Photo taken on Oct. 3, 2020 shows the night view of Canton Tower in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)
BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- The city of Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong Province saw its service trade stood at 50 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, up 34 percent year on year, according to reports by Chinanews.com on Thursday.
Statistics from the Guangzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau showed that in 2021, the scale of Guangzhou's characteristic service trade continued growing, with the digital service trade volume reaching 23.584 billion U.S. dollars, up 42.8 percent year on year, covering more than 200 countries and regions around the world. At the same time, the city's cultural service export increased 1.5 times year on year.
Guangzhou was awarded 5 national characteristic service export bases in 2021. Among them, Tianhe District of Guangzhou was one of the first batch of national digital service export bases and national cultural export bases, Panyu District was among in the second batch of national cultural export bases, and Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was among the first batch of National Traditional Chinese medicine service export bases.
Now, Guangzhou is to apply for the national digital trade demonstration zone and the national service trade innovation and development demonstration zone. This year, more special policies will be released to support the development of digital trade and greater supports will be launched for the development of cultural industry, traditional Chinese medicine, intellectual property rights, human resources and other professional service trades.
(Edited by Gao Jingyan with Xinhua Silk Road, gaojingyan@xinhua.org)
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