BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Driven by the construction of the China-ASEAN Information Harbor, the digital economy in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has maintained the booming trend, according to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics (GBS) and the Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics in Guangxi on Wednesday.
In the first eleven months of 2020, the revenues of Internet and related service industry saw a year-on-year increase of 18.7 percent, and that of software and information technology service industry up 75.8 percent, leasing industry up 56.8 percent, professional technical service industry up 43.2 percent, and technology promotion and application service industry up 19.5 percent.
Tang Xu, deputy director of the GBS, said that the digital economy has played a prominent role in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic, protection of residents' life and promotion of economic growth. New patterns such as online shopping and livestreaming e-commerce are developing in full swing. Demands for telework, remote consultation and online education are relatively strong.
In recent years, promoted by the construction of China-ASEAN Information Harbor, Guangxi has seized the opportunities for the development of digital economy, and cultivated digital industries such as big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Currently, Guangxi has a total of 12,000 enterprises related to the digital economy.
According to Tang, the investment in Guangxi's high-tech industry grew 12.4 percent on year in 2020, 8.2 percentage points higher than the overall investment growth of Guangxi.
A number of leading digital companies such as Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, Inspur and JD.com have settled down in Guangxi, driving the rapid development of manufacturing and information technology application innovation industry.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), led by the joint construction of the digital silk road and relying on the building of the China-ASEAN Information Harbor, Guangxi will carry out the big data strategy, promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy.
Meanwhile, Guangxi plans to develop electronic information industry, information technology application innovation industry, 5G and blockchain in a vigorous way.
It will strive to expand the geographic information, remote sensing and Beidou-related industries, create a batch of leading companies and industry clusters in digital economy, and actively participate in the formulation of standards in China-ASEAN digital field and the construction of ASEAN smart city network.
In 2020, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Guangxi totaled 2215.67 billion yuan, up 3.7 percent year on year, local authorities said. (Edited by Zhang Yuan with Xinhua Silk Road, zhangyuan11@xinhua.org)
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