Chinese information technology company Inspur Group said it hopes to collaborate with the Indian government in its effort to transform the country into a smart nation.

"We want to partner with India in building its smart cities, as envisioned by the new government. We are a leading firm in hardware and India is good in software and I think our association will be wonderful," said Zhang Dong, Inspur's vice president.

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"Our president visited India earlier and last week the Indian Ambassador in China visited us. I will be visiting India next week for month-and-a-half." Dong said.

"The idea would be to meet officials and explore the possibilities of a collaboration,"

The Chinese tech giant, a leader in server technology and software development, played a major role back in its homeland, China.

It helped the country move from mainframe to cloud computing. With its previous experience, Inspur said it hopes to help India with its current project.

Two months ago, multinational networking company Cisco Systems, Inc. unveiled its "Cisco Smart City" that covers 2.6 million square feet of space located in the city of Banglore in India.

Cisco also announced plans to collaborate with India's Department of Information Technology and the government of Karnataka to digitize the country.

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