The "City Brain" is displayed in Guizhou National Big Data Exhibition Center. (PHOTO: VCG)

By Staff Reporters

Dubbed as China's Data Valley, Gui'an New Area in Guiyang and Anshun cities in southwest China's Guizhou province is pioneering development of the digital economy.

Statistics show that in 2022, the contribution rate of big data to the economic growth of Guiyang and Gui'an rose to 44.5 percent, reaching a record high.

By promoting integration of the digital economy with the real economy, Guiyang has got a new engine to drive its economic development.

A number of tech giants have settled here, and developed into major big data enterprises. In 2022, the revenue of software and information technology services in Guiyang and Gui'an grew by 87.6 percent.

In its 2023 government work report, Guiyang government proposed that the city will seize the opportunity to build a base for gathering computing resources nationwide.

With the implementation of the national project of "channeling computing resources from the east to west," the area has more prominent advantages to develop itself into one of the eight hubs of the national integrated computing network.

Boasting abundant clean electricity resources, stable geological structure, and cool climate, the area is conducive to building energy-saving data centers. Huawei Cloud is located here and expected to save 1.01 billion kilowatt hours of electricity when operating at full capacity, which is equivalent to planting 35.67 million trees annually.

At present, the supercomputing center in Gui'an New Area has a computing power of more than one trillion times per second. It has provided strong computing support for digital cultural content production, medicine, imaging, astronomical science, and other fields.

To realize more efficient circulation of data, Guiyang operated the country's first big data exchange center. After reorganization in 2022, the center is exploring new ways to manage data as resources, assets or capitals.

Now Guiyang is stepping up its efforts to build an improved ecosystem for the digital economy. It welcomes more entrepreneurs from around the world to set up businesses so as to achieve revolutionary development of the big data industry.