Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province, is stepping into the age of global commerce with the establishment of the Guiyang International Shopping Mall on Sunday.

The mall located in the Guanshanhu district of Guiyang, with an investment of 60 billion yuan ($9.67 billion), will serve as a commercial cluster based on modern logistics and supplementary services, involving commercial businesses in China and Southeast Asia.

Nearly 1,000 stores in the 1.4 million square meter shopping mall will serve customers with all kinds of commodities.