In a bid to make the area a center for next-generation information technologies, a cloud data center will be built on the main island of Pingtan county in Fujian province, China’s closest gateway to Taiwan. The center will be a platform to strengthen cooperation between the province and Taiwan in the cloud computing industry, benefiting both sides of the Taiwan Strait. China Telecom and Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom have already reached an agreement to set up a cloud data processing center with 200,000 advanced servers on Pingtan Island. The local government believes that the program can attract CNY30 billion in investment, which would generate revenue of CNY14 billion annually from the software industry and other industries related with information services. The government expects the center to create 11,700 new jobs. An undersea communication cable connecting Fuzhou in Fujian province and the Tamsui district in Taiwan will be installed in the first half of the year to better serve the center. In February, the local government said they will make preferential policies designed to attract small and medium-sized enterprises from Taiwan.