China builds undersea fiber optic cables to boost

China is building the country's only offshore international undersea fibre-optic cable that will carry information and data between China and asean countries.China is also building a china-asean information port for the 21st century maritime silk road project.

China is building the country's only offshore international undersea fiber optic cable link, which will carry information and data between China and asean countries, according to a report on September 14.China is also building a china-asean information port for the 21st century maritime silk road project.

Jiang zhengxin, vice President of China unicom, said the company is working with myanmar's telecom operators to build undersea cables.

China first proposed the china-asean information port in September last year, which includes building five cooperation platforms conducive to China and asean member states, covering infrastructure, information sharing, technical cooperation, economic and trade services and people-to-people exchanges.

Lu wei, director of the state Internet information office of China, said the initiative, which is supported and welcomed by asean members, aims to make the china-asean information port an information hub for building the 21st century maritime silk road.

According to China's plan, the information port base will be located in nanning, guangxi, including 34 key projects with a total investment of about 20.9 billion yuan.

According to the website of Hong Kong's south China morning post on September 14, One Belt And One Road plans to take another step forward.Chinese officials announced at the china-asean information port BBS that the country will push for the establishment of a china-asean information port construction fund and increase investment in information infrastructure relying on the Asian infrastructure investment bank and the silk road fund.

In addition, China's beidou system will also help build china-asean information ports.

Asean information port BBS opened in nanning, guangxi on September 13.

China, Vietnam and the Philippines, members of the association of southeast Asian nations (asean), have sovereignty disputes in the south China sea.