China's poorest province: Guizhou is on the rapid rise

[TaiShang]

Guizhou the front runner of China's big data industry
Xinhua, May 29, 2018

Guizhou Province, one of the least developed regions in China, has become a leading hub for China's big data industry, gathering Tencent and other global tech giants as the country's digital economy prospers.

During the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2018 held in the provincial capital of Guiyang from Saturday to Tuesday, 199 projects were signed, attracting total investment volume of 35.28 billion yuan (5.5 billion U.S. dollars), according to the organizing committee.

As China's first big data pilot zone, the mountainous province is a top choice for big data facilities due to its moderate climate, sufficient power supply and good network infrastructure. It has attracted heavyweight players, including Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba and Foxconn, to establish cloud computing and big data centers as well as regional headquarters.

Tencent's Qixing data center in Guizhou started trial operation on Monday. With about 50,000 servers stored inside karst caves tucked away in mountains in Gui'an New District, the center is designed as a green, efficient backup for disaster recovery.

The center, covering an area of about 513,000 square meters, will store the company's most important data in the future, according to Tencent CEO Pony Ma.

E-commerce giant Alibaba announced Monday that Guiyang would become the technical support center and Internet Content Provider filing center for Alibaba Cloud, the company's cloud service.

Alibaba Cloud will also provide cloud storage service for the research data of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, in Guizhou Province.

So far, the number of big data enterprises in Guizhou has grown to 8,548 from less than 1,000 in 2013, with the size of big data industry exceeding 110 billion yuan.

Guizhou's digital economy expanded by 37.2 percent in 2017, the fastest in the country, official data showed. The added value of the digital economy will account for 30 percent of Guizhou's GDP by 2020, according to a provincial government plan.

More efforts have been made to further activate the value of data. The Global Big Data Exchange in Guiyang, the first of its kind in the country, has attracted over 2,000 members since its opening three years ago, with tradable data capacity exceeding 150 petabytes.

Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology, said that Guizhou had set out on an innovative route by developing big data, "which offers the 'Guizhou model' for digital economic growth."

Driven by the big data boom, Guiyang, also known as China's "big data valley," saw its GDP growth rate ranking first among provincial capitals for the fourth consecutive year in 2017, and it is becoming an important destination for tech talent.

Guiyang has enjoyed a net inflow of university graduates from all over the country since 2015. Some 142,000 professionals in the big data industry have moved there .

As an environment-friendly industry, life-changing big data is driving growth and upgrading in both traditional and emerging sectors in Guizhou, with the rapid growth of data services, cloud computing, intelligent manufacturing and e-commerce.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2018-05/29/content_51530606.htm

 

[AndrewJin]

Guizhou the front runner of China's big data industry
Xinhua, May 29, 2018

Guizhou Province, one of the least developed regions in China, has become a leading hub for China's big data industry, gathering Tencent and other global tech giants as the country's digital economy prospers.

During the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2018 held in the provincial capital of Guiyang from Saturday to Tuesday, 199 projects were signed, attracting total investment volume of 35.28 billion yuan (5.5 billion U.S. dollars), according to the organizing committee.

As China's first big data pilot zone, the mountainous province is a top choice for big data facilities due to its moderate climate, sufficient power supply and good network infrastructure. It has attracted heavyweight players, including Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba and Foxconn, to establish cloud computing and big data centers as well as regional headquarters.

Tencent's Qixing data center in Guizhou started trial operation on Monday. With about 50,000 servers stored inside karst caves tucked away in mountains in Gui'an New District, the center is designed as a green, efficient backup for disaster recovery.

The center, covering an area of about 513,000 square meters, will store the company's most important data in the future, according to Tencent CEO Pony Ma.

E-commerce giant Alibaba announced Monday that Guiyang would become the technical support center and Internet Content Provider filing center for Alibaba Cloud, the company's cloud service.

Alibaba Cloud will also provide cloud storage service for the research data of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, in Guizhou Province.

So far, the number of big data enterprises in Guizhou has grown to 8,548 from less than 1,000 in 2013, with the size of big data industry exceeding 110 billion yuan.

Guizhou's digital economy expanded by 37.2 percent in 2017, the fastest in the country, official data showed. The added value of the digital economy will account for 30 percent of Guizhou's GDP by 2020, according to a provincial government plan.

