Guiyang 贵阳

Overview

Chinese Name: 贵阳
English Name: Guiyang；Kuei-yang；Kweiyang
Other Name: Lincheng林城；Zhucheng筑城
Abbreviation: 筑 Zhu
Zip Code: 55 00 00
Population: 6.102 million

Brief Introduction

Guiyang 贵阳 is a prefecture-level city and provincial capital of Guizhou Province, approved by The State Council as one of the important central cities in southwest China, an important regional innovation center, and an important ecological leisure and tourism city in China.

Guiyang is the political, economic, cultural, science, and education in Guizhou, the transportation center, important transportation and communication hub in southwest China, the industrial base and business travel service center, one of the national comprehensive railway hubs, is also a state-level big data industry agglomeration area, call center, and service outsourcing agglomeration area, big data exchange, data center cluster areas.

By 2020, The city has jurisdiction over 6 districts, 3 counties, and 1 county-level city, with a total area of 8,034 square kilometers. By the end of 2021, Guiyang had 6,102,300 permanent residents. In 2021, Guiyang’s GDP will reach 471.104 billion yuan.

Famous Attractions in Guiyang

Guiyang is located in the “Golden Triangle” 金三角 tourism area of Guizhou province, with rich and colorful tourism resources. It has developed 32 scenic spots involving mountains, rivers, canyons, lakes, karst, caves, waterfalls, hot springs, primitive forests, culture, ancient city pavilions, and other tourist resources.

Some special scenic spots in Guiyang

Hongfeng Lake Scenic Spot 红枫湖风景名胜区
Guizhou Lingshan Park 黔灵山公园
Baihua Lake Scenic Spot 百花湖风景名胜区
Huaxi Scenic Spot 花溪风景名胜区
Xifeng Scenic Spot 息烽风景名胜区
Xiuwen Yangming Scenic Spot 修文阳明风景名胜区
Xiangzhigou Scenic Spot 香纸沟风景名胜区
Acacia River Scenic Spot 相思河风景名胜区
Qingzhen Undercurrent Scenic area 清镇暗流风景名胜区
Kaiyang Scenic Spot 开阳风景名胜区
Qing yan town 青岩古镇
Nanjiang Grand Canyon Scenic area 南江大峡谷景区
Hongfeng Lake Scenic Spot 红枫湖旅游风景区
Tian he tan Scenic Area 天河潭景区

Famous Universities in Guiyang

Guiyang is the education center of Guizhou province, the most colleges, and universities in the province, Guiyang has 18 higher vocational colleges, 11 public colleges, the independent colleges 7, 538 primary schools, 260 junior high schools, high schools 75, 33 secondary vocational schools, 10 special education schools, 2 work-and-study schools, 2 adults higher schools, 35 of common colleges and universities.

List of universities and colleges in Guiyang

Guizhou university 贵州大学
Guizhou Normal University 贵州师范大学
Guizhou Medical University 贵州医科大学
The Guizhou University of Chinese Medicine 贵州中医药大学
Guizhou University for Nationalities 贵州民族大学
Guizhou University of Finance and Economics 贵州财经大学
Guiyang institute 贵阳学院
Guizhou Institute of Technology 贵州理工学院
Guizhou Business School 贵州商学院
Guizhou Police College 贵州警察学院
Guizhou Normal University 贵州师范学院

Diet of Guiyang

The essence of Guiyang cuisine lies in affordable and delicious food, which truly meets the needs of the public and allows every ordinary person to enjoy the most real wealth given by food to human beings. A variety of hot pots, stir-fried dishes, noodles, and barbecues will give visitors a taste of the Guiyang people’s enthusiasm.

Some specialty snacks in Guiyang

Sausage noodle 肠旺面
Huaxi beef powder 花溪牛肉粉
Silk doll 丝娃娃
Tofu Mariko 豆腐圆子
Roasted brain flower 烤脑花
Roasted loin 烤大排
Hot and sour hot 酸辣烫
Bean rice pot 豆米火锅
Sautéed Diced Chicken with Chili Pepper 辣子鸡
Yellow Jialing 黄粑
Bean paste nest 豆沙窝
Cake Jialing porridge 糕粑稀饭

Transportation in Guiyang

Aviation: Guiyang has an international airport: Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport贵阳龙洞堡国际机场. The airport is located in the eastern suburbs of Guiyang, 11 kilometers away from the city center. Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport is currently a 4E level airport.

Port: Guiyang has three wharves 码头, namely Kaiyang Port开阳港, Luo Wang He洛旺河, and Long Shui龙水. Luo Wang He has two 500-ton cargo berths and Longshui has one 500-ton passenger berth. Xifeng Port is invested by enterprises to build a freight terminal, designed annual cargo volume of 500,000 tons.