Guiyang achieves strong results in urban infrastructure construction

In recent years, Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has strengthened the construction of urban infrastructure as it seeks to build itself into a livable and smart city, according to the Guiyang municipal bureau of housing and urban-rural development.

Guiyang aims to become a livable and smart city. [Photo/ddcpc website]

The construction of transportation infrastructure in Guiyang has been accelerated. An intermediate ring road and bus rapid transit system have been built, as well as additional urban trunk roads such as Yansha Avenue, Dongzhan Road, Tongcheng Avenue, and Renmin Avenue.

In April 2021, with the opening of the entire 40-kilometer Guiyang Metro Line 2, Guiyang completed the construction of a basic urban rail transit system, which has helped to relieve traffic congestion.

Guiyang is also seeking to become a sponge city, a new-generation urban rainwater management concept which means that a city can function like a sponge and is able to adapt to environmental changes as well as respond to natural disasters caused by torrential rain.

Guiyang has built 114.25 square kilometers of sponge city infrastructure, accounting for 30 percent of the city's urban built-up area.

The city has also promoted the construction and renovation of sewage pipe networks, renovation of old communities, backstreets and alleys, and watershed management.

So far, the city has built or transformed 1,208 km of sewage pipe networks, the centralized sewage collection rate in the central urban area is over 74 percent, and the sewage treatment rate is 98 percent.