More efforts have been made to further activate the value of data. The Global Big Data Exchange in Guiyang, the first of its kind in the country, has attracted over 2,000 members since its opening three years ago, with tradable data capacity exceeding 150 petabytes.

Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology, said that Guizhou had set out on an innovative route by developing big data, "which offers the 'Guizhou model' for digital economic growth."

Driven by the big data boom, Guiyang, also known as China's "big data valley," saw its GDP growth rate ranking first among provincial capitals for the fourth consecutive year in 2017, and it is becoming an important destination for tech talent.

Guiyang has enjoyed a net inflow of university graduates from all over the country since 2015. Some 142,000 professionals in the big data industry have moved there .

As an environment-friendly industry, life-changing big data is driving growth and upgrading in both traditional and emerging sectors in Guizhou, with the rapid growth of data services, cloud computing, intelligent manufacturing and e-commerce.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2018-05/29/content_51530606.htm

Such a surprise, China's poorest province is actually leading in many future technologies.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Gui Yang Street corner

 

[JSCh]

Guizhou to invest heavily in expressway construction
Source: Xinhua| 2018-07-01 09:40:09|Editor: ZD


GUIYANG, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province will invest more than 500 billion yuan (75.6 billion U.S. dollars) in constructing expressways in the next five years.

The province has vowed to make its total length of expressways reach 10,000 kilometers by 2022, according to a Guizhou action plan for expressway construction, released by the provincial department of transportation.

The new expressways will cover all scenic spots, main cities, train stations, and airports in the province, and connect Guizhou with neighboring city clusters and economic hubs.

Transportation in the mountainous province was previously backward due to its rugged terrain. Guizhou has made efforts to improve its transportation system in recent years. All counties in the province were connected by expressway as of 2015, and asphalt roads had been built for all villages by 2017.

 

[JSCh]

Big data, blockchain applied to alleviation efforts in rural Guizhou
By Ma Jingjing in Panzhou Source:Global Times Published: 2018/7/1 17:28:39

Meng Tingzhuang, a customer manager of the Panzhou branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, inspects polygonatum planted by farmers in Panzhou, Southwest China's Guizhou Province on Tuesday. Photo: Ma Jingjing/GT


In April 2017, the government of Southwest China's Guizhou Province vowed to fully implement three key strategies: Great Poverty Alleviation, Big Data and Large Ecology. What positive results have been attained in the province thanks to its poverty alleviation and hi-tech efforts? Villagers told the Global Times how industrial poverty reduction, including tourism and cattle-raising, is helping them shake off poverty. Meanwhile, the Agricultural Bank of China is providing preferential loans for the relief projects and has created a white list based on big data to improve efficiency and loan coverage in rural areas.


Panzhou, a county in Southwest China's Guizhou Province, is among China's top 100 counties in terms of social and economic development, but it is also considered a national-level poverty-stricken county. On highways and streets in Panzhou, eye-catching slogans calling for poverty alleviation can be frequently seen.

What significant changes have been made to help impoverished families in the region? In a small mountain village called Daditou, just a one-hour drive away from downtown Panzhou, villagers are eager to tell their stories.

At a specialized farming cooperative on a remote mountain as high as 1,600 meters, several workers are busy processing cow dung for biogas digesters.

One of the oldest workers on the farm who is feeding cattle puts down the forage and speaks to the Global Times. Fifty-five-year-old Chen Gongjing, who started working at the cooperative in February this year, was born into a poor family.

"Before working here, I used to plant corn and do hard labor in the city. But as I'm old now and have a low literacy level, no company is willing to hire me anymore," Chen told the Global Times.

According to Chen, he can earn more than 40,000 yuan ($6,048) a year now, compared with a little more than 20,000 yuan before.

"I am paid 3,000 yuan per month. My cropland has been leased to the cooperative for more than 7,000 yuan a year," he said.

In fact, this cooperative is helping 34 families, including 17 extremely poor ones, to get out of poverty.

Xu Wenyong, head of the cooperative, told the Global Times that the community received a loan worth 3.4 million yuan in November 2017 - each family receiving 100,000 yuan - and bought 121 cattle in March.

"We plan to raise 1,000 cattle in the future, selling to other cities like Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province… We are also planting polugonatum - a kind of herbal medicine - walnut, pomegranate and peanut," Xu said.

