Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone: Change with Big Data

Updated: July 25, 2019 Source: Belt and Road Portal
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If the year of 2013 marks the foundation year for the development of big data in Guizhou, it is in the year of 2015, when the China International Big Data Industry Expo (Big Data Expo) was launched, that the big data industry in Guizhou officially moved from "increasing its pulling power" to "setting down roots."

"Over the past five years, the Big Data Expo has enhanced the overall image of Guiyang and built a bridge for the outside world to understand the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone. Through big data, the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone has been identified by a distinctive 'big data' label. Also, big data has allowed the zone with an area of 30 square kilometers only to enter the phase of rapid development, making it be among the top 40 high-tech industrial development zones across the country," said the relevant person in charge of Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone.

By virtue of big data, Guiyang, a western capital city that once "felt invisible" in the country, now tops the provincial capital cities in China for 5 years in a row. Behind this, the contribution of new drivers represented by big data to economic growth reached 21%, allowing Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone to be advanced to the list of first-class high-tech industrial development zones in the country.

Although the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone was approved as a national high-tech industrial development zone as early as 1992, it has been at a lower level among the list of the long-established "national teams" for donkey's years.

A favorable turn was taken in 2013 when Guizhou began to ramp up its effort to develop big data. On September 8, 2013, the Zhongguancun Science Park in Guiyang was officially inaugurated, allowing Guiyang to stand at the new starting point of implementing the innovation-driven strategy, advancing rapid economic and social development, and achieving post-transcendence objective. At the same time, the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone has risen rapidly and has embarked on a path to high-quality development led by big data.

The Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone has changed dramatically thanks to big data. Data shows that in 2018, the main business income of big data enterprises in the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone accumulated 24.18 billion yuan beyond the target set by Guiyang City. Meanwhile, in 2018, a multitude of big data brands and enterprises such as CASICloud-tech, Longmaster Information, FlexLab Inc., Food Safety Cloud, Zhuminsheng, East Century, Golden Stand and Lichuang were fostered in the zone, and 15 application scenarios including Gogpay, an "Internet+" service platform for the benefit of people, and CASICloud-tech's "regional industrial cloud innovation service platform application and integration solution" were launched. Among them, eight projects including CASICloud-tech's "regional industrial cloud innovation service platform application and integration solution" have been selected as national demonstration pilots.

At the Big Data Expo this year, the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone signed a total of 11 projects, with a contracted amount of 3.29 billion yuan, involving intelligent manufacturing, cloud platforms, electronic information manufacturing and other domains. As of May 28, the zone has sent 26 groups with the mission of investment attraction to connect and negotiate with 335 companies, welcomed more than 600 guests from 112 companies for visit and investigation, and obtained 39 investment intentions. In terms of talent recruitment, the zone has successfully introduced 110 high-level talents, including 33 doctors, 62 masters and 15 professionals of other kinds, with the number of talents to be recruited that is 10% higher than that of 2018," said the relevant person in charge of the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone.

In addition, the convening of the Expo has also enabled the outside world to learn more about the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone. "The Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone is developing so fast and impressively," said Pierre Deli, General Manager of Safran Aircraft Engine (Guiyang) Co., Ltd.: "Today's Guiyang is famous for its rapid development and friendly environment. It is a pleasure to see big data attracting an increasing number of companies, thus making Guiyang more and more famous around the world."

Bart Karepov Bavel, CEO of Napoleon, an IT company based in Russia, also said: "I am very excited to be in China for the first time to participate in such an impressive Big Data Expo. On the 'Night of Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone," I talked with experts and entrepreneurs from various countries in a pleasant atmosphere, and hope to come to the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone for further cooperation in our next plan."

"Creating something out of nothing, being thriving, putting down roots and bearing fruit" - these represent the four major processes of the development of big data in Guizhou. According to the current identical views in the industry, the big data industry has officially put down roots in Guizhou, and even it has partly come to the phase of bearing fruit.

Last August, a special work session on the "Big Data Expo Avenue" was held in Guiyang, proposing to start the planning and construction of the Big Data Expo Avenue in accordance with the internationally first-class and China's leading standards, so as to build the "Big Data Expo Avenue" into the core area of "China's Big Data Valley" and a never-ending big data expo. In the view of Xie Xiaoyao, however, the key to realizing the tagline lies in how the industry develops. According to Xie, in the previous first five years, Guizhou was laying a foundation, while the key to the next five years (to determine its continuity) is to combine big data with the real economy in Guizhou, together with intelligent manufacturing which will be considered as the overall direction.

The Implementation Plan for Innovation and Development of the Service Industry in Guizhou Province (2018-2025) proposed that as the country's first big data comprehensive pilot zone, Guizhou will basically build itself into an important data processing and analytics industry base in the southern part of China and an important national data exchange trading center by 2020; and, the output value of big data and adjacent industries will surpass one trillion yuan by 2025.

In light of the reality, the Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone has developed the Plan for Guiyang National High-tech Industrial Development Zone to Implement the "Integration of Ten Thousand Enterprises" Campaign to Promote the Deep Integration and Development of Big Data and the Real Economy, as well as the supporting Work Plan for the Deep Integration and Development of Big Data and Industry and Services in Guiyang National High-tech Industrial Development Zone, in a bid to fully facilitate the deep integration of big data and the real economy.

According to the relevant person in charge of Guiyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone, the zone will focus on advancing "four enhancements" and solidifying "four integrations" in 2019. With "one product and one industry leading to prosperity of all businesses" with the vision and "market-led, trade first, promotion of industry through, integration of industry and trade" as the path to follow, it will highlight and do a good job in the high-end manufacturing industry and the high-end commerce and trade industry, and fuel the transformation of the real economy into digital, network-based and intelligent economy with big data applications. The zone will also give a big boost to the integration of big data and the real economy, push advanced manufacturing to embrace all processes, all factors and full coverage and be digital, network-enabled and intelligent, and facilitate quality change, efficiency change and dynamic change. Increased efforts will be made to build a modern industrial cluster with distinctive characteristics and strong competitiveness, and to catalyze the high-quality development and upgrading of the zone. Endeavor will also be made to build a national independent innovation demonstration zone led by big data, and to build a demonstration zone and a leading zone that features high-level openness and high-quality development in line with high standards in Guiyang.

Editor: 曹家宁