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China's poorest province: Guizhou is on the rapid rise
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11 expressways start construction in southwest China
(Xinhua) 23:27, January 05, 2017
GUIYANG, Jan. 5 -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province Thursday started construction of 11 expressways totalling over 1,000 km, or 18 percent of the current expressway length in the province.
The expressways will mainly be located in the eastern part of the province and will cost an estimated 166.4 billion yuan (24.2 billion U.S. dollars), Wang Bingqing, head of the provincial transport department, said at the announcement ceremony.
The projects are expected be finished by the end of 2020.
Among them, one connecting Duyun, capital of Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Qiannan, and Anshun city is the most costly, with a planned cost up to 43.5 billion yuan, Wang said.
After the road opens, major cities in the southwestern area such as Xichang, Zhaotong, Liupanshui and Anshun will have improved road access to China's better developed Pearl River Delta. The expressway will also connect to Shangri-La, a tourist resort in neighboring Yunnan Province.
Currently, Guizhou has 6,100 km of expressways. According to a provincial plan released October, the length will reach 10,000 km in the province around 2020.
(Xinhua) 23:27, January 05, 2017
GUIYANG, Jan. 5 -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province Thursday started construction of 11 expressways totalling over 1,000 km, or 18 percent of the current expressway length in the province.
The expressways will mainly be located in the eastern part of the province and will cost an estimated 166.4 billion yuan (24.2 billion U.S. dollars), Wang Bingqing, head of the provincial transport department, said at the announcement ceremony.
The projects are expected be finished by the end of 2020.
Among them, one connecting Duyun, capital of Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Qiannan, and Anshun city is the most costly, with a planned cost up to 43.5 billion yuan, Wang said.
After the road opens, major cities in the southwestern area such as Xichang, Zhaotong, Liupanshui and Anshun will have improved road access to China's better developed Pearl River Delta. The expressway will also connect to Shangri-La, a tourist resort in neighboring Yunnan Province.
Currently, Guizhou has 6,100 km of expressways. According to a provincial plan released October, the length will reach 10,000 km in the province around 2020.
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China Resources to pump $14.5b into Guiyang cluster
By Chen Meiling in Beijing and Yang Jun in Guiyang ( China Daily )
Updated: 2017-01-20
China Resources (Holdings) Co Ltd is to invest 100 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) to construct a service industry cluster by 2022 in Guiyang, capital of China's southwestern Guizhou province, taking advantage of the city's key geographic location and existing strengths in its big data industry.
"Instead of heavy industry, the city of Guiyang attaches more importance to healthcare, tourism, ecology and big data industries," said Wu Bingqi, senior vice-president of China Resources Land Limited, a subsidiary of China Resources.
"Big data means quicker and more flexible services", Wu said. "It provides an online platform for information collecting and sharing, which could be applied in every aspect of public service," added Wu.
The 25-square-kilometer cluster will comprise a commercial center, a traffic and logistics hub, an entrepreneurship base, a folk culture exhibition center, as well as hotels, hospitals, apartments and international schools. The target is for it to be completed in five years. Details of construction are in discussion with the local government.
"To answer the call to develop State-owned enterprise legally and properly, we chose to cooperate with a major city in southwestern China by making the best use of both our strengths," Wu added.
Guiyang's many ethnic groups and mild climate also suggest a great potential to develop tourism, and the pension and healthcare industries, according to Wu.
Situated at southwestern China's transport junction, Guiyang is seen as an important city along the Belt and Road Initiative, attracting more professionals and companies in the coming years, Wu said.
Guiyang Mayor Liu Wenxin said the project is a milestone in the development of Guiyang's service industry, in line with the strategy of constructing an innovative city featuring big data.
A new subway line connecting the area with Guiyangbei Railway Station will be opened in 2017 in order to improve the facilities around it, Liu said.
