China’s cloud infrastructure service spending reached $9.4 billion in the second quarter of 2024, marking an 8% year-on-year growth, according to the latest data from Canalys. The country’s leading cloud providers—Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and Tencent Cloud—dominate the market, collectively holding a 71% share. Despite broader macroeconomic conditions slowing growth in some sectors, cloud service […]
China Cloud Computing
Top cloud computing companies in China include Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, Baidu, JD, China Telecom, etc. Overall, Alibaba has the largest market share in China while Baidu leads in AI Cloud. Find out more.
China Cloud Computing Market Forecast
By 2021, more than 90% of Chinese enterprises will rely on a combination of local/exclusive private clouds, multiple public clouds, and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs, according to IDC.
By 2022, 50% of enterprises will deploy unified VMS, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud management processes and tools to support multi-cloud management and governance across local and public cloud deployments.
By 2022, 60% of China's top 500 enterprises will invest in the automation, orchestration and development life cycle management of cloud-native applications and platforms.
By 2023, 90% of new digital services will use services provided by the public cloud and internal APIs to build composite applications; half of them will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
By 2023, 50% of Chinese enterprise applications will be deployed in a containerized hybrid / multi-cloud environment to provide an agile, seamless deployment and management experience.
By 2024, 10% of the internal workload of the enterprise will be supported by the public cloud stack outside the data center of the public cloud service provider, located in the customer data center and at the edge.
By 2024, 55% of Chinese enterprises will reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise application customization by investing in SaaS applications and platforms in specific industries.
By 2024, 50% of large Chinese enterprises will rely on the help of third-party service providers (SPs) in container, open-source and cloud-native application development.
By 2025, 50% of China's enterprise IT infrastructure spending will be allocated to the public cloud, and a quarter of enterprise IT applications will run on public cloud services.
China’s Cloud Market Enters a New AI Era
The landscape of China’s cloud services industry is undergoing a seismic shift, propelled by the burgeoning applications of artificial intelligence (AI). As the sector moves beyond the intense competition over large-scale AI models that characterized last year, this year marks the rise of AI-driven applications as the new battleground. This evolution signals a transformative phase […]
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On March 29, 2024, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., a global leader in information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, released its annual report for the fiscal year 2023. Despite facing unprecedented challenges in recent years, Huawei has demonstrated resilience and an unwavering commitment to innovation, which is evident in its latest financial results […]
China’s Video Cloud Market Navigates Through Slowdown: Insights from IDC’s 2023 Mid-Year Report
IDC has released its mid-year report, “China Video Cloud Market Tracker, First Half of 2023,” outlining current trends and projections within the industry. In a market contending with a post-pandemic deceleration in consumer entertainment demand and reduced IT expenditure from industry clients, China’s video cloud market faced a 7.0% year-on-year decline, reaching $4.62 billion. The […]
China’s Edge Cloud Market Grows by 53.5% in Second Half of 2022
In the second half of 2022, the scale of China’s edge cloud market reached 4.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 53.5%, according to a recent report by the International Data Corporation (IDC). The market size of edge public cloud services, edge dedicated cloud services, and edge cloud solutions reached 2.32 billion yuan, 670 million […]
China’s Digital-Native Businesses’ IT Expenditure Expected to Soar to $40 Billion by 2026
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China cloud computing market in 2021; top 4 have 80% market share
China’s cloud infrastructure services market grew by 45% to US$27.4 billion in 2021 according to Canalys.
China’s ICT Market Set to Surpass $2 Trillion Over the Next Four Years: IDC Reports
China’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) spending for developing and operating digital businesses is projected to exceed US$2 trillion over the next four years, according to a report shared by the International Data Corporation (IDC) at its Directions event in Shenzhen. Amid global economic, political, and social disruptions, businesses are expected to leverage the latest […]
China’s Public Cloud Services Market Growth Slows in H2 2022, Still Shows Promise for Future
China’s public cloud services market (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) reached $18.84 billion in the second half of 2022, according to the latest report from International Data Corporation (IDC). The IaaS market saw year-on-year growth of 15.7%, while the PaaS market grew at 31.8%. Compared to the first half of 2022, the combined IaaS and PaaS market growth slowed […]
China public cloud market share in 2021; IaaS+PaaS grew by 43% in H2
In the second half of 2021, the overall market of China’s public cloud services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) reached US$15.13 billion, of which the IaaS market increased by 40.1% (47.5% in H1) and the PaaS market increased by 55.7% (53.9% in H1) year-on-year, according to data from IDC.
Alibaba Cloud launched SaaS platform to help companies achieve carbon neutrality goals
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China digital transformation spending forecast 2021-2026
The Chinese government’s digital economy related planning during the 14th Five Year Plan period provides good policy and financial support. The total digital economy related investment in the next five years will be 15-20 trillion yuan. COVID-19 and other emergencies further highlight the value of digitalization. IDC’s survey in 2021 shows that due to the […]
China Internet of Things market forecast 2021-2026
In 2021, the global Internet of Things (enterprise-level) expenditure reached $690.26 billion and is expected to reach $1.1 trillion in 2026, with a five-year (2022-2026) compound growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7%, according to data from IDC. Among them, China’s enterprise market will reach US$294 billion in 2026, with a compound growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2%. […]
China’s edge computing server market forecast 2022-2025
China’s edge computing server market reached US$3.31 billion in 2021, an increase of 23.9% over 2020. IDC predicts that from 2020 to 2025, the annual compound growth rate of the edge computing servers market in China will reach 22.2%, higher than 20.2% in the world. According to the deployment location, IDC classifies edge computing into […]
China enterprise SaaS market overview and forecast
After the market recovered in 2018 and the growth fell slightly in 2019, caused by the epidemic, the growth rate of SaaS market rose again in 2020. In 2020, the SaaS market in China reached 53.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 48.7%. At this stage, the capital market’s attitude towards SaaS is more rational, […]