Guiyang National High-tech Industrial Development Zone (Guiyang HIDZ) in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, ranked first in the evaluation of investment promotion among all county-level cities, counties, and development zones in the city's jurisdiction in 2022, with a comprehensive score of 104.76.
The evaluation included 19 indicators, including newly-increased funds for key industrial projects, industrial proportion of newly-increased funds for key industrial projects, and the number of new excellent enterprises.
Guiyang HIDZ has ranked first in the assessment in Guiyang for three consecutive years.
Guiyang HIDZ's focus on investment promotion, pragmatic investment promotion measures and building a healthy business environment has contributed to its success.
In recent years, Guiyang HIDZ has been gradually building an industrial system and layout with electronic information manufacturing and advanced equipment manufacturing as the leading industries and the new energy automobile industry as the characteristic industry.
In 2022, the number of introduced projects focusing on electronic information manufacturing, advanced equipment manufacturing and new energy automobile industries accounted for 83.3 percent of Guiyang HIDZ's total industrial projects that year.
Meanwhile, Guiyang HIDZ introduced 50 excellent enterprises last year, including 42 high-tech enterprises recognized as "specialized, refined, featured and innovative".
Moreover, Guiyang HIDZ achieved a total industrial output value of 38 billion yuan ($5.47 billion), of which the industrial output value of Guiyang HIDZ's electronic information manufacturing, advanced equipment manufacturing and new energy automobile industries totaled 24.76 billion yuan, accounting for 86 percent of the zone's total industrial output value above a designated size and an increase of 5.8 percentage points compared with that in 2021.