The municipal government of Shenzhen and the Chinese business-to-business e-commerce company Alibaba Group have signed a strategic agreement for the establishment of an e-commerce platform.

French retail giant Carrefour and China Unicom Guangdong branch have formed a strategic alliance and have signed a cooperative agreement.

According to Gu Weizhong, director of the Guangdong Communications Administration, to promote the integration of mobile communications fees in the Pearl River Delta, the administration will ask basic telecommunications enterprises to reduce or even cancel the long-distance and roaming fees of calls made between cities in the Pearl River Delta in southern China.

Fujitsu China, the Chinese subsidiary of the Japan-headquartered IT service provider Fujitsu, has signed a strategic cooperative memorandum with the government of Nanhai district, Foshan, Guangdong province, to build a financial data center in the area to promote cooperation in the Pearl River Delta.

China's leading e-commerce platform Alibaba Group has recently announced a global recruitment plan to hire 3,000 technology talents across the world.

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba formally located its South China headquarters in Guangzhou Development District, making it the group's second regional headquarters since the opening of its Hangzhou headquarters.

Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba, said in a meeting with Guangzhou officials that Alibaba would set up its southern China regional data center in Guangzhou.