Shi Xichang has been planting rice in his village of Sanzhou in Guizhou province for decades, but his latest autumn harvest delivered a bit of a shock — his rice grew to over 2 meters for the very first time.
Holding the honor of being an oriental hub of sorghum firewater, Kweichow Moutai Group, a distilling giant headquartered in Southwest China's Guizhou province, has made inroads in its overall development in the past decade.
At 5:30 am, when the sky just begins to brighten, a thin figure in a white shirt paces around with a book in hand, waiting for students in the classroom.
To build a modern socialist country in all respects, we must, first and foremost, pursue high-quality development. We must fully and faithfully apply the new development philosophy on all fronts, continue reforms to develop the socialist market economy, promote high-standard opening-up and accelerate efforts to foster a new pattern of development that is focused on the domestic economy and features positive interplay between domestic and international economic flows.
Since 2012, Southwest China's Guizhou province has lifted 66 counties and 9.23 million people out of poverty, as well as relocated 1.92 million people from remote areas, more than anywhere else in China on both counts.
The 39 delegates from Southwest China's Guizhou province arrived in Beijing on Oct 13 to attend the 20th CPC National Congress, which will commence on Oct 16.
Guizhou province in Southwest China has gone from a landlocked, mountainous region to a major transport hub in record time. But even that stunning transformation is merely a representative sample of China's wide-ranging efforts in infrastructure construction.