During the third three quarters of the year, the total GDP of Guiyang was 310.24 billion yuan ($48.49 billion), topping all the cities and prefectures in Southwest China's Guizhou province, according to the latest data released by the Guizhou Bureau of Statistics.
The National Development and Reform Commission recently promoted 13 particularly successful cases where rural residents were helped to adapt to urban life and find jobs in cities – as well as cases concerning improvements to urban construction and governance levels, and the accelerated integration of urban-rural development.
New plans are for Southwest China's Guizhou province to extend it supply-side structural reform and innovation of systems and institutional mechanisms – making the services industry a booster to overall economic growth.
During the first half of the year, the development zones in Southwest China's Guizhou province reportedly saw an overall increase in the output value of industries above a designated size and the number of industrial enterprises above a designated size.
In the first half of this year, Southwest China's Guizhou province focused on developing its digital economy and realized the high-quality development of its big data industry.
During the first half of this year, Southwest China's Guizhou province saw growth in 10 major industries, with total output reaching 741.17 billion yuan ($114.43 billion), an increase of 19 percent year-on-year.
Since the beginning of this year, Southwest China's Guizhou province has focused on promoting new-type industrialization and achieved steady and high-quality industrial economic development.