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By Chen Meiling in Beijing and Yang Jun in Guiyang ( China Daily )
Updated: 2017-01-20
China Resources (Holdings) Co Ltd is to invest 100 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) to construct a service industry cluster by 2022 in Guiyang, capital of China's southwestern Guizhou province, taking advantage of the city's key geographic location and existing strengths in its big data industry.
"Instead of heavy industry, the city of Guiyang attaches more importance to healthcare, tourism, ecology and big data industries," said Wu Bingqi, senior vice-president of China Resources Land Limited, a subsidiary of China Resources.
"Big data means quicker and more flexible services", Wu said. "It provides an online platform for information collecting and sharing, which could be applied in every aspect of public service," added Wu.
The 25-square-kilometer cluster will comprise a commercial center, a traffic and logistics hub, an entrepreneurship base, a folk culture exhibition center, as well as hotels, hospitals, apartments and international schools. The target is for it to be completed in five years. Details of construction are in discussion with the local government.
"To answer the call to develop State-owned enterprise legally and properly, we chose to cooperate with a major city in southwestern China by making the best use of both our strengths," Wu added.
Guiyang's many ethnic groups and mild climate also suggest a great potential to develop tourism, and the pension and healthcare industries, according to Wu.
Situated at southwestern China's transport junction, Guiyang is seen as an important city along the Belt and Road Initiative, attracting more professionals and companies in the coming years, Wu said.
Guiyang Mayor Liu Wenxin said the project is a milestone in the development of Guiyang's service industry, in line with the strategy of constructing an innovative city featuring big data.
A new subway line connecting the area with Guiyangbei Railway Station will be opened in 2017 in order to improve the facilities around it, Liu said.
chenmeiling@chinadaily.com.cn
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TOURISM BOOM IN GUIZHOU PROVINCE
19.8 million travellers (travellers*days) during the 7-day Spring Festival holiday, up by 28.1%
Transport BOOM
1, Flights: 2690, 316k passengers
2, High-speed Railway, 421k passengers (departure only)
Tourists from outside the province: 7.46 million, 55% increase
21 tourist sites welcomed tourists more than 200k
66 new tourist sites
100+ cultural activities
http://www.gz.xinhuanet.com/2017-02/03/c_1120402748.htm
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19.8 million travellers (travellers*days) during the 7-day Spring Festival holiday, up by 28.1%
Transport BOOM
1, Flights: 2690, 316k passengers
2, High-speed Railway, 421k passengers (departure only)
Tourists from outside the province: 7.46 million, 55% increase
21 tourist sites welcomed tourists more than 200k
66 new tourist sites
100+ cultural activities
http://www.gz.xinhuanet.com/2017-02/03/c_1120402748.htm
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Tuge River scenic region
Wujiang River
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Giant Buddha statue in Guiyang
(People's Daily Online) 15:46, February 14, 2017
A stone Buddha peers over passersby in Guiyang, Guizhou province. The Buddha was carved into the face of a mountain. It stands 50 meters high, and its head alone is nearly 16 meters. (Chinanews.com)
A stone Buddha peers over passersby in Guiyang, Guizhou province. The Buddha was carved into the face of a mountain. It stands 50 meters high, and its head alone is nearly 16 meters. (Chinanews.com)
(People's Daily Online) 15:46, February 14, 2017
A stone Buddha peers over passersby in Guiyang, Guizhou province. The Buddha was carved into the face of a mountain. It stands 50 meters high, and its head alone is nearly 16 meters. (Chinanews.com)
A stone Buddha peers over passersby in Guiyang, Guizhou province. The Buddha was carved into the face of a mountain. It stands 50 meters high, and its head alone is nearly 16 meters. (Chinanews.com)
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Guizhou:Land of The Gorges And Home of The High Bridges
Guizhou is the poorest province in China. Because of the extremely fragmented terrain, this rugged plateau is almost isolated from the outside world until 1990s. An old saying states that in Guizhou there are no three days without rain, no three acres without a mountain and no three coins in any pocket. But now this area become home of the high bridges: more than 5000km expressway linking each county, 3000km HSR reaching every city.
