BANGKOK, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese software company Kingsoft said on Friday that they have signed a MoU with Thai government to gradually donate their WPS Office software worth of 4 billion RMB (615 million U.S. dollars) to Thai educational institutions.
Zhong Weidong, vice president of the company signed a MoU with Nuttapon Nimmanphatcharin, director of Digital Economy Promotion Agency at an event called Digital Thailand Big Bang 2017 held by Thai government.
The company said they would like to contribute to the "Thailand 4.0" strategy, which is put forward by Thai government to realize digital transformation, by offering their Office software to all educational institutions, to teachers and students for free.
They also said they will work with Xiaomi Inc. and Kingsoft Cloud to provide "secure, efficient and easy-to-use Office software and cloud services" to Thai government, educational institutions, enterprises, etc.
"We hope our partners, users, both Thais and Chinese, can help us to build a eco-system based on WPS Office and cloud computing, so we can provide more services to our users here, especially to students and teachers." said Ge Ke, chief executive officer of Kingsoft WPS.