equipment. The island county will also provide the center with corporate and professional support.
In addition, a submarine cable between Taiwan and Fuzhou, co-built by telecom operators on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, will facilitate the center's construction.
Pingtan aims to become a national data service outsourcing pilot zone and a cooperation base for cross-Straits cloud computing within 5 to 10 years, according to an official from the pilot zone's administrative committee.
Earlier in 2012, China Telecom on the Chinese mainland and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom agreed to establish a cloud data processing center with 200,000 sets of 4U servers in Pingtan. The program is expected to attract investment of 30 billion yuan ($4.82 billion) and create total revenues of 14 billion yuan ($2.25 billion) in software and information service industries. The cooperation is estimated to provide 11,700 job opportunities for the island county.
Fujian authorities have launched a policy package for financing and taxation cases, market expansion, professional training, financing assurance, and cross-Straits cooperation to make Pingtan a service outsourcing model in the nation.
Edited by Chen Zhilin and Michael Thai