Guizhou’s journey is to the top of thousands of mountains!

This may be the fastest changing province in China

In these endless mountains

(Please watch in horizontal screen, sea of ​​clouds in Miaoling, photographer @陈沛亮)

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7 years

Its GDP could double

1 year

Its roads will extend 4,000 kilometers deep into the mountains.

1 day

It will probably add 70 5G signal base stations

(The highway data is the average of the highway growth data in the past 10 years, and the signal base station data is the average of the data in October 2023. The picture shows the Qingshui River Bridge connecting Kaiyang County and Weng'an County. Photographer @尹刚)

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Visit Guizhou once a year

You may not be able to keep up with its pace of updating

When the new becomes commonplace

Everything is changing

Nothing seems to have changed

It still retains the largest number of ethnic minority villages in China.

The festival customs of bullfighting, singing big songs, and dancing with the Lusheng are still continued.

There are still large areas of karst forests, Alsophila spinulosa forests and other original environments.

(In Zhaoxing Dong Village, Liping County, people set up a long table to welcome guests. Photographer: @陶洪)

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This is Guizhou now.

Countless mountains, countless time and space

New and old, fast and slow

Hold in your hands at the same time

The Internet also captured Guizhou at the fastest speed

Rolling up waves

The "Village Super" and "Village BA" competitions have just ended

The news of "the first summer resort province" spread quickly.

Now, its scenery, clothing, food, folk customs

Breaking the circle again and again

Enter more people's field of vision

(“Village BA” in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, photographer @尹刚)

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Guizhou is so rich in connotation

How was it made?

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Mountain building

Mountains in Guizhou

There is no end to it.

Wang Yangming, a thinker in the Ming Dynasty, once lamented

"The mountains of the world are concentrated in Yunnan and Guizhou"

Today, with the help of remote sensing technology

People have counted 1.258 million mountains in Guizhou.

(Please watch in horizontal mode, karst mountains in Libo County, Qiannan Prefecture, photographer @魏建)

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To build so many mountains

It takes a lot of time

Guizhou has a long geological history.

It has experienced four major orogenic movements.

The famous Fanjing Mountain

It was born during the first orogenic movement in Guizhou’s geological history.

About 900 million years ago

(Red Clouds and Golden Summit of Fanjing Mountain, photographer @何雄周)

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The earth's continuous folds and ups and downs

Make Guizhou as a whole higher in the west and lower in the east

The terrain is in the shape of three steps

There are also many folds and faults inside.

Laying the foundation for its rugged mountainous skeleton

(Guizhou location and topographic map, drawn by @Zheng Yi & Zhou Jinyu/Planet Research Institute)

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In the west, the majestic Wumeng Mountains

Like a high wall between Yunnan and Guizhou

(Please watch in horizontal mode, Wumeng Mountain is connected to other mountains, and the picture shows the sea of ​​clouds on the Wumeng grassland. Photographer: @杨晓)

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In the north, the Dalou Mountains are like the sea.

Loushan Pass on the main artery "Ten thousand peaks pierce the sky, and the middle is connected by a straight line"

(Loushan Pass is a pass on the main range of Dalou Mountain, straddling the main road between Sichuan and Guizhou. The Red Army won a great victory at Loushan Pass during the Long March. Photographer: @开心建)

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In the northeast, the Wuling Mountains are full of peaks.

The main peak, Fanjing Mountain, is the most famous

(Please watch in horizontal screen, Fanjing Mountain, photographer @李贵云)

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Miaoling in South Central

A series of mountains running north-south

(Sunrise at Leigong Mountain, the main peak of Miaoling, photographer @陈沛亮)

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But to form more mountains

Still need "billions of points" of accumulation

Guizhou was once an ocean.

And the oceans covered it for about 700 million years.

After the emergence, prosperity and demise of marine life

Leaving calcium debris on the seafloor

Consolidated into a large area of ​​soluble rock

Carbonate rock

(Huajiang Grand Canyon, the rocks on both sides of the mountain are grayish white, which is a typical carbonate rock. Photographer @魏建)

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About 62% of Guizhou

This kind of "fragile" rock is exposed

Water becomes weakly acidic after dissolving carbon dioxide

It can react chemically with this rock and dissolve it

The surface is thus more broken

(The picture shows that the carbon dioxide in the water reacts chemically with a carbonate rock (calcium carbonate), which is dissolved and carried away. Photographer: @李威男, tagged @张琪/星球研究院)

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Especially in Guizhou

Warm, rainy weather catalyzes this reaction

The uplift of the earth and the drastic downcutting of rivers have increased the dynamic conditions.

Therefore, a large area of ​​karst landforms has developed.

