mysql.connector.errors.InterfaceError: 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'xx.xxx.xx.xxx:3306' (10061 No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it)

import mysql.connector

db = mysql.connector.connect(host='xx.xxx.xx.xxx', database='bm_new', user='dbusername', password='dbpassword')
if db.is_connected():
    print('connected to Mysql database')