GUIYANG, China, May 1, 2025 — The Communist Party of China Guizhou Gui’an New Area reports that Guizhou province in Southwest China is becoming a key national computing network center. Evidence suggests the “east data, west computing” initiative is driving technological advancements and reshaping production. Guizhou is transitioning from a follower to a leader in computing, offering a model for other western China provinces.
Since being named a national computing power hub in May 2021, Guizhou has significantly increased its computing capabilities. By the end of 2024, its total computing power had doubled, exceeding 57 EFLOPS (57 quintillion floating-point operations per second), with intelligent computing representing over 90 percent. This transformation positions Guizhou as a leading intelligent computing province in China.
Featuring clustered intelligent computing centers, such as the Huawei Ascend Computing Center, Guizhou has evolved from a “data storage warehouse” to a “computing engine.”
With a substantial number of data centers, Guizhou is well-positioned to establish an industry chain focused on computing power and data.
Guizhou has implemented 26 incentive policies to support its development as a national computing hub. These incentives are designed to attract businesses from provinces like Guangdong and Sichuan, as well as Beijing, to establish computing-related ventures in the province. Plans are in place to continuously expand computing capacity based on the clustered data centers in Gui’an, while also pooling resources and computing power.
By the close of 2024, Guizhou provided 23 percent of China’s total computing power and completed computing transactions valued at 11.35 billion yuan ($1.56 billion). The province is actively developing diverse application scenarios and fostering clustered data centers, intelligent terminals, and data applications, with the goal of achieving a scale of 100 billion yuan for each.
Innovation has become the primary driver of growth, replacing resources. Application scenarios have spurred demand and services. Recently, Guizhou’s computing power has become popular among film-making teams in eastern regions. The Gui’an Supercomputing Center’s main operator has assisted in rendering over 50 films, including The Wandering Earth, Deep Sea, and The Three-Body Problem. Notably, over 40 percent of the special effects shots in the popular animated film Ne Zha 2 were rendered using computing power from Guizhou.
However, Guizhou still faces challenges, including insufficient endogenous technological progress, a shortage of high-end talent, and limited regional coordination. To address these issues, Guizhou is actively cultivating local innovative teams through initiatives like “scientist workstations” and “university-enterprise joint laboratories.” The Gui’an Supercomputing Center, for instance, supports research computing for universities and research institutes in Guizhou in fields such as biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and industrial simulation.
The province’s financial authorities encourage financial institutions to improve collaboration between the government, finance sector, and enterprises, helping tech businesses secure funding and promote innovation. As of last September, the province had 11 bank branches specializing in sci-tech financing, with outstanding loans to technology-based enterprises totaling 99.84 billion yuan, an increase of 2.32 billion yuan compared to early 2024. Specifically, loans to high-tech enterprises reached 83.38 billion yuan, up 29.82 percent from the beginning of 2024.
If Guizhou succeeds in building China’s largest computing clusters by the end of 2025 as planned, it is set to become a major force in the global digital economy and better support the country’s modernization.
SOURCE Communist Party of China Guizhou Gui’an New Area
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