Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, noted that Guangdong's move to empower businesses to operate is in line with the development trend of digital techs including cloud computing, which demand higher updating efficiency and frequency.

He lauded the province's practice of assessing the effectiveness of government services by the popularity of e-government platforms among local residents, which had enabled Tencent to fully leverage its prowess in personal terminal services.

On top of Tencent, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, another tech giant in China, is also fueling the digitalization of the country.

According to Hu Xiaoming, president of Ant Financial, the mobile payment arm of Alibaba, over 500 million people from 442 cities across China, accounting for a quarter of the nation's population, accessed life and government services including paying utility bills, withdrawing housing provident funds and applying for electronic driving licenses on Alipay in 2018.

Lu Xiangdong, deputy head of e-governance at the General Office of the State Council, revealed that the nation has accelerated the pace of constructing a national unified online government service platform underpinned by regional ones.

China has seen a notable improvement in business climate through the relentless efforts to enhance its governance capacity and efficiency in recent years.

The World Bank's report of Doing Business 2019 ranked China number 46, up by 32 spots from 2017.