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Guiyang National High-tech Industrial Development Zone (Guiyang HIDZ) , approved by the State Council in 1992, is the first national-level high-tech industrial zone in Southwest China's Guizhou province. This talent-focused pilot area serves as a major hub for the development of the big data industry.
The zone administers an area of 31.54 square kilometers, including Jinyang, Shawen and Xiuwen industrial parks. It has to date secured more than 30 national-level pilot and demonstration titles, such as a National New-type Industrialization Demonstration Base.
In 2024, it ranked 36th in a comprehensive evaluation of 178 national high-tech zones, rising one place from the previous year.
In recent years, Guiyang HIDZ has stayed firmly aligned with the guiding principle of "developing high technology, achieving industrialization, and accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces".
Focusing on three key priorities – industry, technology and talent – the zone has cultivated and expanded its "two leading, one distinctive, and one software" industrial sectors, and has begun to form three major industrial ecosystems centered on Liyang, Zhenhua, and Linquan.
The zone is now home to 61 industrial enterprises above designated size, including 47 high-tech firms. R&D intensity among industrial enterprises above designated size stands at 5.2 percent. Eight companies have been listed on stock exchanges.
By implementing an innovation-driven development strategy, the zone has consistently promoted the integrated development of technological and industrial innovation.
Guiyang HIDZ-based Guizhou Science City has expanded to 20.64 sq km, with joint postgraduate training bases established with Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. New R&D institutions have also been set up in collaboration with leading universities such as Southern University of Science and Technology and Central South University.
At present, the zone is home to 147 R&D institutions and 314 high-tech enterprises at the provincial-level or above, the most in the province. It has also nurtured a total of 11 national-level "Little Giant" technologically-advanced enterprises, as well as 97 technologically-advanced enterprises at the provincial level.
The total talent pool has reached 65,000, including 5,867 high-level professionals. Plans are in place to develop five talent towns, while 2,327 talent housing units and 296 talent apartments have been completed, with supporting facilities in the zone continuing to improve.
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