Malaysia-China Institutions Jointly Organize a Symposium to Promote Malaysia to Connect with Guizhou's Big Data Development

　　China News Service, Kuala Lumpur, December 13 (Reporter Chen Yue) The reporter learned from the Malaysia-China Friendship Association on the 12th that the Malaysia-China Friendship Association and the Guizhou People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries will jointly organize a symposium to promote the Malaysian society to become more familiar with the information provided by big data Opportunities, understand the current situation of big data development in China, especially Guizhou, and connect with the era of big data.

　　An online symposium with the theme of "New Era of Data, Creating the Future Together" will be held on the 18th of this month.

Chen Jinggang, secretary general of the Malaysia-China Friendship Association, said that Guizhou is China's first comprehensive national big data pilot zone, and it has been developing rapidly since its inception.

Data show that 8 of the world's top 10 Internet companies are developing in China, and 7 of them have settled their data centers in Guizhou.

From 2013 to 2017, the average annual growth rate of the number of big data companies in Guizhou reached 71%.

The number of big data companies in Guizhou increased from less than 1,000 in 2013 to 8,548 in 2017.

According to the latest statistics, the total number of big data companies in Guizhou has reached 9,551.

All these show the vigorous development of big data in China and Guizhou.

　　The China-Malaysia Friendship Association will invite experts and scholars from the Guizhou Big Data Center and business people to have dialogues and exchanges with university students, young leaders, and industry representatives from the two countries and seek cooperation.

The Malaysia-China Friendship Association stated that under the influence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the world today, information technology has become the new normal of human life. It is hoped that the Malaysian industry and the younger generation can seize development opportunities in the crisis and find opportunities in the development of big data.

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