The Yunnan provincial government and Huawei Technologies Company recently signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement in Kunming, capital city of the province.

Under the agreement, the two sides will build an international communications hub and regional information centre oriented towards South Asia and Southeast Asia. They will carry out extensive and in-depth cooperation in promoting the development of Yunnan's cloud computing industry as well as in areas such as the establishment of an industry alliance, the construction of a national supercomputing (Yunnan) centre, the creation of an ecosystem for intelligent manufacturing, the cultivation of cloud computing talent, industrial planning and market regulation.

It is understood that Yunnan is striving to push forward with its "Yun Shang Yun" action plan in an effort to develop its big data industry, prompting many large domestic information technology companies to establish their presence in Yunnan. Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Huawei, Xu Zhijun said Huawei was very optimistic about the development of Yunnan. His company looked forward to contributing to building a Kunming-based information centre oriented towards South Asia and Southeast Asia.