Alibaba Cloud's ICP filing centre to be located in China's Guiyang city

Guiyang city, where India is establishing its second IT corridor in China, will become the technical support centre and Internet Content Provider (ICP) filing centre for the cloud service of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

Alibaba Cloud will also provide cloud storage service for the research data of China's five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope in Guizhou province, of which Guiyang is the provincial capital, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.

It is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. All websites hosted on the Chinese mainland must be ICP filed with the ministry of industry and information technology.

A website cannot direct to any server located on the Chinese mainland for public visits until the developer get an ICP filing number.

Yesterday, India launched its second IT corridor in China in collaboration with the local government of Guiyang to access the Chinese software market.

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) along with Guiyang's municipal government established one more Digital Collaborative Opportunities Plaza (SIDCOP) platform in China, in an effort to provide market access to Indian IT firms in the huge Chinese market.

Indian Ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale was among those who took part in the meeting at Guiyang to launch the project.

India recently established its first IT corridor in China in Dalian city.

While Dalian corridor's focus was on IOT (Internet of things), the Guiyang corridor will focus on 'Big Data' as Guizhou province is regarded as the IT centre of China specialising in Big Data.