Guizhou province is ramping up its efforts to become China's big data valley and a new innovation center with a plan to boost its digital economy that will see added value occupies 33 percent of total GDP by 2022, said the head of Guizhou's top economic planner.
The China International Big Data Industry Expo 2018 will focus on the deep integration of big data and the real economy - and set up a big data international cooperation mechanism for the Belt and Road Initiative to make a contribution to the development of the global big data industry.
Last year, after he completed a bachelor's degree in computer science in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region in the north of China, 22-year-old Song Jian made a decision that sent him in a different direction to his classmates. He headed south and landed a job in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.
In the 12,000-hectare Grass Sea natural reserve tucked away in Southwest China's Guizhou province, the entire area has been "digitalized" as a part of the "Grass Sea cloud."
