Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, was listed among China's third batch of cross-border e-commerce pilot areas in 2018. Since then, cross-border e-commerce has become Guiyang's main approach to maintain stability in foreign trade.
The Guiyang Foreign Affairs Office – based in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – beefed up its external publicity considerably throughout the course of 2021.
In 2021, the raging COVID-19 pandemic continued to produce an adverse impact on the international movement of people, putting many international cooperation programs on hold.
Guiyang is located in the southwest of China, and Fort Worth sits in the south of the United States. The straight distance between the two cities exceeds 10,000 kilometers, spanning the whole Pacific Ocean.
Guiyang and the Guian New Area set four objectives for development, namely blazing a new trail in the development of western China in the new era, breaking new ground in rural revitalization, seizing new opportunities in the digital economy, and making new ecological progress.
Recently, Guiyang's districts, city and counties have held Party congresses successively to set tasks for the next five years, and will work together to pursue high-quality development and achieve Guiyang's Five-Year Action Plan goals.