Guizhou Province, China
Friendly Cooperation Cities (※ No sister city)
Guizhou Province, China
- Date of Friendly Cooperation Agreement : Jul 7, 2016 / Lee Choon-hee, Mayor of Sejong City– Sun Zhigang, Governor of Guizhou Province
- Province Capital (Seat of Provincial Government) : Guiyang(貴陽)
- Location : Southwestern region in China (bordering Sichuan Province and Chongqing to north, Hunan Province to east, the Guangxi Autonomous Region to south and Yunnan Province to west)
Overview
- Population : 36.2 million (As of 2019)
- Area : 176,167 km²
- Climate : Sub-tropic seasonal climate
- Administrative Division : 6 prefecture-level cities, 3 autonomous regions, 9 county-level city
- Major Tourist Attraction : the Asia’s largest Huangguoshu Waterfall, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Fanjingshan Mountain Biosphere Reserve, Wanfenglin Forest with ten thousand peaks, the traditional performance by the minority ethnic group Miao, and Malinghe Waterfall
- Major Industry : Non-metal product, coal mining, tourism, metal refining
Key Characteristics
- Strong presence of minor ethnic groups of Miao, Bouyei, and Kam, accounting for 35% of total province population
- Possession of beautiful natural environment and abundant natural resources including mineral resources
- Possession of Huangguosu Falls, the world's four largest waterfalls
- Most primitive and perfectly preserved ecology of nature and ethnic cultures
- One of the 4 major herbal medicine production sites in China with 3,700 species of medicinal herbs grown
- 10th largest mineral reserves in the nation with 52 minerals buried, including natural gas and manganite
- Birth place of the modern Chinese history with Mao Zedong off to the start of Long March (the Zunyi Conference) in 1934
- Core area of the China’s grand western development policy with high potentials for growth
- Second highest growth rate nationwide for the first half of 2019 (among 31 direct-controlled cities and provinces)
- Formed the China’s largest big data industry cluster
- Production base of Maotai, the China’s no. 1 liquor.
- Home to 47 universities including Guizhou University with a pool of quality human resources available
