2017年CRI Amazon launches innovation center in Qingdao（在线收听）

The Qingdao-Amazon Web Service (AWS) Joint Innovation Center is the first of its kind in China. [Photo: enet.com.cn]

Amazon's cloud-computing arm has launched a global joint innovation center in the coastal city of Qingdao, the first of its kind in China, providing services for global startups.

The Qingdao-Amazon Web Service (AWS) Joint Innovation Center will also include an innovation institute to train professionals.

Working with the local government, the new facilities will support 750 innovation firms in the next five years.

For more on this, CRI's Shane Bigham spoke earlier with Mike Bastin, Director of the China Business Center at Southampton Solent University in the UK.