An investment promotion event is hosted by Hohhot in Shenzhen, Dec 1. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Horinger New Area in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was center stage during an investment promotion event opening in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, on Dec 1, according to local media reports.

Horinger New Area is located in the core area of the Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos-Yulin urban agglomeration and is a new engine and demonstration area for the high-quality economic development of the autonomous region.

Since its establishment, relying on its local industry foundations and developmental advantages, industrial clusters such as the digital economy, life sciences, new materials, and modern service industries have begun to be constructed in Horinger New Area, making it a technological highland, industrial highland and application highland for the development of strategic emerging industries in the autonomous region. 

More than 300 entrepreneurs participated in the event. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

In recent years, Horinger has supported the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure by relying on its industrial base advantages, and has accelerated the introduction of various big data and cloud computing infrastructure projects.

Three major operators - China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - have established the largest cloud computing data center bases in Horinger, and successively attracted enterprises including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Inspur and Sinopec, as well as the data storage business of national ministries.

It has formed a big data industry chain that includes core businesses such as data storage, cleaning and processing, and related businesses such as electronic information manufacturing, software and information services, service outsourcing, e-commerce, big data finance, and AI innovation incubation.

Earlier in August, Horinger New Area was selected as one of the Most Valuable New Districts (Regions) for Investment and Business, along with Xiongan New Area and Lanzhou New Area.

The Inner Mongolia HPC Public Service (Qingcheng Light) located in Horinger, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. [Photo/Hohhot Daily]