Chinese president Xi calls for cooperation in big data

Xi believes dev

China will ramp up resources to integrate cutting-edge information technologies into the real economy, as the nation is expected to become the world's largest data owner by 2020.

President Xi Jinping said China attaches great importance to the big data industry, and the rapid dev­el­op­ment of new-generation in­formation technologies had a significant and far-reaching impact on social and economic development, state governance and people's lives.