The city of Yangquan in North China's Shanxi province recently established its first municipal skilled digital talent training base in order to promote the development of the digital economy. 

Since the beginning of this year, the city has been improving its policy system to prioritize the development of the digital economy, boost market entities, and improve the industrial chain. 

Relying on local industrial platforms and strong policy support, Yangquan has gathered a number of digital economy companies. 

As of Sept 30, there were 1,662 businesses engaged in information transmission, software and information service industries in Yangquan, an increase of 479 since the beginning of the year and exceeding the annual target. 

Next, the city will continue to optimize the local business environment, attach great importance to the multiplication of market entities, implement digital-economy-related policies, offer services to enterprises, and promote steady growth of digital economy operators.