The information technology authority of Beijing municipal government signed a strategic partnership agreement with its counterpart in Hebei province on Thursday to build a cloud computing industrial park in Zhangbei county, where the largest data center in the region is expected to set up and offer services to the capital's high-tech firms.

The industrial park in Hebei province's Zhangjiakou city will offer cloud computing services to high-tech companies in Beijing, especially those in the city's high-tech Zhongguancun Science Park.

The strategic partnership matches the research and development capacity of companies in Beijing and their surging demand for data processing with the desirable climate of Zhangbei county, which is 225 km away from Beijing.