The Lishui municipal government has engaged ChinaSoft International and Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of the Alibaba Group, in its move toward government cloud services.
The city is one of the 13 "smart city" pilot projects in China's Zhejiang province. The project aims to use cloud computing as the foundation for the e-government public platform and provide a cloud services platform to support third-party services.
As the project's cloud computing service provider, Alibaba Cloud will be responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of the smart government services cloud platform. ChinaSoft, as the project's cloud integrator, will undertake the consulting, planning, research, design and implementation work, deploying the cloud migration of the existing government services applications to the new cloud platform.
Based on Alibaba's cloud computing platform, ChinaSoft will also provide independently owned intellectual property product "ResourceOne Cloud" ("R1 Cloud") middleware to the Lishui municipal government's subsequent cloud applications. ChinaSoft will be responsible for the overall planning, development and operations for the Lishui smart government services cloud applications
The Lishui project furthers the technical cooperation between Alibaba Cloud and ChinaSoft, following the two companies' strategic cooperation last year, and this time covers all three main layers of cloud services - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
Both Alibaba Cloud and ChinaSoft intend to continue jointly developing more large-scale government cloud applications, including those involving citizen's daily lives, a recent policy emphasis in China