So above the surface

Peaks and forests spread into the sky

(Wanfenglin and rapeseed fields, photographer @焦潇翔)

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Beneath the Surface

The caves are complex

(Bijie Shuixi Cave, photographer @赵揭宇)

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When the cave roof collapses

These caves will become tiankengs, natural bridges, karst canyons, etc.

Revealing the rugged appearance on the surface

(After the cave roof collapses, it becomes a canyon. If the cave roof remains intact in the canyon, it becomes a natural bridge. Photographer @魏建)

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Nature has done its best in its intricate art

Pour the most effort into carving this land

There is no other province in China like Guizhou.

So thoroughly covered by mountains

Mountainous and hilly areas account for 95% of the province’s total area

Only 4% of the plains and 1% of the terraces remain.

This is an endless landscape.

It is a difficult obstacle to overcome.

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Over the mountains

Vast fertile land and convenient transportation

These conditions that allowed human settlements to flourish

All cut off by mountains

To take root here

You can only create your own living conditions

Livelihood is the most important issue

Flat dams are most suitable for farming

People dug canals and developed water conservancy

Maximize the potential of limited flat land

(Please watch in horizontal mode. The Baojiatun Water Conservancy Project in Anshun was built in the Ming Dynasty. It uses a diversion dam to divide the river into two parts, which not only increases the irrigation area but also effectively prevents floods. It is called the "mini Dujiangyan". Photographer: @水冬青)

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Gentle hills and slopes near water

They were also reclaimed into fertile fields.

In the heart of Moon Mountain in Congjiang County

Miao, Buyi, Dong

10,000 acres of land cultivated for generations was opened up on the gentle slope

It is more than 20 kilometers long

Jiabang Rice Terraces with a drop of 1 km

(Jiabang Terraces on Moon Mountain, located in Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, photographer @魏建)

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Terraced fields

Farmers raise fish and ducks

Fish and ducks prey on pests in rice fields

Fish and duck manure promote rice growth

This constitutes an efficient

“Rice-Fish-Duck Symbiotic System”

(People in Tang'an Dong Village harvest rice, photographer @赵高翔)

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The rare flat land in the mountains should be left for farmland

People try to reduce the floor space of their houses as much as possible.

Semi-stilted buildings are mostly used in Southeast Guizhou.

The bottom half of the stilt house is suspended in the air and the other half is placed on the hillside.

It is moisture-proof and saves limited land space

Perfectly adapted to the ruggedness of the mountains

(Distant and close views of semi-stilted buildings, photographers @AKZUI, Huang Xiaohai)

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Today, cities in Guizhou are still trying to use limited land

To accommodate more people

(Please watch in horizontal mode, Guiyang city, photographer @刘林鑫)

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that's all

People have created countless homes in the mountains and wild ridges.

Unfortunately, they are separated into different spaces.

But the more blocked

The more we need to connect with the outside world

(Guiyang Qianchun Interchange, a multi-layered interchange in the valley on the west side of Qianling Mountain, photographer @江南君)

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More than 2,000 years ago

The Qin Dynasty opened up the "Five-foot Road" in the Wumeng Mountains on the northwestern edge of Guizhou

Although the road is only wide enough for one horse

But Guizhou began to connect with the Central Plains

More than 600 years ago

The Ming Dynasty recognized that Guizhou was an important channel into Yunnan.

He vigorously improved the official post roads from Guizhou to the surrounding four provinces.

Guiyang became the center of the post road

Guizhou is internally connected

(Sketch of the ancient post road in Guizhou during the Ming Dynasty, drawn by @Zhou Jinyu/Planet Research Institute)

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About 300 years ago

The Qing Dynasty rectified the Chishui River

Merchants from all over the world gathered along the way

(Maotai Town on the Chishui River. After the Chishui River became an important channel for Sichuan salt to enter Guizhou in the Qing Dynasty, Maotai subsequently developed into a water transportation hub. Image source: @Visual China)

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And more efforts are made among the people

People have to bear the burden of life

I have to climb over the mountain in front of me and cross the river in front of my house.

Ge Jing, a Guizhou native in the Ming Dynasty

It took thirty years to build a stone arch bridge with all the money spent

After more than 400 years, it is still as strong as ever

(Gejing Bridge, Mao Yisheng called it "the crown of bridges in the southwest", photographer @李贵云)

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On the cliff beside Wujiang River in Yanhe County

Trackers are on the steep and narrow ancient towpath

Step on the stone road and move forward slowly

Use loud calls to pull Sichuan salt into Guizhou

(The towpath on the Wujiang Gorge in Yanhe County, photographer @李贵云)

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In Shibanhe Village, Bijie

From 1999 to 2002

Villagers carved a 470-meter-long hanging road on the vertical cliff

Ending the history of only one narrow path leading out of the mountain

(Bijie Jiudongtian Cliff-hanging Highway, image source: @Visual China)

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Build roads through mountains and bridges over rivers

This is the answer written by Guizhou people from ancient times to the present

Mountains gave birth to trekkers

It brings light and strength to the children of the mountains

Give opportunities and courage to those who survive in desperate situations

Guizhou is a blessed land for the brave

In the early days of the Long March, the Red Army suffered repeated setbacks

The original route to Xiangxi

The Kuomintang army had already surrounded

Everyone is thinking, "Where should the Red Army go?"

