Gui'an plays leading role in China's computing power deployment with cost-efficient, stable electricity supply

Gui'an New Area, China's first comprehensive pilot zone for big data in southwestern province of Guizhou, has now turned into one of China's primary suppliers of computing power with its lower electricity cost and sustained supply.

It now has 27 large data centers. Many companies here just transformed their business a few months ago to catch the mania of AI agent. One of them is ChinaDataPay.com, a firm used to provide data products but now offers token services.

In early January, the company's daily token calls were less than 3 billion, but in April this figure has surged to nearly 12 billion. Meanwhile, the number of orders has increased from fewer than 70,000 to more than 280,000.

"We moved from Shanghai to Gui'an, because we can fully enjoy the benefits brought by Gui'an's cluster of data centers. For now, we need a large amount of computing power to produce tokens. Meanwhile, the cost-effectiveness of computing power in Gui'an leads the pack nationwide. As a result, the tokens we produce are highly competitive in the overall market," said Tang Hanlin, president of ChinaDataPay.com.

Within Gui'an's data center cluster, 21 large data centers are now under construction. After being put into operation, they will be able to train 100 large-scale models simultaneously, each with a parameter size of 100 billion, on a daily basis.

"Now, this part of land where I'm pointing at is the site for the fourth phase of our intelligent computing center. It is in high demand as most part of it has already been taken," said Li Jinhui, senior intelligent computing engineer of China Mobile Guizhou Branch.

At the dispatch center of China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Branch, a special digital map shows over 50 clean energy power plant distributed within a 200-kilometer radius around Gui'an data center cluster. They have been sending power to these data centers constantly.

Electricity consumption of different areas were also shown on the screen. In general, electricity consumption curves show clear peaks and troughs following residential and industrial usage -- high during the day and low at night. Only in Gui'an New Area, the curve is almost a straight line.

"We coordinate and optimize dispatching of multiple energy sources, including hydropower, thermal power, wind power, solar power and energy storage. With such measures, we are able to make long-term arrangement to cope with the fluctuation of electricity consumption," said Huang Xiaoxu, general manager of China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Branch's system operations department.

Gui'an plays leading role in China's computing power deployment with cost-efficient, stable electricity supply

China's consumer goods industry got off to a good start in 2026, with main indicators registering steady growth in the first two months, according to the data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The value added of enterprises above the designated size -- whose annual main business income reaches 20 million yuan (about 2.93 million U.S. dollars) or more -- in this sector increased by 4.8 percent year on year in January and February, accounting for 29.2 percent of the total value added, 3.1 percentage points higher than that of last year. Among the 14 major industry categories, 10 achieved positive growth.

In the two months, these enterprises achieved a business revenue of approximately 5.1 trillion yuan, up 4.4 percent year on year, while the total retail sales of consumer goods exceeded 8.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.8 percent.

"The first two months were in the traditional peak consumption season, driving the growth of orders and helping to unleash production capacity in the consumer goods industry. Some emerging consumption patterns, such as experience consumption and trendy toy consumption, grew rapidly, and the supply market showed a diversified growth trend," said Dai Xiaoxia, deputy director of the Institute of Consumer Goods Industry Research of China Center for Information Industry Development.

In terms of foreign trade, exporters above the designated size delivered consumer goods worth around 592.54 billion yuan, up 2.2 percent year on year, with the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, the papermaking and paper products industry registering relatively rapid growth.

China will increase the supply of high-quality products in the consumer goods industry, steadily promoting the intelligent, green and integrated development of the sector.

China's consumer goods industry posts steady growth in first 2 months