China's drive to kick the foreign IT habit

Under government pressure, China's giant state-owned enterprises are rushing to crank up domestic purchases of innovative information technology applications.

One is the travel information provider TravelSky Technology. Its request for proposals in November attracted a flood of bids from domestic IT equipment and cloud service vendors including Huawei Technologies. TravelSky had been relying on foreign equipment and now has to increase use of made-in-China products, a state-owned vendor participating in the bidding told Caixin.