Guizhou City

Zunyi

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Zunyi , known as the "Famous City in History", is one of the two most important cities of Guizhou Province, the People's Republic of China.

Zunyi is a prefecture-level city in Guizhou province in southwestern China . The two main district of the city, known as HuiChuan and Honghuagang, have a population of around 800,000 people, and the whole region, including 14 county-level administration area as a whole, has a population of approximately 7 million.

Location

Zunyi is located in North Guizhou province, situated at the side of the Xiangjiang River - a branch of Wujiang River. The altitude of the city is approximately 900 meters.

History

Zunyi is known for being the location where Mao Zedong was first elected to the leadership of the Communist Party of China during the Long March. After this famours "Zunyi meeting", Mao Zedong and other two leaders formed a group to control the procedure of Long March. Chinese tourists come to take photographs in the meeting hall where this historic election took place . This historical meeting hall once belonged to a local warlord and after being occupied by the Red Army served as the temporary headquarters.

Economy

Zunyi is the economic and commercial hub of the North Guizhou Province. The GDP of the city accounts for one quarter of the whole province among its 9 prefecture-level divisions.

Culture

Being known as the "home of culture" of Guizhou province, Zunyi, or the North-Guizhou area, is the education and Economics centre of the province.

Institutions of higher learning

*Zunyi Medical College

Culture of food and wine

Zunyi is known for being a place where Chinese leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, visited to enjoy its fiery hot local cuisine, including yangrou fen .

This is made with Lai fen, a kind of thick wide round rice noodle that is made locally , and is difficult to find elsewhere.

The rice liquor Maotai is brewed nearby, as is Dongjiu. The local beer Gaoyuan is quite delicious.
It is said that the local mountain water accounts for the quality of these locally-brewed beverages, although pollution currently threatens the water of the Chishui River, from which Maotai is made.

Tongren Prefecture

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Tongren is a prefecture in eastern Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China.
Tongren is within a tobacco planting and crop agricultural area.

Tongren comprises 1 county-level city, 4 counties, 1 special district, and 4 autonomous counties.
*county-level city: Tongren City.
*county: Dejiang County, Jiangkou County, , Shiqian County.
*special district: Wanshan Special District.
*autonomous county: Yuping Dong Autonomous County, Songtao Miao Autonomous County, Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County.

Tongren City

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Tongren City is a county-level city in Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China.

Area: 1514 km².

Population: 340,000

Postal Code: 554300.

Phone Code: 0856.

Qingzhen

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Qingzhen is a county-level city under the administration of Guiyang in Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China.

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

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Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province in the People's Republic of China. The capital of the prefecture is Duyun. Qiandongnan has an area of 26,207 km?.

Demographics

According to the 2000 Census, Qiannan Prefecture has 3,569,847 inhabitants with a population density of 136.22 inhabitants/km?.

Ethnic groups in Qiannan, 2000 census

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 12 : 2 county-level cities, 9 , and 1 autonomous county.
*county level city: Duyun , Fuquan
*county: Guiding County , Huishui County , Luodian County , Weng'an County , Libo County, Longli County , Pingtang County , Changshun County , Dushan County
*autonomous county: Sandu Shui Autonomous County

Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture

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Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province in the People's Republic of China. The seat of the prefecture is Kaili. Qiandongnan has an area of 30,339 km?.

Demographics

According to the 2000 Census Qiandongnan has 3,844,697 inhabitants with a population density of 126.72 inhabitants/km?.

Ethnic groups in Qiandongnan, 2000 census

Subdivisions

The prefecture is subdivided into 16 : 1 county-level city and 15
*County level city:
*Counties:
**Shibing County
**Congjiang County
**Jinping County
**Zhenyuan County
**Majiang County
**Taijiang County
**Tianzhu County
**Huangping County
**Rongjiang County
**Jianhe county
**Sansui County
**Leishan County
**Liping County
**Cengong County
**Danzhai County

Listening

*, April 2008

Guiyang

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Guiyang is the capital of Guizhou Province, the People's Republic of China.

Guiyang is located in central Guizhou province, situated on the east of the Yungui Plateau, and on the north bank of the Nanming River, a branch of the Wujiang River. The city has an elevation of about 1,100 meters. It has an area of 8,034 square kilometers.

