Global Times: Guizhou continues to strengthen and optimize its digital economy

BEIJING, Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Guizhou Province's ongoing efforts to seize new opportunities in the digital economy are reflected in three sets of striking data: the blink of a human eye takes 100 to 400 milliseconds, while data transmission from Guiyang city in Guizhou to Guangzhou city in South China's Guangdong Province takes only 10 milliseconds.

And, 24 key industries in Guizhou are fostering nearly 100 large-model application scenarios, with more than 500 new ones to be added in the next three years. In 2024, the province's software and IT service industry revenue exceeded 100 billion yuan, and the growth rate of its digital economy ranked among the top in China for nine consecutive years.

Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected Southwest China's Guizhou Province in March of this year. When hearing the provincial authorities report their work, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for actively developing strategic emerging industries and enhancing industries such as the digital economy and new energy.

Guided by Xi's important instructions, Guizhou is focusing on developing computing power, data, applications, and manufacturing, continuously strengthening its digital economy, advancing the high-quality development of a digital economy innovation zone, and deepening the empowerment of digital intelligence to lead and support social governance, public services, and industrial upgrading.

Laying the foundation

A self-driving shuttle bus equipped with cameras, lidar and ultrasonic sensors accurately detects pedestrians, running vehicles and traffic lights, enabling autonomous driving.

"The vehicle's onboard chips can perform one trillion floating-point operations per second, and in the event of an emergency, it can respond with a control action within 10 milliseconds," said Wu Yihui, an engineer at a Guizhou-based intelligent technology company. This minibus model has now been sold to more than 30 countries and regions.

Computing power is the foundation of the digital economy. At present, Guizhou has 49 major data centers either under construction or already in operation, with computing power exceeding 86 EFLOPS. The proportions of intelligent computing, major equipment manufacturing, and regional concentration have all surpassed 90 percent, making Guizhou one of the leading regions in China in terms of intelligent computing capacity and resources.

In November of last year, Guizhou rolled out a management scheme for computing power vouchers, extending policy incentives to domestically developed computing adaptation services and model training services. By the end of June, 333 vouchers had been issued, driving computing power transactions of more than 14 billion yuan and supporting the province's transition from data storage to computing power supply.

Creating new value

By the end of July, 45 core data elements of Wanfenglin Tourism Group in Xingyi, Guizhou, were registered and certified on the Guiyang Big Data Exchange and the Guizhou Data Intellectual Property Registration Platform.

"Dual registration is like giving data an 'ID card' and a 'letter of credit,' turning data into an asset, so that companies no longer need to rely on traditional collateral for financing," said Chen Wei, head of the Guiyang Big Data Exchange.

To unlock new value of data, Guizhou is accelerating the exploration of market-oriented approaches, taking the lead in areas such as data ownership confirmation, trading methods, market pricing, and profit models.

The Guiyang Big Data Exchange has completed a total of 5,122 transactions, hosted 1,011 data vendors, and listed 2,677 products.

As one of the first pilot regions in the country for the development and use of public data resources, Guizhou has ramped up efforts to open up public data. It has registered 104 data resources in fields such as meteorology, and launched 19 data products, including financial risk control.

Robotic arms and automated vehicles now crisscross the factory floor at a Guizhou-based tire manufacturer. In just 25 seconds, a tire bead rolls off the production line. "Smart production has cut quality issues by 57 percent and reduced inventory by 34 percent," said Han Hongchuan, a representative of the company.

In sectors such as manufacturing, tourism, and agriculture, Guizhou is taking targeted initiatives to tackle challenges, accelerating the development of an "AI+industry" ecosystem. The province aims to create more than 500 large-model application scenarios by 2027, initially building an artificial intelligence industrial ecosystem with distinctive Guizhou characteristics.

"Keeping firmly in mind the General Secretary's earnest instructions, Guizhou will steadfastly pursue the goals and tasks of digital economy development, clearly recognize the new situations and challenges it faces, plan strategically while acting pragmatically, and advance step by step to ensure annual breakthroughs in digital economy development and significant progress over the next three years," said Xu Lin, secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee.

SOURCE Global Times