Guiyang, Guian to become China's big data hub

The city of Guiyang and Guian New Area in Southwest China's Guizhou province recently set a target to become China's big data hub by constructing modern infrastructure, providing a sound environment for the digital industry, and boosting the digital economy.

Guiyang and Guian will accelerate the construction of a basic network, increase the coverage of the urban-rural integrated gigabit network, connect internet switching centers with data centers, provide cloud and computing services to the whole country, and promote the innovation of digital technologies.

As pilot areas of Innovation China, Guiyang and Guian will establish a big data technology innovation town to attract digital economy resources, become a digital economy innovation area, explore cooperation with East China, and enhance opening-up.

Guiyang and Guian will accelerate the construction of Guizhou node for the national integrated computing network, take full advantage of their strength in data center clusters, help data centers achieve intensive, large-scale, and green development, attract Southwest China's public data resources, and establish a service base facing the whole country.

Guiyang and Guian will also develop server and storage manufacturing, cloud service, software service outsourcing, data processing, and data security industries, and cultivate enterprises involved in logistics, smart medical treatment, smart tourism, digital finance technology, and data transaction.