Guiyang city – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – last year experienced rapid growth in foreign trade, as well as stable foreign investment and innovative development of the service trade in its open economy.
During the ongoing Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, a promotional video about Guiyang city – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – is being shown at the Olympic Village.
Upon the arrival of the Spring Festival, which fell on Feb 1 this year, Guizhou's provincial capital of Guiyang received holiday greetings from mayors of its sister cities and friendship cities.
The State Council recently issued a document to support Southwest China's Guizhou province in becoming a reform demonstration area for China's Western Development Program.
Southwest China's Guizhou province generated total imports and exports worth 65.42 billion yuan ($10.13 billion) in 2021 – up 19.7 percent year-on-year and the best performance recorded since 2016, according to the latest statistics.
Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, rebranded itself as "Cool Guiyang" on Jan 16.