Guizhou firm to handle Apple iCloud services in Chinese mainland

Apple Inc's iCloud services on the Chinese mainland will be operated by a local company from Feb 28, marking the latest push by the United States tech giant to meet local consumers' growing demand for better cloud services.

Apple said on Wednesday that Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co Ltd, an enterprise owned by the Guizhou provincial government, will operate its iCloud service on the Chinese mainland.

The move is the latest step in the deal announced by Apple in July 2017, when it said it would invest $1 billion on new data centers in Guizhou province.