Cover Story: 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 Ltd. Its request for proposals in November attracted a flood of bids from domestic IT equipment and cloud service vendors including Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. TravelSky had been relying on foreign equipment and now has to increase its use of made-in-China products, a state-owned vendor participating the bidding told Caixin.