Enhanced hi-tech promoted to boost small businesses

Smaller private companies in Guangdong are urged to make greater use of information technologies in the modern Internet era to increase efficiency, conserve resources and expand their business.

Zou Sheng, deputy director of the Guangdong provincial department of information industry, said the use of IT is now essential to SMEs .

"Boosting information technologies will certainly help create a better electronic business environment and provide more opportunities," Zou told China Daily.