At this critical moment concerning the life and death of the Red Army

Mao Zedong suggested to the Party Central Committee: Turn the troops to Guizhou

This is the only option for the Red Army to escape from danger.

Among all the enemy armies, the Guizhou Army was the weakest.

The Red Army might be able to defeat them one by one and turn the situation around

(On January 1, 1935, the CPC Central Committee held a Politburo meeting in Houchang, Weng'an County, Guizhou, and determined the route for the troops to turn to Guizhou. Please slide to view the Houchang meeting site and Houchang Ancient Town, a major commercial town in history. Photographers @李贵云、陆伟平)

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So, on the banks of the turbulent Wujiang River

In the magnificent Dalou Mountain

Facing the natural dangers such as the Chishui River

Red Army PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Use the greatest courage and the most flexible strategy

Winning wars one after another

Finally got rid of the enemy's encirclement

(The scene of the Red Army's Long March restored by Guizhou Red Ribbon Museum, picture source @Guizhou "Red Ribbon" (Long March Digital Technology Art Museum))

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The Red Army cleared the fog in Guizhou

From setbacks to success

Guizhou's history has since been closely linked to the word "turning point"

Throughout the Long March

The Red Army's footprints covered 70% of Guizhou's county-level administrative regions

Guizhou became the place where the Red Army had the longest activities

One of the provinces with the widest activity area and the most major incidents

Bringing the spark of revolution to the vast areas of Guizhou

This land has experienced many trials

The Long March spirit was forged

Always have the courage to change the world

(The history of the Long March has had a profound impact on Guizhou. Today, Guizhou is still drawing strength from this red road. The picture shows the Guizhou "Red Ribbon" Museum, the country's first immersive digital experience museum with the theme of the Long March. The picture comes from @Guizhou "Red Ribbon" (Long March Digital Technology Art Museum))

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Changing Guizhou is indeed a long march

There are so many corners here

Need to be connected

Before the founding of New China

Guizhou has only 1,950 kilometers of open roads.

Ten years later, roads were built to every county.

About forty years later, every town had a road.

(The winding road on Moon Mountain connects every corner, photographer @魏建)

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2001

Guizhou has its first expressway

2015

The expressway mileage increased to 5,128 kilometers

Connected 88 districts and counties

Became the first province in the west to have highways connecting all counties

(The Spark Bridge on the Ziyun County to Wangmo County highway has a U-shaped ramp designed for U-turns, so that vehicles on both sides can share the highway exit on one side, reducing engineering difficulty and construction costs. Photographer @尹刚)

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2019

Hardened roads increased to 80,000 kilometers

Connected 39,900 village groups

Realized the great connectivity of "every village connected by hardened road"

(Around the Beipanjiang Bridge, every village is connected by roads, photographer @尹刚)

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Now

28,000 highway bridges span the natural chasm

210,000 kilometers of roads winding through the mountains

The post roads, towpaths, and mountain roads of the past

Today's railways, waterways, and highways

Ancient floating bridges, suspension bridges, wind and rain bridges, and stone arch bridges

Brand new beam bridges, cable-stayed bridges, suspension bridges, and flyovers

Across the past and present, because the same goal appears

(The three bridges on Hongfeng Lake in Guiyang, the Sanchao Bridge in Chong'an, and the Shikong Bridge in Zhenyuan Ancient Town, photographers @尹刚,陈沛亮, 李云鹏)

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Generation after generation

Climbing over mountains

The former "most barren land in the world"

Becoming a "high-speed plain"

Looking back

It is a kind of relief that "the boat has passed through thousands of mountains"

But Guizhou’s journey is not over yet

People also need to face a broader life

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Mountain

Mountains and hills account for 95% of Guizhou's area

Owned by Guizhou people

Only mountains

The mountain is the way out

Even though the ground is not flat,

As long as you live hard and create continuously

You can turn high mountains, mountains, and dangerous mountains

All become backers

Mountains are the support of farmers

People turned the gentle hills into tea plantations

Guizhou has more than 7 million mu of tea plantations

The planting area is slightly lower than Yunnan, ranking second in the country

Cultivated famous teas such as Duyun Maojian, Meitan Cuiya, and Leishan Yinqiu

(Meitan Tea Sea, picture source @Visual China)

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More and more Guizhou products are opening up the market

Guizhou ranks first in the country in terms of pepper and prickly pear cultivation scale

Sansui duck, Libo honey pomelo, Guiyang zheergen, Xiuwen kiwi fruit, etc.