Rural tourism

In Tuole, a village about 40 kilometers southwest of Panzhou, poverty alleviation work has been carried out by taking advantage of the area's unique natural resources - ginkgo.

There are more than 1,200 ancient ginkgoes in the village with an average age of above 300 years, and the most ancient is over 1,200 years old. Centered on ancient ginkgo, Panzhou Tuole Ginkgo Tourism Investment and Development Co began to develop a scenic spot in 2012.

The scenic spot opened to tourists in 2014 and hires around 100 workers, with 20 percent of them coming from families living under the national poverty line.

"Villagers used to make a living by selling ginkgo nut and laboring in cities, but with the opening of the scenic spot, some migrant workers have come back home and become engaged in the tourism sector," Duan Heng, manager of the company, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

Wang Guocui, a tourist guide who works in the scenic spot, told the Global Times on Tuesday that she has worked here for three years since she graduated from university.

Wang said that she and her husband both work in the scenic spot and can earn between 6,000 and 7,000 yuan per month, adding that her husband's side of the family used to be very poor.

The scenic spot welcomed over 300,000 visitors in 2017, and 10 percent of ticket receipts are given to villagers, which is calculated by how many ginkgoes they own, according to Duan.

"Many villagers wish to be engaged in rural tourism, but have no idea how to," Duan said, noting that the company is guiding villagers to offer accommodation and catering services to tourists, while purchasing ginkgo nut from villagers.

Adoption of big data

To help drive poverty alleviation in the local area, both projects received loans from the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC).

Wang Meng, an ABC staff member, told the Global Times that when he started to do poverty alleviation-related business in 2014, many poverty-stricken families were reluctant to or didn't dare get loans out of fear they wouldn't be able to repay them.

"But with the driving effect of the government's war on poverty, now most farmers wish to get loans and shake off poverty," Wang said.

But the approval and provision process of loans for farmers, especially in remote areas, needs improving. As such, advanced technologies, namely big data and blockchain, are now helping commercial banks overcome such obstacles.

"Traditionally, if farmers wanted to apply for loans, our customer managers had to go to villages to collect relevant information and then pass it on to different levels for approval," said Jiang Liping, general manager of the Rural Household Financing Department of the Guizhou Branch of ABC.

The adoption of big data brings convenience while providing wide coverage, Jiang told the Global Times on Thursday.

And ABC's "E Loan for Tobacco Growers" is pioneering in this area. Based on data about farmers' tobacco-planting areas and on revenue provided by tobacco companies, ABC created a white list of who the bank can provide loans to, which was followed by offline evaluations. After approval, farmers can receive their loans promptly, according to Jiang.

Since the technology was put into use at the beginning of 2017, 17,000 farmers in Guizhou have been put on the white list, with the bank already providing a credit facility at 410 million yuan, data from ABC showed.

Also, the bank is adopting blockchain to help farmers mortgage their contracted land use rights and housing property rights.

With this technology, information about these two rights areas can be shared by the government, the People's Bank of China, the department of housing and urban-rural development as well as the bank that handles the loans, Jiang said, noting this will save time when providing loans to farmers.

 

[Communist Indian]

Nice pictures.

I want to see Poorest regions of India such as East and South East develop like this.

As capitalism failed just like socialism in Major parts of India, lets hope Indias people will give one chance to Indias own Communist Nationalist party CPI.

 

[JSCh]

Developer to invest 50 billion yuan in Guizhou province
Strategic cooperation with Greenland Holdings will see rapid development in 'three clusters and three centers'
By ASIA TIMES STAFF JULY 9, 2018 5:42 AM (UTC+8)

Chinese real estate developer Greenland Holdings is intending to invest 50 billion yuan (US$7.53 billion) to help alleviate poverty in Zunyi city, in the province of Guizhou, The Paper reported.

The developer has signed a strategic cooperation with the municipal government located in southwest China, aiming to launch projects involving big infrastructure, finance, conference and exhibition, culture and tourism, as well as hotel.

The cooperation aims to promote the city to accelerate the construction of the “three clusters and three centers,” which refers to the leisure travel cluster, financial cluster, big data service cluster, as well as commercial logistics, convention and cultural centers.

In the Xinpu New District, the developer will also invest 16.7 billion yuan to build the Luhu International Cultural and Ecological Tourism Resort, which involves a boutique hotel cluster, international art and cultural exchange center, and an original ecological holiday experience center.



