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For those aren’t familiar with the status quo of Internet access over here, China has three major state-run operators – China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile – providing broadband Internet access. Let’s just ignore the 20 or so minor player in the market since they’re not making it any easier. Most of the time, a China Telecom user will find it very slow when s/he tries to browse a website hosted in IDC powered by China Unicom, and vice versa. The problem is in existence since like forever and never get decently addressed. So chances are, business traveller who uploads a file in Beijing which is in the north part of the country will find it hardly retrievable when he lands in the southern Guangzhou city. To solve the problem, Kanbox after the second round promised to invest more than hundreds of millions of RMB to ramp up its infrastructure.

In the face of rapid user growth – Huang used a very interesting metaphor – what Amazon S3-backed Dropbox needs to do is swipe their credit card, while Kanbox dispatches dozens of engineers who are busy buying servers and cranking up hard disks in IDCs scattered around the vast territory. Open Platform

Earlier this year, Kanbox announced its own open platform through which developers could capitalize on Kanbox’s stable storing power by using its API. It already saw some very creative use cases.

Meitu Xiuxiu, one of the most popular Chinese photo beautifier is built upon Kanbox’s cloud servers, saving it the hassle of setting up its own online storage.

Kanbox will be holding an app contest in the second half of this year to inspire more interesting products that use its infrastructure as their premise. Just like what Amazon’s S3 means to the Valley startups, Huang is hoping Kanbox could serve as some sort of incubator for Chinese entrepreneurs. Everyone is spouting about how small the team – like Instagram’s 13 or Dropbox’s about 10 – is in Silicon Valley, nobody looks beyond the entrepreneurial myth to brood on the significant importance of Amazon’s cloud service.

And now, Kanbox is looking to fulfill Chinese startups’ demands on that front.