From January to September, the total investment in big data projects in Southwest China's Guizhou province reached 28.07 billion yuan ($3.95 billion), up 25.08 percent year on year.

Private enterprises invested 18.19 billion yuan, accounting for 64.8 percent of the total and marking an increase of 24.32 percentage points compared to the same period last year. Guiyang City and Gui'an New Area invested 15.94 billion yuan, accounting for 56.8 percent of the total.

In terms of the investment industrial chain, upstream projects, including component manufacturing, system software development, and the construction of information technology parks, received an investment of 2.12 billion yuan, accounting for 7.56 percent of the total.

The midstream projects attracted 19.03 billion yuan, mainly in data centers and network infrastructure projects, accounting for 67.81 percent of the total. Meanwhile, downstream projects garnered 6.92 billion yuan, accounting for 24.63 percent of the total, mainly in big data platforms and application projects.