Developer to invest 50 billion yuan in Guizhou province | Asia Times

 

[JSCh]

Hyperloop TT will build a track in China
It's the first deal to be signed in China and could have massive ramifications for the industry.

Daniel Cooper, @danielwcooper
5h ago in Transportation

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, the crowdsourced enterprise that has lagged behind rivals in some respects, may have scored a crucial victory. The company has signed a deal to build a track in the Chinese province of Guizhou, home to the Guiyang Technological Development Zone.

The route itself will be located somewhere in Tongren, a prefecture in eastern Guizhou, and will cover an initial distance of 10 km (6.2 miles). There's no indication of if the line will connect two significant landmarks or areas, at least not at this early stage. At that short distance, it's not likely that the tube will be able to reach the speeds that Hyperloop promises, at least on paper.

As part of the deal, HTT will launch a Chinese entity -- standard practice, since foreign companies are rarely allowed to operate without some local connection. The crowdsourced enterprise will be responsible for designing the technology, providing the engineering expertise and designing "essential equipment." Which we assume is a euphemism for both the pods and maglev technology that HTT has licensed.

On Tongren's side, the city and its people will be in charge of certifying the tube, building a series of regulations and actually building the thing. Financing for the project will be split 50/50, with half of the cash coming from the city, and the rest sourced from HTT, and/or investors.

The Guiyang Economic and Technological Development Zone was created 18 years ago to lure tech companies to the region. That initiative has clearly been successful, since the provincial capital has attracted big names like Foxconn, Microsoft, Huawei, Tencent, Qualcomm and Alibaba.

Tongren is a significant distance away from Guiyang, at around 400km (248 miles), and has what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn says is a "unique topography."It's thought that the location was chosen to help refine various construction methods and develop a system that works in multiple terrains. Not to mention that it gives HTT a foothold in China, a country with deep pockets for infrastructure spending.

China, meanwhile, will get the benefit of being able to test out a new transportation system in relative peace. And if successful, this small tube could form the backbone of a longer network that shrinks journey times across the middle kingdom.

Update: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies clarified that it intends to run the route as a commercial venture, rather than for testing.


Hyperloop TT will build a track in China | engadget

 

[JSCh]

Guizhou seeks to become China's largest tea exporter by 2020
Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-28 11:28:06|Editor: Liangyu


GUIYANG, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province has set a target to become the country's largest tea exporter by 2020, exporting 50,000 tonnes annually.

Combining ecological advantages of high altitude, low latitude, less sunshine and pollution, Guizhou had the country's largest tea plantation area of 478,000 hectares at the end of 2017.

The provincial agricultural commission Monday said it will support local tea companies to expand exports to the overseas markets, including the United States, Europe, Japan, Republic of Korea, and the Middle East. Some exporters will get additional tax rebates.

Meanwhile, it will welcome domestic and overseas tea trading firms to set up processing bases or workshops in Guizhou to boost exports.

Finlays, a subsidiary of John Swire & Sons Ltd, has started construction on a tea processing plant in the county of Sinan in Guizhou with an annual processing capacity of more than 20,000 tonnes.

Local authorities will launch quality inspections and seek to ensure about 33,300 hectares of tea plantation area to meet European quality standards.

Guizhou plans to put into effect stricter standards for four well-known types of local tea leaves in November in a bid to guarantee the export quality. The standards require lower levels of pollutants and residual pesticides than the national standards.

In 2017, Guizhou's tea output stood at 327,000 tonnes with exports reaching 2,852.6 tonnes.

 

[JSCh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1036492344898404352

People's Daily,China‏ Verified account @PDChina
Magnificent! Known as the world’s “Bridge Museum,” southwest China’s Guizhou province is home to some of the world’s most impressive bridges, including truss-type combination arch bridges, large-span cable-stayed bridges, and large-span suspension bridges.

1:53 PM - 3 Sep 2018

 

[hiseen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1036492344898404352

People's Daily,China‏ Verified account @PDChina
Magnificent! Known as the world’s “Bridge Museum,” southwest China’s Guizhou province is home to some of the world’s most impressive bridges, including truss-type combination arch bridges, large-span cable-stayed bridges, and large-span suspension bridges.

1:53 PM - 3 Sep 2018

The world's 80% mega bridge list is in China. China's 80% mega bridge list is in Guizhou.

