Clouds are quiet. So are the ones - called cloud computing - that are changing the landscape of technology and business.

In the relatively quiet and spacious Beijing Development Area (known in short as BDA) in the city's southeastern suburbs, hundreds of young engineers and programmers have quietly gathered, developing China's first-generation cloud tech applications and hardware. Where they work is called Beijing Cloud Valley.

For the past couple of years, the municipal government has been working closely with private investors and entrepreneurs in building up the city's future-oriented technology industries, cloud tech being a top priority, said Qin Jie, an investment officer in the Cloud Valley management team.

One of the unique advantages that Beijing has is its army of IT professionals and its large number of colleges that keep generating more engineers and software programmers every year.

No other city is more suitable than Beijing to champion cloud computing in China because, on a daily basis, the city is able to share it, as much as it also needs to share huge resources.

Cloud tech will be indispensable for any meaningful attempt to raise the quality of the governance of public services, Qin pointed out.

In a time of unprecedented urbanization, not just in China but also throughout the developing world, one of the most efficient ways to guarantee a basic level of fairness and citizens' satisfaction with the government is to implement cloud tech solutions in all areas of public administration.

Luckily, China is large enough, complex enough and also has enough IT engineers to be one of the world's front-runners to develop this sort of large-scale governance-enhancing solutions, Qin noted.

"It is unlike the first Internet wave, in which China lagged 20 years behind the developed economies, the US in particular, because the country was still in the early stages of its opening up, and not many people could afford a personal computer," said Qin.

"This time, in the cloud tech wave, we can run neck-and-neck with the developed economies, not just to compete but also work and contribute to each other as equal partners," he said.

Cloud computing will be used in every industry in which daily work requires the processing of a huge amount of information, or big data, from banking to telecommunications, and from government to the management of all sub-systems of the social security network.

With a new generation of platforms and frameworks, "we can support thousands of users operating at the same time, to bring them relevant data from everywhere, on which they can operate and develop their own solutions", Qin explained.

"Doing so can be extremely economical, extremely intelligent and help work out extremely complex issues, in ways that people never thought of in the past."

For exactly that reason, Qin pointed out, any successful models of implementation in China, a country with some of the largest cities and the most complex management problems in the world, would inevitably attract attention from other solution providers involving similar cases in other countries.