Stitching of technology to ensure a seamless modern Silk Road

Chinese internet-based companies are pitching in to help advance the Belt and Road Initiative by building a "digital Silk Road" between China and Germany and facilitating mutual business exchanges and the realization of Industry 4.0 strategy.

Since Ali Cloud, the cloud computing subsidiary of the Chinese online commerce giant Alibaba Group, located its first European data center in Frankfurt, more Chinese and European companies have voiced interest in using its service, said Wang Yeming, general manager of Alibaba Cloud Europe.

The Ali Cloud new data center, which opened in November, provides data storage and processing services, enterprise-level middleware and cloud security services to customers in China, Europe and elsewhere.