Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guizhou Province has never been considered an economically strong province. It can be said that its foundation is extremely weak, its development is seriously lagging behind, and it has long been at the bottom of the country.

There is a word that can better describe the situation in Guizhou: old, young, remote, and poor.

"Old" refers to old revolutionary base areas, regions that have historically contributed to the revolution.

"Shao" refers to autonomous regions for ethnic minorities, places where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities.

Border: refers to land border areas, border counties that border foreign countries.

Poor: refers to economically underdeveloped areas, formerly impoverished counties.

The situation remained largely unchanged in 2012. China's per capita GDP ranked last among the 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in China, and other major economic indicators were also lagging behind the rest of the country.

Its industrial structure is also very simple, with an abnormally high proportion of agriculture, and urbanization lags far behind industrialization. It is the most underdeveloped province in the country with the most prominent poverty problem.

According to the central government's calculations, Guizhou's progress toward a moderately prosperous society is roughly 8 years behind the national average and 4 years behind the western average. The poverty incidence rate is as high as 26.8%, and getting rid of absolute poverty seems to be an impossible task for Guizhou.

However, history always presents opportunities; it all depends on whether you can seize them.

In 2012, Guizhou seized this opportunity to stand up for itself. Leaders at all levels in Guizhou Province began to plan and bet heavily on the high-end information industry.

In November, the "Opinions of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government on Accelerating the Leapfrog Development of the Information Industry" was officially released. Guizhou began to actively contact China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, offering various excellent conditions to encourage them to build data centers.

In fact, Guizhou is indeed a chosen place for building data.

In terms of climate, although it is not as cold as the three northeastern provinces or Ningxia and Qinghai, it is still considered to have a suitable climate, with an average annual temperature of 15℃ and an average summer temperature of no more than 25℃, which would rank it as a second-class city in various rating systems.

In terms of energy, this area is a key power source for the West-to-East Power Transmission Project, with hydropower, thermal power, wind power, and solar power all operating in tandem.

Geologically speaking, the area has a stable geological structure, is open, and has low development costs. There have been no earthquakes of magnitude 6 or higher since the 20th century. The karst topography, with its many mountains and caves, is conducive to building tunnel data centers, using natural mountains as constant temperature layers and protective layers.

Then the most important point is policy. Actually, there are other suitable places in the country. The three northeastern provinces are no problem in terms of climate and electricity as old industrial areas, but the policy response is much worse.

In addition, Guizhou before her rebirth was a place that everyone who had ever used an Apple product remembered vividly, so Chen Yiran ultimately chose to go there.

Guizhou Province was overjoyed at his arrival, feeling as if a pie had fallen from the sky.

Moreover, there was no prior information about this matter; neither Aurora Group nor Apple had sent anyone to explore or investigate it.

The provincial government brought the highest level of protocol, with everyone from the governor to the vice governors in attendance. They were both excited and nervous.

Unlike China's three major telecom operators, Aurora Group and Apple are world-class companies. If they establish data centers in Guizhou, it is very likely to attract other foreign companies to Guizhou as well.

Furthermore, the Gui'an New Area is currently only planned within the province. They want to submit it to higher authorities, but they lack confidence and it's still in the final planning stage. If a large international company like Apple Aurora announces its presence there, the provincial government will have a much stronger case when submitting its report to the central government.

In that case, Gui'an New Area will definitely become China's 7th national-level new area, and its future development will be much smoother, creating a greater agglomeration effect.

As soon as Chen Yiran got off the plane, she saw a huge crowd of people waiting to pick her up. Quan Zhongrui, who had been working so hard the whole way, immediately became obedient and stood properly behind her, pretending to be her secretary.

After a brief greeting to the welcoming crowd, several government leaders accompanied Chen Yiran to Qianna Guizhou Banquet, a long-established Guizhou cuisine brand in Guiyang.

Sour soup fish, Kung Pao chicken, bamboo fungus and braised chicken, crispy spicy pork intestines, and braised pork hock with pickled cabbage. Every dish was delicious and unique, making Chen Yiran feel that Guizhou cuisine was being held back by economic development, and these dishes didn't have much influence outside of Guizhou.

The hotel we stayed at was also chosen by the Guiyang government; it was the Kempinski. Although the location was excellent, with views of the Nanming River and Jiaxiu Tower from the bedroom window, it was still very convenient.

However, Chen Yiran still felt a little awkward, as Guo Degang had ruined a perfectly good hotel.

Whenever Chen Yiran thinks of the Kempinski Hotel, he wonders if there's anywhere nearby that sells shaved noodles. (From the crosstalk "Dream of the Western Expedition")

After a night of pleasure with Quan Zhongrui, Chen Yiran held discussions with officials from the Guizhou Provincial Government.

The cooperation framework is actually very simple, because China no longer issues Internet Data Center (IDC) licenses, which are value-added telecommunications business operating licenses.

Moreover, even if the issuance is reinstated, the policy does not allow foreign capital to obtain it, so finding a domestic partner is essential.

Chen Yiran directly suggested that the Guizhou Provincial Government could invest in and establish a company, and he even had a name in mind: Guizhou on the Cloud.

Apple will invest one billion US dollars to build a large data center, and then pay a certain amount of operating fees every year to Guizhou Cloud Big Data Center to ensure that all data in China must remain in China.

Even now, Doubao in Apple and Samsung systems has not been launched in China due to review issues. With the establishment of a data center in Guizhou, we can use the channels here, and then let Guizhou Cloud recruit reviewers to conduct compliance reviews before launching it to the market.

Aurora Group will build some small data centers as computing channels to supply domestic wafer fabs and DJI.

The conditions were so favorable that the Guizhou Provincial Government agreed without hesitation.

They never imagined that one day, not only would a pie fall from the sky, but chopsticks, small bowls, scallions, ginger, and garlic would also fall together.

After settling things off with Guizhou Cloud, Chen Yiran rushed off to Europe to begin engaging in some shady deals with EU member states.