History

The city was first constructed as early as 1283 AD during the Yuan Dynasty. It was originally called Shunyuan , meaning obeying the Yuan .

Originally the area was populated by non-. The Sui dynasty had a commandery there, and the Tang dynasty a prefecture. They were, however, no more than military outposts, and it was not until the Yuan invasion of southwest China in 1279 that the area was made the seat of an army and a "pacification office." Chinese settlement in the area also began at that time, and, under the and dynasties, the town became the seat of a superior prefecture named Guiyang.

Locally Guiyang was an important administrative and commercial center with two distinct merchant communities, consisting of the Sichuanese, who lived in the "new" northern part of the city, and those from Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi province, who lived in the "old" southern part. Nevertheless, until the Sino-Japanese War , Guiyang was no more than the capital of one of China's least-developed provinces. As elsewhere in the southwest, considerable economic progress was made under the special circumstances of wartime. Road transport infrastructure with Kunming in Yunnan province and with Chongqing in Sichuan and into Hunan were established. Work was begun on a railway from Liuzhou in Guangxi, and after 1949 this development was accelerated. Guiyang has subsequently become a major provincial city and industrial base. In 1959 the rail network in Guangxi was completed, allowing seemless connection from Guizhou to Chongqing to the north, to Kunming to the west, and Changsha to the east.

Administrative divisions

#Wudang District
#Nanming District
#Yunyan District
#Huaxi District
#Baiyun District
#Xiaohe District
#Qingzhen City
#Kaiyang County
#Xiuwen County
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Geography

Guiyang has grown almost exponentially since the 1990s. The city's heart is around the 大十字 which is a cross, resembling the Chinese character for ten, and 大瀑布 which is a fountain in the center of a rondpoint.

The city is situated on the Nanming River, a headstream of the Wu River, which eventually joins the Yangtze River at Fuling in Sichuan province. Guiyang is a natural route center, with comparatively easy access northward to Sichuan and northeast to Hunan province.

Climate

Guiyang is temperate and humid, and has a subtropical monsoon climate, with fairly mild winters and warm summers. The seasons are not particularly distinct. Unseasonably warm or cold spells are common although temperatures rarely reach extremes. Average highs are 49F in January and 83F in July.

Rain falls throughout the year, with occasional flurries in winter. It is also one of China's least sunny cities.

Economy

Guiyang is the economic and commercial hub of Guizhou Province. The GDP per capita was ?11728 in 2003, ranked no. 206 among 659 Chinese cities.

is mined in the locality of Guiyang and Anshun, and there are large thermal generating plants at Guiyang and Duyun, supplying electricity for the city's industry. A large iron and steel plant came into production in Guiyang in 1960, supplying the local machinery-manufacturing industry.

Large deposits of bauxite have been discovered to the north, and by the 1970s Guiyang had become a major producer of aluminum. Guiyang also manufactures industrial and mining equipment, as well as railway vehicles and equipment. It has a large chemical industry, producing fertilizers, and a rubber industry, manufacturing automobile tires. Guiyang also has textile plants and makes glass, paper, and other consumer goods.

Demographics

Guiyang is populated by 23 , in addition to the .

As of 2003 , the total population of Guiyang municipality was 3.45 million, among which 1.65 million were urban residents.

Transport

Transportation in Guiyang consists of an extensive bus system and many taxis. The relatively recently constructed Longdongbao international airport conducts air traffic. The main southern railway station is being rebuilt in .

There is a high-speed rail line to and from Chengdu, Sichuan.

Education

The city is the cultural and educational center of Guizhou province and has a university, a teacher-training college, and a medical school.

*Guizhou University

Religion

On October 15, 1696, the city was made the seat of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Kweichow. This was suppressed in 1715 and restored in 1846. In 1924 it was renamed as the Apostolic Vicariate of Guiyang, and in 1946 it was promated to its current status as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guiyang.

Sister cities

* Palmerston North, New Zealand

Fuquan

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Fuquan is a county-level city in Southern
Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China.

Duyun

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Duyun is the capital of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou province in the People's Republic of China.

Congjiang County

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Congjiang County is a in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is divided by a river on the southeastern border of Guizhou, near Guangxi .

It is an important transit point as the first major city inside Guizhou on the Sanjiang to Kaili road. A large bridge spans the river and connects the city's two halves.