An entire town devoted to the development of virtual reality technology is taking shape in Nanchang, the capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, news agency Xinhua reports.

Nanchang

In a bid to seek new growth and lead China's VR boom the “VR Town” will occupy 9sq.km and will attract a gross investment of around CN¥50bn (US$7bn).

The project will support platforms of enterprise services and talent training to further boost VR applications, hardware manufacturing, software engineering and content production.

Chinese tech firm Huawei will help facilitate the operation and management with technical support for the communications network, cloud computing and big data, the company said.