With advantages in big data development, Southwest China's Guizhou province has been using digital technologies to help the real economy transform and upgrade.
Southwest China's Guizhou province boasts an abundance of forest resources with a 62.12 percent forest coverage rate and 162 million mu (10.8 million hectares) of forest, including 34 million mu suitable for developing a forestry derived economy.
The growth rate of the digital economy in Southwest China's Guizhou province reached 20.6 percent in 2021, which is 4.4 percentage points higher than the national average and ranks first in China for the seventh year, according to the Big Data Development Administration of Guizhou Province.
Guizhou Lida Special Aquaculture Co in Pingtang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, recently exported 14 metric tons of artificially bred Siberian sturgeons to Vietnam.
Though it is a small county in Guizhou, Cengong is a major origin for lighters used across the globe, with billions of such products being manufactured annually and shipped to more than 100 countries and regions, including the United States, Russia and those in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, meeting 5 percent of current global demand.
According to a document recently issued by the State Council, Southwest China's Guizhou province will receive national support for its development of the West China Development Program, including the construction as an inland open economy pilot area.
A train bound for Moscow carrying engines and LCD screens on Jan 7 departed Dulaying Railway Station in Guiyang – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – marking the latter city's first direct China-Europe freight train sent out in 2022.