Since the State Council officially released the document "Outline for the Promotion of Big Data Development" in September 2015, the state has paid increasing attention to the role of big data in economic and social development. Thus the "Implementation of National Big Data Strategy" proposed at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee remedies the chronic absence of guidelines for the development of China's data industry. Its purpose is to provide policy guidance for data providers and those who demand them. Additionally, the Big Data Industry Development Plan (2016-2020) will be released soon, and this suggests that big-data industry practitioners should start their engines.

Main highlights of the big-data industry in 2017!

Data-processing methods such as cloud computing and fog computing have become less novel in recent years. With the increasing prevalence of tie-ups between countries, the government has anticipated the chance to leverage the value data and develop national strategic resources. The question of how to use this new type of resource to benefit both the country and the people must be answered so that the country can capitalize on big data. Coincidentally, on November 17, 2016, the People's Daily published an article articulating that infrastructure such as big data, cloud-computing centers and the Internet of Things would soon be integrated. On the same day, Xinhua News Agency published an interview with expert Ning Jiajun on the theme of "promoting big-data strategy to build a cyberpower." According to Ning, the implementation of a big-data development strategy will help China keep up with the times and will be an effective way to promote the deep integration of industrialization and informatization. Vice Minister Huai Jinpeng, of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said the development of China's big-data industry faces significant opportunities and challenges and must be accelerated. Thus the Big Data Industry Development Plan (2016-2020) initiated by that ministry will also be released soon. These signs indicate that data platforms such as those of GTCOM, which are devoted to the big-data industry in response to national policy, should be well prepared to make a move.

13th Five-Year Plan of Big Data brings two types of companies that will make a difference

The introduction of various policies demonstrates the country's determination to regulate the development of the big-data industry and encourage people to see the importance of the big-data industry's development. Amid the current situation, companies that own data or provide customers with big-data analysis, operations and services will ultimately emerge as front-runners. The companies that own data include Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Baidu, etc., all of which have huge numbers of registered users and operational information that can be used as reference and guidance for the industry. Logically, the companies that provide customers with big-data analysis services should become more professional because, in the future, they will provide enterprises with more convenient decision-making support through the expert integration of "unknown" data. This includes helping enterprises to identify and understand users and resources, implement precise production and conduct intelligent operations. Inevitably, it will enhance the core competitiveness of the current market players as they proceed toward economic globalization. Again, the topic returns to the industry, in which we face the question of how the industry applications of big data respond to policy orientations. In the field of big data, GTCOM has taken the lead in realizing the automatic discovery of data sources; the automatic classification, labeling and structuring of texts; and the horizontal elastic expansion of data, thus incurring disruptive changes throughout the industry.

Taking the lead in getting out of the dilemma of data industry applications in response to national policies

On the "hard and arduous" path of response to the national 13th Five-Year Plan of Big Data and the creation of a big-data platform, Alibaba took the lead in completing the Alibaba Cloud platform, and the Haier Industrial Intelligence Research Institute came into being. Moreover, companies that provide customers with big-data analysis, operation and services under the call of the government have been highlighted.

The high-profile GTCOM "Data Path ? Infinite" Global Big Data Summit was held in Beijing on December 29, 2016. At the meeting, GTCOM introduced YeeSight Big Data Analysis Platform 2.0. Reportedly, YeeSight's data volume can reach an EB level. Additionally, GTCOM and Haier reached a consensus on the building of a big-data lab, and they entered a big-data strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba Cloud at the Computing Conference. Accordingly, as the industry proceeds toward a bright tomorrow, GTCOM will lead the way.