Apple's first data centre in China will begin operations from 28 February

In a move to increase transparency and make inroads into **China** , the **first data centre of the Cupertino-based tech giant Apple** in the country will be put into operation on 28 February, the company announced on 10 January. [caption id=“attachment_4034243” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  People standing in front of an Apple logo. Reuters.[/caption] From then on, photos, documents and other personal information uploaded to iCloud accounts by Apple customers in China will be stored at a data base in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Xinhua news agency reported. The iPhone maker will start informing its Chinese iCloud users from 10 January with data transferred and uploaded to the new data base automatically. The move is aiming to increase transparency and offer Chinese customers a safer and more fluent experience of iCloud, the company was quoted as saying. Apple announced the constructing of the new data base in Guizhou last July, with an investment of $1 billion. Other major technology companies, including Amazon and Microsoft, have also made similar deals to run data centres in China. Apple’s gets most of its products manufactured in China and also sources its best electronics engineers from the there.