In 2019, Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, had a total economic volume of 400 billion yuan ($56.33 billion), with an overall stable economy.
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic eases, Guizhou province is encouraging service industry related companies to resume work by launching supporting policies.
According to a business environment assessment report conducted by Xiamen University and the Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, the business environment of Southwest China's Guizhou province in 2019 has improved significantly compared with 2018.
The Guiyang development and reform commission in Southwest China's Guizhou province has taken measures to respond to the need of economic development while preventing and controlling the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The Shubo Avenue (Big Data Expo Avenue) in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, was recently selected as one of the top 10 examples in China for demonstrating the creation of a smart city, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
Southwest China's Guizhou province built 8,116 km of roadways in 2019.
A total of 1.24 million rural residents in Southwest China's Guizhou province cast off poverty last year, lowering the poverty rate to 0.85 percent, the provincial government said Wednesday.
Guiyang has a good eco-environment. It has been approved exclusively within the country to build a national ecological civilization demonstration zone.
In 2018, Guiyang devoted itself to development and progress while maintaining stability and deepening supply-side structural reform.
The city of Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, enjoys a unique geographic location in the middle of Guizhou province, neighboring Yunnan province to the west, Sichuan province to the north, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region to the south and Hunan province to the east.