Beijing’s big data reach is getting bigger.

A watchdog for the capital’s information and technology industry inked 18 partnerships with tech giants, telecoms companies, banks and more on Wednesday.

The deals will accelerate the city’s “big data action plan,” a government-backed project enacted last year to enhance the capital’s overall big data capabilities. 

It’s unknown what sort of data the deals will offer the capital, but they include some major institutional partners: all of China’s telecoms carriers, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, Export-Import Bank of China, Xinhua News Agency’s China Economic Information Service, local infrastructure giant Beijing Infrastructure Investment, the think tank Beijing Institute of Big Data Research, and a corporate internet safety subsidiary of Qihoo 360 Technology.

The government says over 40 municipal units are already sharing undisclosed data internally, and the next step is to incorporate non-government collaborators to boost the “vitality” of a data-sharing ecosystem in the city.

Beijing did not specify whether the contracts were signed as bilateral documents with each of the partners or as a collective consensus.

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