Over the past year, Gui'an New Area in Southwest China's Guizhou province implemented various measures to create a first-class business environment characterized by marketization, rule of law, and internationalization.
Guiyang International Land Port and Qingzhen International Land Port reported 5,126 freight train carriages with a cargo throughput of 241,600 metric tons in the first quarter of this year.
As the core area of China's first big data comprehensive pilot zone, Gui'an New Area has striven to attract data centers, and has in the process emerged as one of the areas with the largest number of large and super-large data centers in the world.
The latest data showed that as of April 22, Gui'an New Area in Southwest China's Guizhou province had signed 30 projects since the beginning of this year, achieving more than half of its annual investment attraction target of 30 billion yuan.
In December last year, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology designated Guiyang as a pilot city for the transfer of the electronic information manufacturing industry in Southwest China's Guizhou province.
The signing ceremony for the Weixin super-intelligent integrated computing power center project – a key project in Guiyang City and Gui'an New Area's supercomputer infrastructure layout – took place in the Gui'an Free Trade Zone on Feb 22.
In 2023, the GDP of Gui'an New Area increased by 24.1 percent compared to the previous year, making it the fastest-growing national-level new area in the country.
According to the "2023 innovation capacity evaluation report of national innovative cities" recently released by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Guiyang's innovation capacity index is 59.64, an increase of 0.9 compared to the previous year.
A truck carrying 43 metric tons of agricultural products from Southwest China's Guizhou province drove out of Gui'an Free Trade Zone (Gui'an FTZ) on Dec 28, marking the official opening of the Southeast Asia cross-border logistics route.
According to Guiyang Customs, in the first 10 months of this year, the total value of Guizhou province's imports and exports reached 53.29 billion yuan.