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| Basics
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Economy
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Official Contact Information
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| Area : 176,100 km2
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Agriculture : apples, bananas,
chestnuts, coffee, cork, cotton, cured tobacco, eucommia bark, gallnuts, hemp,
lemongrass, maize, millet, olives, oranges, peanuts, pears, pineapples,
potatoes, ramie, rapeseed, rice, sesame, silver fungus, soybeans, sugarcane,
tea, timber, tung oil, walnuts, wheat
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Provincial government office address :
not available
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| Capital and Largest City : Guiyang
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Animal products : not available
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Telephone : (86)(851)682-5445
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| English meaning of name : Expensive
place
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Foreign direct investment (2003) :
not available
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Website (Chinese) :
www.chinaguizhou.gov.cn/
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| Major Nationalities (2000) : Han 63%,
Miao 12%, Buyi 8%, Dong 5%, Tujia 4%, Yi 2%, Gelao 2%, Shui 1%
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GDP (2002) : 118.5 yuan
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Website (English) :
www.chinaguizhou.gov.cn
/greenhome/default
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| Organization : 9 prefectures; 88
counties; 1539 townships
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GDP per capita (2002) : 3088 yuan
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Transportation
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| Population (2002) : 38,370,000
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Industry : alcoholic beverages, food
processing, mineral water, paper, tobacco products, textiles (including linen,
silk and wool)
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Airports : Guiyang Longdongbao
Airport (KWE), Zunyi Airport (ZYI), Tongren Daxing Airport (TEN) is under
construction
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| Population density : 218/km2
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List of desired foreign investment projects
: http://www.gzfdi.cn/english
/investment/en_tzgz /Investment
/en_tzgz_Investment2003061205.htm
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Highways/railroads : several
expressways are completed or planned; five state highways link the province
internally; four main rail lines connect Guiyang with Guangxi, Sichuan, Kunming
and Hunan
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| Weather : summers range from warm and
wet to hot and dry; winters range from cool and misty to cold and dry (Guizhou
is at the intersection between tropical, temperate and desert-like climatic
zones).
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Mineral resources : aluminum, barite,
bauxite, coal, dolomite, iron, kaolin clay, limestone, magnesium, marble,
mercury, natural gas, phosphorus, silicon
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Major seaports : none (Guizhou is
landlocked); the "Southwest Sea Passage", a system of highways and rail lines
intended to link southwestern provinces, including Guizhou, to the South China
Sea, is partially complete
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