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.
From January to August, Guiyang City and Guian New Area in Southwest China's Guizhou province attracted 61.9 billion yuan ($8.63 billion) in industrial capital in place.
Guiyang and the nearby Guian New Area are continuing to focus on improving their levels of technological innovation and are widely said to have met with considerable success in this endeavor.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In recent year, Guiyang in Southwest China's Guizhou province has been actively embracing this global trade initiative.
Guiyang Customs recently announced 10 measures to support the high-quality development of Guian New Area. It aims to play the role of customs as a hub for domestic and international dual circulation and contribute to the open and high-quality economic development of Guian.