Force for progress

Wang Jian, director of China's Zhejiang Laboratory, said: "I've been working on cloud computing for a long time, and finally realized actually all the cloud computing we're talking about is actually on the ground.

"And this is the first time we really put the computing in the inner space. We have three kinds of satellites — communication, navigation, and observation, and now we could have the fourth type of satellites, which I call the computing satellites."