What they say

We will not only transfer technologies, but make a significant investment into the joint venture. It will be one of the primary vehicles we use to bring tech here and create innovation as the Internet Plus and other initiatives take hold in China.

Derek Aberle, president of Qualcomm

China will play an increasingly important role in the big data era and we will speed up efforts to develop new products for the market.

Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Inc

The Big Data Expo has attracted the world's attention. Cloud Guizhou (a cloud computing project) will be another beautiful and international calling card for Guizhou.

Terry Guo Tai-ming, chairman of Foxconn

I've already inspected many caves (for building a data center) in Guizhou.

Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings

It is very timely for Guizhou province to stand up and say we want to be leaders and drive this innovation (of big data).

Mark Gibbs, president of SAP SE Greater China

Whenever you share information, one of the risks is you are not really understanding the information that you are sharing. So it will be very much about understanding the data dictionaries, the standards, and the rules that will emerge for sharing information.

Anthony Scriffignano, chief data scientist at Dun & Bradstreet

The momentum is here. The air smells big data too.

Guo Yike, director of the Data Science Institute of the Imperial College London

We had a preliminary consensus in 2012 that the ecology in Guizhou is fragile and vulnerable. Then what industry can we develop? The emerging big data industry might be a very good direction.

Wu Hequan, academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering

(China Daily 05/31/2016 page15)