HarryData, an interactive operating system promoted as the "brain" of a Smart City, will be the focus of a new DHC Southern R&D Center in Zhuhai. The facility will locate in and help Hengqin New Area better experience various public services while promoting rapid development of a digital economy.
Shenzhen-listed DHC Software of Beijing will lend its Smart City technology, platform, and resources to Hengqin New Area via its subsidiary DHC Smart City. The cooperative agreement was signed on May 9.
Together, they will serve as DHC Software's R&D headquarters and Product Application & Display Center. They are expected to have wide-reaching influence in the country.

Signing ceremony [Photo courtesy nanfangplus]
In collaboration with Tencent's Raydata, HarryData can deeply integrate visualized presentation and application services. Specifically, it presents a variety of urban scenarios related to tourism, transport, medical care, governmental affairs, the economy, passenger flow, police affairs, and other information in the form of data.
With HarryData as a foundation, the R&D center will promote intelligent tourism, governmental affairs, food, and transport as its core business. Advanced technologies, including Big Data, cloud computing, Internet +, Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), will propel the centralization and intellectualization of information resources, allowing city departments to coordinate, share, and connect with each other.
Founded in 2001, DHC Software Co Ltd is headquartered in Zhongguancun Science Park (ZGC), known as China's Silicon Valley. The company is a Key Software Enterprise within the National Programming Layout, Key Enterprise of National Secure & Reliable Computer Information System Integration, and Key Hi-Tech Enterprise of the China Torch Program.
The company says it chose Hengqin because it is an important part of the Guangdong Free Trade Area and has unique taxation, talent, innovation and entrepreneurship, and financial policies.