There are hundreds of bridges in Guizhou which are more than 100m high from deck to water, about 50 of them more than 200m. Thirteen more than 300m high, including some 400m+,500m+ high bridges. Outside China, there are totally about 20 bridges more than 200m high, 3 more than 300m high, no bridge to reach 400m high.
From this video we can see Beipanjiang bridge Duge, Malinghe bridge Shankun, Beipanjiang bridge Hukun, Balinghe bridge and some beam bridges:
Beipanjiang Bridge Duge (world's highest bridge)
Malinghe Bridge Shankun
Beipanjiang Bridge Hukun
Balinghe Bridge
贵州是中国最穷困的省份，该省之所以贫穷，因为这里有极其艰险的地形——崎岖的石灰岩高原上千沟万壑，河谷边缘大多有几百米以上的峭壁，全省没有一块平地，在20世纪90年代前几乎与世隔绝。自古以来，这里流传着“天无三日晴，地无三里平，人无三分银”的传说。
今天贵州已成为峡谷的王国，高桥的故乡——超过5000公里高速公路连接起每一个县，3000公里高速铁路通往每一个地级市。这些高速公路和铁路基本由无数的隧道和高桥串联而成，形成世界独一无二的奇观：桥面距离水面高百米以上的高桥有数百座；二百米以上的有五十座左右；三百米以上的有十三座，包括一座五百米以上高度，几座四百米以上高度的高桥。中国以外所有国家相加，只有二百米以上高桥二十座左右，三百米以上三座，四百米以上没有。论跨度，贵州千米以上主跨桥梁四座：坝陵河大桥，清水河大桥，赤水河岔角滩大桥，六盘水大河大桥。目前中国以外跨度千米桥梁最多的是美国和日本，各四座。
从这视频中能看到北盘江都格大桥、汕昆高速公路马岭河大桥、沪昆高速公路北盘江大桥、坝陵河大桥四座，以都格北盘江大桥为主.
Guizhou is the poorest province in China. Because of the extremely fragmented terrain, this rugged plateau is almost isolated from the outside world until 1990s. An old saying states that in Guizhou there are no three days without rain, no three acres without a mountain and no three coins in any pocket. But now this area become home of the high bridges: more than 5000km expressway linking each county, 3000km HSR reaching every city.
There are hundreds of bridges in Guizhou which are more than 100m high from deck to water, about 50 of them more than 200m. Thirteen more than 300m high, including some 400m+,500m+ high bridges. Outside China, there are totally about 20 bridges more than 200m high, 3 more than 300m high, no bridge to reach 400m high.
From this video we can see Beipanjiang bridge Duge, Malinghe bridge Shankun, Beipanjiang bridge Hukun, Balinghe bridge and some beam bridges:
Beipanjiang Bridge Duge (world's highest bridge)
Malinghe Bridge Shankun
Beipanjiang Bridge Hukun
Balinghe Bridge
贵州是中国最穷困的省份，该省之所以贫穷，因为这里有极其艰险的地形——崎岖的石灰岩高原上千沟万壑，河谷边缘大多有几百米以上的峭壁，全省没有一块平地，在20世纪90年代前几乎与世隔绝。自古以来，这里流传着“天无三日晴，地无三里平，人无三分银”的传说。
今天贵州已成为峡谷的王国，高桥的故乡——超过5000公里高速公路连接起每一个县，3000公里高速铁路通往每一个地级市。这些高速公路和铁路基本由无数的隧道和高桥串联而成，形成世界独一无二的奇观：桥面距离水面高百米以上的高桥有数百座；二百米以上的有五十座左右；三百米以上的有十三座，包括一座五百米以上高度，几座四百米以上高度的高桥。中国以外所有国家相加，只有二百米以上高桥二十座左右，三百米以上三座，四百米以上没有。论跨度，贵州千米以上主跨桥梁四座：坝陵河大桥，清水河大桥，赤水河岔角滩大桥，六盘水大河大桥。目前中国以外跨度千米桥梁最多的是美国和日本，各四座。
从这视频中能看到北盘江都格大桥、汕昆高速公路马岭河大桥、沪昆高速公路北盘江大桥、坝陵河大桥四座，以都格北盘江大桥为主.
