Published on: 2026-09-01
Source: People’s Republic of China — Translation
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Guiyang, September 1 /Xinhua/ — Guizhou Province, which has traditionally been considered one of the less economically developed provinces in southwest China, is today demonstrating unexpectedly rapid growth in the digital intelligence industry: it is home to more than 60,000 specialized enterprises, over 120 partners of the Huawei Cloud ecosystem are concentrated here, and new business formats such as data labeling and embodied artificial intelligence are rapidly developing. These unique achievements of the province were announced at the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2026, recently held in Guiyang city, the administrative center of Guizhou Province.
Guizhou is China’s first national comprehensive big data experimental zone, an innovative district for digital economy development, a key hub of the national integrated computing power network, and a national comprehensive testing zone for data elements. In recent years, this province has fully leveraged its comparative advantages, striving to create new competitive advantages in computing power, consistently launching new data-related products on the market, and actively developing new application scenarios for them.
Computing power is a key productive force in the digital economy. As early as 2014, Guizhou Province was one of the first to begin creating data centers (DCs) and entered the top regions worldwide in terms of the number of ultra-large DCs. To date, 50 key data centers are being built and operated in the province, 15 of which have obtained the status of national “green” data centers. More than 90 percent of the region’s resources are provided to users outside Guizhou Province.
“The share of intelligent computing, the level of localization, and regional concentration exceed 90 percent here,” said Zhu Zongyao, head of the provincial big data development authority, adding that Guizhou, despite not having advantages in terms of population size, land area, and economic volume, nevertheless provides about one-eighth of the country’s total computing power.
Data is compared to fuel for the digital economy and is also called “the oil of the new era.” However, it has no value without circulation. Data annotation specialists, who act as “teachers” for AI, are a key link that ensures the data is suitable for practical use. This year, Guizhou plans to increase the number of data annotation specialists to more than 20,000 people.
At local enterprises, for example, at the company Linghong Intelligent Technology, hundreds of young people sit at computers performing data annotation tasks in areas such as intelligent driving and e-commerce platforms. The company’s CEO, Zheng Kewei, said that all orders come from other provinces, and more than 60 percent of the orders are from manufacturers of new energy vehicles.
This year, China has set the task for the first time of creating new forms of an intelligent economy. In response to new development trends, Guizhou does not seek to join the general race in areas such as chip development and basic large language models, but, relying on its unique advantages, it focuses efforts on developing four key industries, including computing power, data processing, artificial intelligence, and electronic information, so that artificial intelligence yields increasingly substantial results in this mountainous province.
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