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Big data flourishing in Guiyang

By Ou Xinfa and Li Yang| chinadaily.com.cn|Updated: June 15, 2015

Han Ningning, a 90s girl from the city of Guiyang, Guizhou province is working in the outsourcing service business and is very clear about why she took a job in a call center, because, "As everyone knows, big data in Guiyang is big" and "it's a land of opportunity”.

Why is that? As Han says, "it's clear, because Guiyang has plans over the next five years to build a call center with 200,000 seats and 500,000 jobs and is aggressive in its ambitious drive to make itself synonymous with global outsourcing services."

Already, by the end of 2014, it had 22,000 seats, according to Xiang Yang, the standing vice-head of Guiyang's outsourcing services and call center development group, who says that the call center handles information inquiries, consulting and feedback globally.

Guizhou is still one of China's poorest provinces and Guiyang is sorely underdeveloped for a capital city, but it does have its own advantages for this new industry, where the costs are mainly in equipment and electric power, which Guiyang has an abundance of, with its hydropower and comfortable temperature.

Guizhou was the first province in China to come up with a big data industrial development plan, and, in the space of a year, saw some amazing breakthroughs in development, with a big data exchange, free WIFI and big data laboratory and construction work on its data valley is going according to plan, with its only problem being a lack of talent, even with favorable policies and for talented people.

But, as Guizhou's governor, Chen Min'er, said, "The big data industry may not be a real bread winner for the people of Guiyang, but it's the most promising field."