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Incomparable.
Guiyang is pretty developed.
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Completely different levels of development, though Guizhou is China's poorest province.
Yes, inevitably it is becoming more expensive given the rapid rise of income and living standards of locals.
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Guizhou considering establishment of mega computing center
(Global Times) 08:16, March 07, 2017
Southwest China's Guizhou Province is mulling establishing a mega computing center that can both process data from the world's largest fill-aperture radio telescope, which will finish testing in two years, and fulfill the computing needs of the local government and enterprises.
Liao Fei, head of the Science and Technology Department in Guizhou government, told the Global Times that the cost for the center is estimated to be below 1 billion yuan ($145 million) and the government is open to cooperation with both domestic and overseas enterprises.
Liao said that the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nicknamed Tianyan, will start a test run in the second half of this year. The testing will be completed in two years and the telescope will be put into full use.
FAST is located in Pingtang county, Guizhou, constructed in a natural depression sinkhole caused by karst processes in the region. It is the world's largest fill-aperture radio telescope and was completed in September 2016.
Liao said on Monday that the data collected by the FAST will initially be available to Chinese scientists only but can be made available to other countries after a few years, following a common international practice.
He also noted that Guizhou's data processing center will be different from other super computers, such as the Taihu Light supercomputer located in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
"The cost of building another supercomputer with Taihu Light's processing speed is above 3 billion yuan. Given Guizhou's development level, it is not reasonable to invest such a great amount of money. What we are looking for is a machine that is capable of dealing with computing algorithms that also complies with our demands."
(Global Times) 08:16, March 07, 2017
Southwest China's Guizhou Province is mulling establishing a mega computing center that can both process data from the world's largest fill-aperture radio telescope, which will finish testing in two years, and fulfill the computing needs of the local government and enterprises.
Liao Fei, head of the Science and Technology Department in Guizhou government, told the Global Times that the cost for the center is estimated to be below 1 billion yuan ($145 million) and the government is open to cooperation with both domestic and overseas enterprises.
Liao said that the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nicknamed Tianyan, will start a test run in the second half of this year. The testing will be completed in two years and the telescope will be put into full use.
FAST is located in Pingtang county, Guizhou, constructed in a natural depression sinkhole caused by karst processes in the region. It is the world's largest fill-aperture radio telescope and was completed in September 2016.
Liao said on Monday that the data collected by the FAST will initially be available to Chinese scientists only but can be made available to other countries after a few years, following a common international practice.
He also noted that Guizhou's data processing center will be different from other super computers, such as the Taihu Light supercomputer located in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
"The cost of building another supercomputer with Taihu Light's processing speed is above 3 billion yuan. Given Guizhou's development level, it is not reasonable to invest such a great amount of money. What we are looking for is a machine that is capable of dealing with computing algorithms that also complies with our demands."
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 10:30
E-commerce fights against poverty
By Yang Jun and Hao Nan
Yanhe govt focuses on technology to drive county-wide development, Yang Jun and Hao Nan report.
Villagers celebrate the local plum festival in Nanzhuang village, Yanhe, Guizhou province. (Photo provided To China Daily)
The Yanhe government expects to remove the county in Guizhou province from the list of national-level poverty-stricken areas by developing its e-commerce industry environment.
According to historical records, Yanhe served as an important commercial center during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), thronging with merchants in the middle and lower reaches of Wujiang River, the longest tributary on the southern bank of Yangtze River's upper reach.
