BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Country Garden had signed strategic cooperation agreements with 21 institutions from China, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom in Country Garden Pacific View, which is located in Johor Bahru, capital city of Johor State, Malaysia, in a bid to promote the construction of a new industrial city and economic and trade cooperation zone.
Situated in the Malaysian Special Economic Zone Iskandar, Country Garden Pacific View is a smart ecological city with a population capacity of several hundred thousands of people, which was invested a total of 100 billion U.S. dollars by Country Garden jountly with Sasaki and other international teams, covering an area of about 30 square kilometers.
At the ceremony, the Country Garden Pacific View signed contract with PCCW Global and other three companies to co-build a smart city. It will cooperate with Fox in Singapore and other four companies to develop the tourism industry. In addition, it will cooperate with Johor Youth Entrepreneurship Association, Malaysia Imagineering Institute, Malaysia MaGIC, Science and Technology Innovation Group, China Nash Space to create innovative business service platforms. It is reported that PCCW Global will provide leading communications solutions that will enable the Forest City project to have a future-oriented data center. (Edited by Ma Xin, maxin11@xinhua.org)