Digital China Network Co., Ltd recently announced that it will build an innovation center with Peking University. They will focus on research in smart cities, big data, cloud computing, robots, blockchains and other new technologies.
The center has five major purposes, namely basic research of advanced technology, breakthroughs in key technologies, project funding, policy and rule making, and talent cultivation. It will undertake research in those areas and explore the current state of technological-achievement industrialization in Chinese universities. Manufacturers, scholars and other stakeholders will be consulted in construction of the center as an authority on smart cities in China and net configuration software. Through the combination of "Internet + City" and "Internet + Data", Digital China intends to improve its essential competitiveness.