However, the tide changed with the rise of land transportation and a newly established hydraulic power station that cut-off the Wujiang waterway. The county lost its advantage in water transportation and gradually fell behind in terms of economic development.
Many of its characteristic farm products, such as plums, goat meat, peanuts and tea, are hardly known to the outside world, partly because of the lack of channels by which to export them.
But, the region is now experiencing a turnaround.
Ran Azhou, a local pioneer engaged in e-commerce, said the emerging e-commerce industry has changed local people's traditional marketing models and has brought Yanhe's rural areas into closer contact with the world outside.
Ran demonstrated his commerce talents when he studied at Guizhou Normal University. He opened a snack shop in his dormitory building and bought his first car in his senior year.
Ran Azhou (right), a pioneer engaged in e-commerce in Yanhe, helps to sell local farmers' agricultural products through his e-commerce company. (Photo provided to China Daily)
When he was about to graduate in 2014, Ran heard that the Yanhe county government had decided to promote characteristically local products. He said he knew that a great opportunity was coming.
Ran returned to Yanhe after graduating and founded an e-commerce company in November 2014 to sell local specialties.
"Our best-selling products include honey, pomeloes and dried beef. The company's sales volume reached 1.2 million yuan (US$174,575) in the first year," he said.
In 2015, Yanhe had a good harvest of pomeloes, with a total output of more than 50,000 kilograms. In only two weeks, Ran's company sold all of the pomeloes, helping local farmers to double their incomes.
"Although there are many challenges in developing electronic businesses in Yanhe, I felt a great sense of accomplishment when I saw local farmers' agricultural products sell out through my company. These products used to be unsellable due to the lack of market channels and information," the 25-year-old said.
By the end of 2016, Yanhe had more than 30 e-commerce companies providing online retail services. Last year, the industry's total trade volume in the county exceeded 300 million yuan. Of this, more than 2.9 million yuan was created on Singles Day, an online shopping day on Nov 11 launched by Tmall - Alibaba Group's business-to-consumer platform.
Fanjing Mountain, a national nature reserve in Tongren, Guizhou province, is a popular travel destination. (Photo provided to China Daily)
"The internet and e-commerce environment help to make returning home an attractive idea," said Wu Zhaohui, deputy director of the e-commerce development office in Guizhou's Tongren city.
Related sectors, such as logistics, packaging and marketing planning, could also create many job opportunities, Wu said.
In 2015, nearly 810,000 young people came back to Guizhou to find jobs and start their own businesses, a year-on-year increase of 30.86 percent.
The Guizhou provincial government has launched a spring campaign to intensify the poverty-alleviation effort.
Guizhou provincial Party chief Chen Min'er said the province would continue to deepen the implementation of President Xi Jinping's guiding strategy with regard to efficient poverty alleviation, in a bid to make further steady headway in promoting the province's anti-poverty projects.
E-commerce, one of the aspects of the anti-poverty projects, is visibly taking off across the province.
Last year's official statistics show that e-commerce trade volume in Guizhou reached 129.18 billion yuan from January to November, a year-on-year increase of 31.14 percent. Online retail transactions contributed 56.83 billion yuan, a 33.56 percent year-on-year increase.
Charming idyllic view in rural areas in Southwest China's Guizhou province. (Photo provided to China Daily)
Currently, the province has more than 50,000 e-commerce companies and online stores, 60 county-level e-commerce service centers and 6,950 service stations in rural areas. It also signed strategic cooperation agreements with several e-business giants, including Alibaba, online retailer JD and Suning Commerce Group.
"The number of Guizhou's e-commerce service stations will reach 10,000 at the end of this year, and the province's online retail turnover is supposed to exceed 80 billion yuan at the same time. The industry's trade volume is expected to exceed 200 billion yuan in 2017 and 360 billion yuan in 2020, the last year for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20)," said Shen Xinguo, deputy head of the province's Commerce Department.
However, the future development of Guizhou's electronic business will not be plain sailing.
