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.
A business conference on the industrial transfer from the Yangtze River Delta region to Gui'an New Area in Southwest China's Guizhou province was held in Shanghai on April 16, welcoming six chambers of commerce and 35 company representatives to participate.
Recent updates from the investment promotion bureau of Guiyang Big Data Sci-tech Innovation City in Southwest China's Guizhou province revealed a promising start to the year, with 14 projects signed in the first quarter.
Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has implemented a series of convenient customs clearance measures to promote the efficiency of its import and export work, thus helping foreign trade companies to go global and accelerating the development of foreign trade.
In the first quarter, Guiyang City and Gui'an New Area in Southwest China's Guizhou province initiated 148 major projects, all of which have a total investment of 46.41 billion yuan.
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.
"In 2025, Guiyang City and Gui'an New Area aim to grow the added-value of the digital economy to account for 55 percent of the regional GDP," said Xu Xianwen, deputy director of the Guiyang bureau of big data development and management, during a press conference on Jan 16.
According to a press conference on digital economy development in Guiyang City and Gui'an New Area held on Jan 16, Guiyang's electronic information manufacturing industry is expected to achieve a production value of 33 billion yuan in 2023, ranking first in the province.
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.