 

[JSCh]

Half of world's 100 highest bridges are here! China's Guizhou, world's museum of bridges
New China TV
Published on Oct 16, 2018

Situated in Southwest China, the province of Guizhou is home to 46 of the world's 100 highest bridges. Check out "the World Museum of Bridges"!

 

[AndrewJin]

Zhenyuan Ancient Town

 

[JSCh]

Moutai Takes Second-Biggest Stake in New Unit of Apple iCloud Provider
ZHANG YUSHUO
DATE: SAT, 11/03/2018 - 13:10 / SOURCE:YICAI

Moutai Takes Second-Biggest Stake in New Unit of Apple iCloud Provider​

(Yicai Global) Nov. 3 -- Kweichow Moutai Group, the renowned Chinese liquor company, has invested CNY450 million (USD65 million) in a newly-established arm of Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Development, which has supplied iCloud services to Apple in China since February.

Moutai’s shares [SHA:600519] rose 6.55 percent, closing at CNY599.90 yesterday on the news, arresting a slide of 31 per cent from their CNY799.19 record of June 12 and losing CNY314 billion in market value.

The new unit, Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (Group) was set up with registered capital of CNY1.7 billion (USD248 million) on Oct. 19, according to company information platform Qixin.Com. Moutai took 26.47 percent to become second-largest shareholder after the Guizhou State-Owned Supervision and Administration Commission under the State Council, which holds 38.24 percent.

The development marks a further step in the southwestern province’s bid to become China’s Big Data hub.

“Moutai has long been a symbol of Guizhou, while Big Data has now joined its ranks. Moutai’s embrace of the Big Data business is the integration of the old and the new,” Jing Yaping, deputy director of Guizhou provincial Big Data development authority said when evaluating the project.

Moutai Group has expanded its business scope, adding real estate development and leasing, internet, education and agriculture to its distillery business, public information shows.

 

[TaiShang]

Xi Jinping checks people's livelihood in Guiyang ahead of the Chinese New Year

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday visited Guiyang City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, in an inspection tour ahead of the Chinese New Year.

news.cgtn.com

Xiaonian Festival is often regarded as the last special day before the Chinese New Year. Falling on the 23rd or 24th day of the last month of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, it usually marks the countdown to the Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival.

This year, Xiaonian falls on Thursday. To ensure a stable and abundant market supply for the Chinese New Year, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a supermarket and a local community in Guiyang City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, to inspect their preparations ahead of the holiday.

Chinese people like buying necessities in bulk as the New Year approaches. The coming of Xiaonian rings the bell of a final push to the Chinese New Year, thus, a smooth and orderly operation of market supply is particularly important.

A visit to ordinary people

In the Heli fresh food supermarket, Xi checked the supply of food and other daily necessities. He also learned the price level there to make sure all the goods are affordable for ordinary people.

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with local residents in Jinyuan Community in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, February 4, 2021. /Xinhua

He then visited Jinyuan Community in Guanshanhu District to check the operation of community services and their influence on residents' daily lives.

After seeing residents creating paper-cuts for the festival, Xi joined them and extended his warm wishes by writing a traditional Spring Festival couplet.

Both paper-cutting and writing couplets are Chinese New Year customs. Paper-cutting works are used to express well wishes, and are often applied to windows as decorations. Spring Festival couplets are often written with Chinese calligraphy. Pasting on both sides of a door, it is believed that the sincere wishes and New Year greetings written on the couplets will bring good luck to the whole family.

It marked the second day of Xi's visit to Guizhou Province. On the previous day, he visited people from the Miao ethnic group in Qianxi County.

A nine-year tradition

The pre-Spring Festival visit is not a surprise. For nine consecutive years, Xi has made it a tradition to visit ordinary people, especially the disadvantaged groups, ahead of the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar.

In 2020, Xi visited Simola Wa Village in southwest China's Yunnan Province and joined a family of the Wa ethnic group in making rice cakes and beat a wooden drum three times as a local ritual to bless the coming year.

In 2019, Xi made an appearance in the hutong neighborhoods of central Beijing and dropped in on an express delivery station where he praised the hard work of deliverymen, saying they were "busy as bees" to bring convenience to people's lives.
Xi may visit a different place every year, but wherever he goes, his care for the livelihood of ordinary people never changes.

(Cover: Chinese President Xi Jinping visits a supermarket in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, February 4, 2021. /Xinhua)