Microsoft is expected to establish an innovation centre in south China’s Hainan Province, the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland.
An agreement in this regard was signed between Microsoft and the Hainan provincial Government, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Microsoft will also build a “Microsoft IT Academy” in Hainan to boost the training of IT experts, the report said.
Microsoft founder, Bill Gates is currently in Hainan attending the Boao Forum for Asia.
Based on Microsoft’s leading technology platform, the Microsoft Innovation Centre will attract software enterprises in the fields of tourism and agriculture in Hainan, Li Guoliang, deputy governor of Hainan said. Li said the Government hopes to nurture an ecology-related industrial software chain worth 5 billion yuan ($798 million).