Leaving Kaiyang was Chen's childhood dream. However, in 2011, he gave up a high-paying job, returned from Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangzhou province, to Kaiyang, and embarked on an entrepreneurial journey from nothing.
Kaiyang county in Guiyang city – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – worked hard to promote its wide-ranging development last year.
In 2023, Kaiyang county in Guiyang, continued to promote a new people-centered type of urbanization by enhancing infrastructure construction and improving the county's layout and functions.
In 2023, Kaiyang county in Guiyang sought to boost tourism by carrying out a series of entertainment projects, turning the tourism industry into a new engine for the county's economic development.
Long hailed as the "Green Phosphorus Capital of China," Kaiyang county has witnessed flourishing development in the phosphorus chemical industry. However, in recent years, the traditional phosphorus chemical industry, primarily focusing on the production of yellow phosphorus and fertilizers, has faced challenges such as low added value in its products, high energy consumption, and suboptimal industrial chain structure.
A total of 16 agricultural products from Guizhou province were included in the third group of nationally-renowned and superior new agricultural products in 2023, which was recently released by the Quality and Safety Center of Agricultural and Rural Affairs Department. Among them was Kaiyang county's green tea.