Ulaan Chab of Inna Mongolia, a cluster of big data industry on a prairie

Workers are assembling mainframe computers at a production line in Tongfang (Ulaan Chab) Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Base in the afternoon of October 20. (Photo by Liu Jinmeng/Workers’ Daily)

Workers are assembling mainframe computers at a production line in Tongfang (Ulaan Chab) Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Base in the afternoon of October 20.

Workers are assembling mainframe computers at a production line in Tongfang (Ulaan Chab) Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Base in the afternoon of October 20. (Photo by Liu Jinmeng/Workers’ Daily)

The city is firmly grasping new opportunities in big data industrial development. Relying on its geographical condition as a traffic hub, cool weather condition, rich and low-priced electricity resources, stable geographic structure, efficient fiber channels and full-fledged infrastructures, Ulaan Chab has been attracting quite a few big data companies to settle down in the city. So far 11 data centers, including Huawei, Apple, Alibaba, GDS big data bases, have been set up in Ulaan Chab, the total investment scale amounting to 49.2 billion yuan and the total server number reaching 1.9 billion. The city now enjoys the same industrial status of an inland big data city as Guiyang City in the southwest Guizhou Province does.