The Nanning area of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone. [Photo/gxftz.gxzf.gov.cn]

The Nanning area of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone announced a total of five key investment projects in 2020, with a total investment of over 10 billion yuan ($1.41 billion), covering the information technology, smart logistics, e-commerce, and information services industries.

The Sino-Ocean Big Data Industrial Park of the China-ASEAN Information Harbor in Wuxiang New District, Nanning will become a data center industrial park with the largest scale, highest level, best security, and the most energy saving features after completion.

Relying on key industries like healthcare, big data, logistics, smart manufacturing, new materials, new energy, and tourism in the core area of the China-ASEAN Information Harbor, the park will provide digital infrastructure service guarantees for data storage, cloud computing, and data transaction application scenarios for governments, enterprises, financial institutions, as well as communication operators.

The China-ASEAN Geographic Information and Satellite Application Industrial Park project strives to initially establish a geographic information and satellite application industrial base with an annual output value exceeding 10 billion yuan. Ten institutions under the Natural Resources Department of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have settled in it and 46 enterprises in and outside the region have also shown their intention to settle in it as of Dec 31, 2019.

The Guangxi Minhua cross-border e-commerce technology industrial park project will mainly build an operation center, a data center, a display center, a talent training center, a high-tech enterprise incubation base, and related supporting facilities of international cross-border e-commerce platforms.

The Nanning modern building materials processing and logistics distribution center project is expected to generate an average annual operating income of 12 billion yuan, bringing profit and tax revenues of about 1 billion yuan, as well as creating 10,000 new jobs.

The Ronghua Science and Technology Park project focuses on investment promotion for enterprises engaged in information technology.