Interior benefits most from digital economy

China's vast inland regions have benefited the most from the booming digital economy in areas like e-commerce and smart logistics, according to a new study released on Tuesday by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.

Gansu province recorded 114 percent in e-commerce sales, the fastest year-on-year growth across Alibaba's platforms in the first 11 months of 2017, closely followed by Guizhou province and the Tibet autonomous region, according to the 2017 China Digital Economy Development Report.

This compared with a 32.4 percent surge in the country's 6.43 trillion yuan ($986 billion) in online retail sales during the same period, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.