Data shows that in the first half of this year, the Guiyang Big Data Sci-tech City in Southwest China's Guizhou province achieved a total industrial output value of 2.72 billion yuan ($378 million), a year-on-year increase of 87 percent.

The industrial output value above designated size reached 494 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 77 percent, while the revenue of profit-making service industries amounted to 24.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.4 percent. In addition, the fixed-asset investment amounted to 5.42 billion yuan during the first half of this year.

The sci-tech city signed 34 projects into effect, with a total investment of 878.5 million yuan. Twenty-one of these projects were in the software and information service industry, accounting for 61.76 percent of the total, while 27 were registered and implemented, accounting for 79.41 percent of the total. The investment entities included digital economy integration industries such as data center operation and maintenance providers, trade circulation platforms, and intelligent manufacturing.

During the same period, the Guiyang Big Data Sci-Tech City attracted 246 new enterprises, including 135 big data companies, accounting for 54.88 percent of the total, with a registered capital of 105.6 billion yuan.