Baiyun to become Guiyang's new city center by 2025

Baiyun district in Guiyang, the capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has created a preliminary plan to develop itself into the new city center of the provincial capital by 2025, according to a government meeting held in the district on Jan 8.

The session outlined the district's development goals for the next five years and 15 years.

From 2021 to 2025, Baiyun district will develop into the new city center of the provincial capital. It will also build a modern industry-city integration demonstration zone, a modern new city, an area of high-quality modern education, a modern innovation zone for social governance and a regional open development hub.

The district will strive to achieve gross regional production of about 40 billion yuan ($6.17 billion) by 2025, with a permanent population of about 500,000.

By 2035, the district will basically achieve the long-term goal of socialist modernization, with total economic output and per capita gross regional production quadrupled compared with 2020. It will strive to achieve a total economic output of more than 100 billion yuan.

The district will make efforts in five aspects to achieve these goals, including accelerating the construction of a modern industry-city integration demonstration zone and promoting high-quality economic development. It will also accelerate the construction of a modern new city and promote urban-rural integration development, accelerate the construction of a high-quality modern education zone and optimize education resources.

Efforts will also be made to accelerate the construction of a modern innovation zone for social governance to offer more convenience for residents and accelerate the construction of a regional open development hub to broaden opening-up.