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ACRONYMS
Acronym Full Name
ACSI Advisory Committee for State Informatization
API Application Programming Interface
C2SC China Standard Software Co. Ltd.
CCIC China Cloud Innovation Center
CCP Chinese Communist Party
CCSA Chinese Communications Standards Association
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CESI China Electronics Technology Standardization Institute
CETC China Electronic Technology Group Corporation
CIE China Institute of Electronics
CIRA Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis
CSA Cloud Security Alliance
CSIA China Software Industry Association
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
DGI Defense Group Inc.
DMTF Distributed Management Task Force
DOD Department of Defense
EC2 Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
FYP Five Year Plan
HP Hewlett Packard
HPC High-Performance Computing
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
ICP Internet Content Provider
ICP Integrated Command Platforms
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IP Internet Protocol
IT Information Technology
ITSS Information Technology Services Standard
ITU International Telecom Union
MIIT Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
MLP Medium and Long-Term Plan
MLPS Multi-Level Protection Scheme
MOST Ministry of Science and Technology
MSS Ministry of State Security
NDRC National Development and Reform Commission
NGO non-governmental organization
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NITSTC National Information Technology Standards Technical Committee
NTCISS National Technical Committee for Information Security Standardization
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PaaS Platform as a Service
PC Personal Computer
PLA People's Liberation Army
PoP Point of Presence
PUE Power Unit Effectiveness
R&D Research and Development
RI Research Institute
RMB Renminbi
SSD Solid State Hard Drive
S&T Science and Technology
SaaS Software as a Service
SEI Strategic Emerging Industry
SME Small-to-Medium Enterprises
SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
US United States
USD United States Dollars
USITC United States International Trade Commission
USITO United States Information Technology Office
VM Virtual Machine
WOFE Wholly-owned Foreign Entities
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In recent years the Chinese government has prioritized the development of cloud computing technology with the twin goals of expanding Chinese military and civilian access to cloud computing information technology (IT) resources and creating an internationally competitive Chinese cloud computing service industry. As part of a larger development strategy for advancing Chinese software and information technology services, the Chinese government plans to make more than one billion dollars (USD) available over the...