"The biggest problem is the lack of talented people in the industry. Transportation infrastructure in rural areas also needs improvement to lower logistics costs," Shen said.
An improved transport network, including high-speed railways, has made Guizhou an easier place to visit. (Photo provided to China Daily)
E-commerce fights against poverty
By Yang Jun and Hao Nan
Yanhe govt focuses on technology to drive county-wide development, Yang Jun and Hao Nan report.
The Yanhe government expects to remove the county in Guizhou province from the list of national-level poverty-stricken areas by developing its e-commerce industry environment.
According to historical records, Yanhe served as an important commercial center during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), thronging with merchants in the middle and lower reaches of Wujiang River, the longest tributary on the southern bank of Yangtze River's upper reach.
However, the tide changed with the rise of land transportation and a newly established hydraulic power station that cut-off the Wujiang waterway. The county lost its advantage in water transportation and gradually fell behind in terms of economic development.
Many of its characteristic farm products, such as plums, goat meat, peanuts and tea, are hardly known to the outside world, partly because of the lack of channels by which to export them.
But, the region is now experiencing a turnaround.
Ran Azhou, a local pioneer engaged in e-commerce, said the emerging e-commerce industry has changed local people's traditional marketing models and has brought Yanhe's rural areas into closer contact with the world outside.
Ran demonstrated his commerce talents when he studied at Guizhou Normal University. He opened a snack shop in his dormitory building and bought his first car in his senior year.
When he was about to graduate in 2014, Ran heard that the Yanhe county government had decided to promote characteristically local products. He said he knew that a great opportunity was coming.
Ran returned to Yanhe after graduating and founded an e-commerce company in November 2014 to sell local specialties.
"Our best-selling products include honey, pomeloes and dried beef. The company's sales volume reached 1.2 million yuan (US$174,575) in the first year," he said.
In 2015, Yanhe had a good harvest of pomeloes, with a total output of more than 50,000 kilograms. In only two weeks, Ran's company sold all of the pomeloes, helping local farmers to double their incomes.
"Although there are many challenges in developing electronic businesses in Yanhe, I felt a great sense of accomplishment when I saw local farmers' agricultural products sell out through my company. These products used to be unsellable due to the lack of market channels and information," the 25-year-old said.
By the end of 2016, Yanhe had more than 30 e-commerce companies providing online retail services. Last year, the industry's total trade volume in the county exceeded 300 million yuan. Of this, more than 2.9 million yuan was created on Singles Day, an online shopping day on Nov 11 launched by Tmall - Alibaba Group's business-to-consumer platform.
"The internet and e-commerce environment help to make returning home an attractive idea," said Wu Zhaohui, deputy director of the e-commerce development office in Guizhou's Tongren city.
Related sectors, such as logistics, packaging and marketing planning, could also create many job opportunities, Wu said.
In 2015, nearly 810,000 young people came back to Guizhou to find jobs and start their own businesses, a year-on-year increase of 30.86 percent.
The Guizhou provincial government has launched a spring campaign to intensify the poverty-alleviation effort.
Guizhou provincial Party chief Chen Min'er said the province would continue to deepen the implementation of President Xi Jinping's guiding strategy with regard to efficient poverty alleviation, in a bid to make further steady headway in promoting the province's anti-poverty projects.
E-commerce, one of the aspects of the anti-poverty projects, is visibly taking off across the province.
Last year's official statistics show that e-commerce trade volume in Guizhou reached 129.18 billion yuan from January to November, a year-on-year increase of 31.14 percent. Online retail transactions contributed 56.83 billion yuan, a 33.56 percent year-on-year increase.
Currently, the province has more than 50,000 e-commerce companies and online stores, 60 county-level e-commerce service centers and 6,950 service stations in rural areas. It also signed strategic cooperation agreements with several e-business giants, including Alibaba, online retailer JD and Suning Commerce Group.
