People visit a display center of the National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Area in southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 22, 2019. In Guizhou Province, which hosts China's first state-level big data pilot zone, the integration of big data with sectors such as real economy, social management, civil service and rural revitalization has brought significant changes to people's life. According to statistics, Guizhou has more than 9,500 big data enterprises and many of them are active players on the global business stage. A 2019 whitepaper published by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology indicates that Guizhou is taking advantage of big data in the course of its development, as both the growth of the province's digital economy and the growth of its employment in digital economy have ranked first in China. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
