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Guiyang(briefly named 鈥淶hu鈥?, located in the eastern Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in Southwest China, is the capital and center of politics, economy, science & technology and culture of Guizhou Province, as well as one of the inland open cities in China.
The total administrative area of Guiyang is 8034km?, in which urban parts cover 2403km? and the ready-built area reaches 128km?. 34.8% of its administrative area being covered by some 184,000 hector woods, Guiyang is entitled鈥淭he City of Forest鈥?
Guiyang now governs the following 10 districts or counties: Yunyan, Nanming, Huaxi, Wudang, Baiyun, Xiaohe, Qingzhen, Kaiyang, Xiuwen and Xifeng. By the end of 2002, the population was 3,404,400, among which 1,603,300 were urban inhabitants, accounting for 47% of the total. There are 37 minority ethnic groups in Guiyang, reaching 15.4% of the total. The population of the Buyi and Miao is 71.3% of the whole of minority groups.
In the center of the鈥淐entral Guizhou Industrial Zone鈥?and the 鈥淣anning, Guiyang and Kunming Economic Zone鈥?(both are identified by the State Council of China), Guiyang is a new and ever-growing comprehensive industrial city. During the period of China's鈥淣ineth Five-Year Plan鈥? the annual average GDP, financial revenue, financial expenditure and the total retail amount of social consumables increased by 11.4%, 22.84%, 18.83% and 12.9% respectively. As regards the city's GDP, it reached 30.275 billion RMB Yuan in the year of 2001 and 33.637 billion RMB Yuan in 2002, successively with an increment more than 2% higher than those of the state and the provincial average level.
 Guiyang has been awarded a number of titles of honor, such as the National Advanced Garden and Afforestation City, the Sino-Japan Environmental Cooperation Model City, the Chinese Outstanding Tourism City, the National Advanced City of Public Health, the National Advanced City for Science and Education, etc.
Now there is a newly planned district called "The Jinyang New District", situated at the northwest corner of Guiyang, about 6.2 km away from the city center. With the smooth terrain, charming scenery, and convenient traffic, it will be built into a modernized city proper, which integrates as a whole the administration, cultural recreation, commerce, finance, sports, education & scientific research, residence, and high & new tech industries. A plan is being carried out, i.e. completing the construction area of 17 km? with a population of 180,000 by 2010, 40 km? and 400,000 residents in 2020, and 100 km?, and to 500,000 people in 2050. By the end of 2002, the framework project of the 17 km? of road construction has been finished, and the auxiliary water system, power network, drainage, gas supply, and the communication facilities are all functioned there.
Through the market mechanism, the new district would attract investment, as well as high tech and modern service industries, which should be those with beneficial results, low consumption of resources, and low pollution. The construction of the district is of vital importance to the future of Guiyang, as well as an effective way to enlarge the scale and improve the functions of the city. Guiyang people are paying good attention to it concerning not only the scheme, speed, and quality of its construction, but also its management and administration. So it is increasingly becoming a large building site, a huge market, and a place filling with unlimited commercial opportunity.
Nowadays, continually emphasizing the strategy of environment, industry, science, education and sustainable development, giving priority to the liberation of the people's thought, the more-than-regular development, the restructure of economy, the further development of science and technology, and the lifting of people's living standard, Guiyang is acting on the strategic objective of building a moderately well-off society stipulated in the report of the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and is marching toward the goal of further opening up, reform and modernization, and of first implementing the moderately well-off society in Guizhou Provice.
(Source: gygov.gov.cn) |
