China’s first conference supporting its new mega data project kicked off over the weekend in Shaoguan, a prefecture-level city in the north of southern Guangdong province, showing the city’s ambition to become a data hub for the Greater Bay Area . In February, China started working on its “Eastern Data and Western Computing” project to build an integrated big data system that will connect digital resources in the two regions with the establishment of 10 national data centre clusters and eight computing hubs. The new event, which started on Saturday and runs through Monday, is the first national conference designed...