Big data pilot zone to open in Guizhou

Officials behind China's first big data pilot zone, being planned in Guizhou province expect it to attract huge number of talent from home and abroad for the cutting-edge industry.

The national big data comprehensive pilot zone will be an experiment in big data sharing, use, innovation and security.

"Guizhou promises to offer all-round services to big data projects and create convenient surroundings to key enterprises that are likely to invest here," Chen Min'er, the Party chief of Guizhou, said at the zone's inauguration ceremony, held in Beijing on Wednesday.