Guizhou shows benefits of big data

Province a pilot for information sharing between govt departments

GUIYANG - "Grow up, bamboo shoots! Wake up, spring is coming," recites a pupil at Yata Elementary School. The school is in a remote mountainous area of Southwest China's Guizhou province, an area of significant poverty, with telephones only becoming available in recent years.

But now, via a cloud computing education system, students at the school can read the same books and listen to the same teachers as pupils at Xingyi Elementary School, the best school in Qianxinan, which is 100 kilometers away.