Other parts of western China, including Sichuan, Guizhou and Shaanxi, are also embracing the digital economy.

Authorities in Sichuan plan to make major progress in the development of the AI industry, with its annual industrial output estimated to exceed 50 billion yuan in 2020, and to promote AI technology to better integrate with the real economy.

Guizhou, one of the least developed regions in China, has become a leading hub for the big data industry. As China's first big data pilot zone, the mountainous province has attracted heavyweight players, including Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba and Foxconn, to establish cloud computing and big data centers.

Authorities in Shaanxi are nurturing a complete big-data eco-system, including an exchange, industrial base, industrial fund and industrial alliance.

"The digital wave will provide new impetus to economic growth in western China and make it a pillar of China's quality growth in the future," said Xu Xiaolan, vice president of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.

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