"The number of Guizhou's e-commerce service stations will reach 10,000 at the end of this year, and the province's online retail turnover is supposed to exceed 80 billion yuan at the same time. The industry's trade volume is expected to exceed 200 billion yuan in 2017 and 360 billion yuan in 2020, the last year for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20)," said Shen Xinguo, deputy head of the province's Commerce Department.
However, the future development of Guizhou's electronic business will not be plain sailing.
"The biggest problem is the lack of talented people in the industry. Transportation infrastructure in rural areas also needs improvement to lower logistics costs," Shen said.
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Guizhou, One of China's Underdeveloped Provinces, Vows to Build 10,000 km of Highway, More Than All of France
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Mar 07, 2017, 08:59 ET
BEIJING, March 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- "Guizhou is to build more than 10,000 km of highway by 2020
," Mr. Sun Zhigang, the governor of Guizhou, told journalists at the March 6th Press Conference of the Guizhou Delegation participating the fifth annual session of the National People's Congress in Beijing.
There was 8,600 km of highway in France in 2007.
FAST, the world's largest radio telescope, is in trial operation after 3 years of construction, attracting huge public attention. Photographer: Li Guiyun
Located in China's heartland, Guizhou ranked 21st among all 31 provinces in terms of GDP volume in 2016. Usually regarded as a remote and underdeveloped area, it achieved 10.5% GDP growth, dwarfing the 6.5% national average. Thanks to its rapid growth in recent years, Guizhou finished constructing 5,100 km of highway by 2015, roughly connecting every county in the area.
Besides highways, Guizhou is planning to complete construction of 17 airports, 600 km of inland waterways, and 4,000 km of high-speed rail lines in three years, turning the area into a strategic transport junction in southwest China. "By 2020, one will need only two hours to travel from Guiyang to Nanning or Chengdu by high-speed train," Mr. Wang Bingqing, the head of the Transportation Department of Guizhou's provincial government told Huanqiu.com. Both cities are more than 400 km from the capital city Guiyang.
Senior officals in Guizhou believe the ambitious plan for transportation infrastructure construction will help improve its pillar industries, one of which is tourism. "It underwent a surge growth last year," Mr. Chen Min'er, the CPC secretary of Guizhou summarizedat the press conference. He attributed the 50% growth of tourism in 2016 to the well-developed, high-level road network.
The rapidly-extending highway exposes the tourism potential of Guizhou, including transforming the world's largest aperture spherical radio telescope into a famous resort. FAST, as the five-hundred-meter-diameter telescope is more commonly known, was put into trial operation last September. The organizers of the state-sponsored project expected to attract more R&D investment and cooperation from the Central government, said Mr. Liao Fei, head of the Science and Technology Department of Guizhou, when asked by Huanqiu.com. "We are aiming to establish a National Astronomy Reach Center in Guizhou, " said Mr. Liao. Before that, FAST witnessed more than 10,000 enthusiastic tourists daily in the first week of October 2016.
In addition, the man-made architecture is designed and built extraordinarily special and charming to echo Guizhou's unique mountainous landscape. Beipanjiang Bridge, crossing over 564 meters above the Beipanjiang river, substantially saves one hourof driving between Guizhou and its neighboring province, Yunnan. The world highest bridge welcomed its first BASE jumping parachuter in February this year. More extreme sporters will come, according to local media.
The booming tourism industry demonstrates strong support for the government's poverty reduction policy. The latter is set with the official priority as Mr. Chen Min'er stressed that "poverty reduction is a hard battle that we cannot lose." 1.2 million of the populationwho live below the poverty line became better off last year, partly owing to the prosperous tourism market.
"By 2020 there will be more than 200,000 km of various roads in Guizhou," Mr. Wang Bingqing gave his sketch for the future transportation. "We will connect each village and township."
