The Nanhai People's Government of Foshan, Guangdong province and Fujitsu have agreed to jointly invest and build the Fujitsu South China Data Center, Fujitsu's first world-class data centre in China, in the Guangdong High-tech Service Zone for Financial Institutions.
The cooperation between the Nanhai People's Government of Foshan, Guangdong province and Fujitsu began in 2007. After the establishment of the Guangdong High-tech Service Zone for Financial Institutions, in accordance with the requirements of building Nanhai into a back-office service base of financial institutions, Nanhai District sought to engage in talks with leading IT firms worldwide. Initial contacts were made with Fujitsu in late 2007. Over the past two years, senior management of both parties have visited each other and made in-depth exchanges in areas such as financial data business, IT services and software. Both Nanhai and Fujitsu have identified areas for co-operation and have gradually achieved a consensus, which was then translated into a series of co-operation agreements with concrete results.
The signing of the cooperation agreement denotes a new level of the bilateral co-operation between Nanhai District and Fujitsu. Fujitsu South China Data Center is the first confirmed project since both parties began working together two years ago. With a total investment of US$29.5 million and a gross construction area of approximately 10,000 square meters, the project is expected to begin operations in early 2011. The new world-class data center will offer system application management and maintenance through contracted service; IT support management, bank back-office service and data processing service.

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