By Wu Siya

 

BEIJING, Sept. 13 (China Economic Net)- On September 12, taking the opportunity of the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), the Guizhou Economic and Trade Exchange Conference was held in Beijing.

 

 

 

With the theme of “A Taste of Delicacy and Baijiu, A Promotion for Win-win Cooperation”, more than 120 honored guests, including representatives from embassies and consulates in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, leaders from the Service Trade Department of China’s Ministry of Commerce, representatives from various departments of Guizhou Province, cities (prefectures), as well as domestic and foreign enterprises and business associations, attend it.

 

 

“We are making every effort to create a first-class international business environment so as to global entrepreneurs could display their talents in Guizhou.” Cai Chaolin, Vice Governor of the People's Government of Guizhou Province, welcomed domestic and foreign companies to settle in Guizhou in his keynote speech.

 

In recent years, Guizhou Province has adhered to all-round and high-level opening up to the outside world, relying on its advantages in data, tourism, health and other industries to vigorously develop service trade. By now, there are nearly 600 service trade-related enterprises in the province, with service trade relations have been established with more than 110 countries and regions.

 

“In the first place, Guizhou looks forward to deepening cooperation in big data and information technology services on a global scale, exploring new models of cross-border data flows and transactions, and also welcomes domestic and foreign companies to use Guizhou data center resources to develop cloud computing, large model development, artificial intelligence research and development,” Cai introduced.

 

“Secondly, we hope to deepen cultural and tourism cooperation, jointly explore domestic and foreign tourism markets, to share Guizhou’s development opportunities to build a world-class tourist destination. At last, relying on platforms such as the ASEAN Education Exchange Week, Guizhou is willing to fully expand cooperation in the academic and educational fields and jointly develop its business services industry, including but not limited to exhibitions, service outsourcing, logistics and supply chain.”

 

Featured with data, Guizhou insists on using big data to empower the innovative development of service trade. It has 48 data centers under construction and in operation, making it one of the regions with the richest domestic intelligent computing resources and the strongest capabilities. The growth rate of the digital economy has led the country for eight consecutive years. A large number of leading giants such as Huawei Cloud and Apple have been able to establish themselves in Guizhou and serve the globe.

 

Another guest, Huo Tao, Chairman of Guizhou Baishan Cloud Technology Co., Ltd., further emphasized the achievements of big data as Guizhou’s key industrial advantage worldwide. “Everybody knows the domestic 3A game masterpiece Black Myth Wukong, which has hit the world recently. Half of the traffic of this game in China is provided by us. In addition, we have established local cloud platforms in Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia. At present, there are 50 countries in the world with our fringe nodes, with more than 2 billion overseas netizens use our services, and our overseas revenue in 2023 has exceeded US 100 million. Baishan Cloud is longing for more global partners seeing our Guizhou big data companies.”

 

 

While enjoying wonderful performances of Guizhou folk songs and dances, the guests tasted local famous dishes, snacks and liquor to experienced the beauty of Guizhou in all aspects.