The press conference was organized with the assistance of Huanqiu.com. Huanqiu.com was established in November 2007 under the approval of People's Daily and the State Council Information Office, with investments from both People.com.cn and Global Times. Huanqiu.com provides timely, accurate international information and in-depth analysis from a special perspective, which is widely distributed in domestic and foreign media. Huanqiu.com is the most important provider of original content, a professional overseas game distribution agency and the most influential overseas bilingual news portal in Chinese and English.
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Mar 07, 2017, 08:59 ET
BEIJING, March 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- "Guizhou is to build more than 10,000 km of highway by 2020
," Mr. Sun Zhigang, the governor of Guizhou, told journalists at the March 6th Press Conference of the Guizhou Delegation participating the fifth annual session of the National People's Congress in Beijing.There was 8,600 km of highway in France in 2007.
FAST, the world's largest radio telescope, is in trial operation after 3 years of construction, attracting huge public attention. Photographer: Li Guiyun
Located in China's heartland, Guizhou ranked 21st among all 31 provinces in terms of GDP volume in 2016. Usually regarded as a remote and underdeveloped area, it achieved 10.5% GDP growth, dwarfing the 6.5% national average. Thanks to its rapid growth in recent years, Guizhou finished constructing 5,100 km of highway by 2015, roughly connecting every county in the area.
Besides highways, Guizhou is planning to complete construction of 17 airports, 600 km of inland waterways, and 4,000 km of high-speed rail lines in three years, turning the area into a strategic transport junction in southwest China. "By 2020, one will need only two hours to travel from Guiyang to Nanning or Chengdu by high-speed train," Mr. Wang Bingqing, the head of the Transportation Department of Guizhou's provincial government told Huanqiu.com. Both cities are more than 400 km from the capital city Guiyang.
Senior officals in Guizhou believe the ambitious plan for transportation infrastructure construction will help improve its pillar industries, one of which is tourism. "It underwent a surge growth last year," Mr. Chen Min'er, the CPC secretary of Guizhou summarizedat the press conference. He attributed the 50% growth of tourism in 2016 to the well-developed, high-level road network.
The rapidly-extending highway exposes the tourism potential of Guizhou, including transforming the world's largest aperture spherical radio telescope into a famous resort. FAST, as the five-hundred-meter-diameter telescope is more commonly known, was put into trial operation last September. The organizers of the state-sponsored project expected to attract more R&D investment and cooperation from the Central government, said Mr. Liao Fei, head of the Science and Technology Department of Guizhou, when asked by Huanqiu.com. "We are aiming to establish a National Astronomy Reach Center in Guizhou, " said Mr. Liao. Before that, FAST witnessed more than 10,000 enthusiastic tourists daily in the first week of October 2016.
In addition, the man-made architecture is designed and built extraordinarily special and charming to echo Guizhou's unique mountainous landscape. Beipanjiang Bridge, crossing over 564 meters above the Beipanjiang river, substantially saves one hourof driving between Guizhou and its neighboring province, Yunnan. The world highest bridge welcomed its first BASE jumping parachuter in February this year. More extreme sporters will come, according to local media.
The booming tourism industry demonstrates strong support for the government's poverty reduction policy. The latter is set with the official priority as Mr. Chen Min'er stressed that "poverty reduction is a hard battle that we cannot lose." 1.2 million of the populationwho live below the poverty line became better off last year, partly owing to the prosperous tourism market.
"By 2020 there will be more than 200,000 km of various roads in Guizhou," Mr. Wang Bingqing gave his sketch for the future transportation. "We will connect each village and township."
The press conference was organized with the assistance of Huanqiu.com. Huanqiu.com was established in November 2007 under the approval of People's Daily and the State Council Information Office, with investments from both People.com.cn and Global Times. Huanqiu.com provides timely, accurate international information and in-depth analysis from a special perspective, which is widely distributed in domestic and foreign media. Huanqiu.com is the most important provider of original content, a professional overseas game distribution agency and the most influential overseas bilingual news portal in Chinese and English.
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