Guiyang listed among top 100 cities in digital economy

Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, ranked 28th on the list of the 2024 Top 100 Cities in Digital Economy released by CCID Consulting. It comprehensively assessed the digital industrialization, industrial digitalization, and development vitality of the digital economy in China's 337 cities in 2024.

As of March this year, Guiyang City and Gui'an New Area have put into operation, began construction on, or signed contracts for 21 large-scale and above data centers, with a completed standard rack capacity of 137,000 racks and a server capacity of 1.37 million units. By July this year, the computing power of Guiyang and Gui'an had reached 38 EFLOPS, with smart computing accounting for over 95 percent, putting them among the regions with the most abundant and strongest smart computing resources in the country.

Regarding the digital economy as the primary driving force, Guiyang and Gui'an have been focusing on the electronic information manufacturing as well as the software and information technology services industries in recent years. From January to June this year, the output value of the electronic information manufacturing industry above a designated size in Guiyang and Gui'an reached 12.25 billion yuan ($1.69 billion), a year-on-year increase of 28.2 percent.

Guiyang and Gui'an have strived to develop industrial software, cloud-based software, embedded software, security products, and software outsourcing, driving the development of enterprises in data labeling, data cleaning, data processing and data modeling, and introducing a total of 57 Huawei-system-based enterprises. From January to June this year, the revenue of the software and information technology services industry in Guiyang and Gui'an reached 47.41 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.7 percent.