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Report: China hikes spending on cloud

China has increased spending on cloud infrastructure services in the first quarter of the year, according to a report by technology market research firm Canalys. Such expenditure on the Chinese mainland hit $7.7 billion in the first three months, up 6 percent from a year ago, Canalys said. The country's spending accounted for 12 percent of the global total, it said. The top four cloud service vendors were Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Baidu AI Cloud, remaining unchanged in the first quarter, according to the report.

Heilongjiang sees foreign trade growth

Heilongjiang province in Northeast China saw foreign trade in goods grow 18.3 percent year-on-year to 118.8 billion yuan ($16.59 billion) in the first five months of 2023, according to local Customs. While imports rose 12.1 percent year-on-year to 91.79 billion yuan, exports climbed 45.7 percent to 27.01 billion yuan, data from Harbin Customs showed. The province's export of goods, including mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products, maintained strong growth during the period. It also saw an increase in imports of agricultural products.

Xinhua - China Daily