There are more than 100 agricultural products with geographical indications

(Farmers in Weining, Bijie are harvesting marigolds, photographer @罗大富)

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People take advantage of the clear mountain rivers and warm and humid environment

Fermenting grains to perfection

There are nationally renowned brands such as Moutai, Xijiu, Zhenjiu, and Dongjiu

(The Chishui River is also a wine river. The picture shows the Chishui River in the rainy season. The soil formed by the weathering of the red rock layer enters the river, making the river red, hence the name "Chishui". Photographer @杨建)

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The mountainous landscape has more aspects

Profoundly shaping Guizhou's industries

The steep mountains contain abundant energy

People built hydroelectric power stations in the canyon.

Guizhou's hydropower installed capacity ranks fourth in the country

(Zunyi Wujiangdu Hydropower Station, photographer @尹刚)

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Take advantage of low water and electricity prices and a cool climate

It is possible to develop big data industries that consume a lot of electricity and require heat dissipation

Huawei, Tencent, and Apple's data centers have settled in Guizhou

Driving Guizhou's digital economy growth rate to rank first in the country for seven consecutive years

(The data center in Gui'an New District is surrounded by data centers of Huawei, Tencent, Apple, NetEase, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and other companies. Photographer: Wu Dongjun)

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People also use karst peak depressions

Install the large astronomical device "China Sky Eye"

(The distant and close views of the Sky Eye, the "China Sky Eye" is located in a depression among peaks, photographer @魏建)

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On the banks of the classical landscape of Duyun

Build the largest film and television city in Southwest China

(Duyun Qinhan Film and Television City, where many costume dramas such as "Celebrating Yu Nian", "Nirvana in Fire 2" and "The Rise of Phoenixes" were filmed. Image source: Visual China)

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Among the Millions of Mountains

Find a million ways out

And so many mountains

It is a natural tourist resource.

According to official statistics

Guizhou has 3,221 mountains for tourists to visit.

Assuming you climb one mountain every day

It takes 9 years to see all of them.

Only in the first half of 2023

300 million people came to Guizhou

Bringing in over 340 billion yuan in tourism revenue

Equivalent to 70% of Guiyang’s GDP in 2022

(Huangguoshu Waterfall, photographer @饶颖)

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When mountains become Guizhou's support

People value the existence of mountains more

In Guizhou, there has been a tradition of planting Feng Shui forests around villages since ancient times.

Prevent natural disasters such as soil erosion

(Please watch in horizontal mode, Basha Miao Village in Guizhou is hidden in the dense forest, photographer @王伟)

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People devoutly painted patterns of birds, beasts, fish, insects, trees, flowers and plants.

Printed on national costumes

Expressing awe for the simplicity of nature

(The first picture shows women in Baibei Miao Village painting batik patterns, and the second picture shows a batik workshop in Zhaoxing Dong Village. Photographers: @水冬青、吕威)

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There used to be a vast karst landform and large-scale reclamation here.

It has become the largest area of ​​rocky desertification in China.

Guizhou now ranks first in China in terms of the area of ​​returning farmland to forest

The area of ​​rocky desertification control ranks first in the country

Excellent ecological environment has become Guizhou's biggest advantage

(Xiaoqikong in Libo, photographer @杨捷)

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It is the only "mountain park province" in China.

Whether it is a solitary peak, a peak forest, or a peak cluster

Or tiankeng, canyon, cave

The mountain landscape can be seen all at once

(Luodian Daxiaojing karst landform, photographer @魏建)

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It is one of the first national "ecological civilization experimental zones"

13% of the province's area is protected nature.

Such as the Mayang River Nature Reserve, the "Paradise of Black Leaf Monkeys"

(Black leaf monkeys in Mayang River. Most primates like to live in the forest canopy, but black leaf monkeys live in caves at night, so they are suitable for survival in Guizhou. Photographer: Xie Jianguo)

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Such as Weining Caohai, the "home of black-necked cranes"

(Black-necked cranes on the sea of ​​grass in Weining, photographer @尹刚)

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There are 45 national wetland parks

4 "World Natural Heritage Sites", the largest number in China

(Please watch in horizontal mode, Shibing Yuntaishan, one of the four "World Natural Heritage Sites" in Guizhou, photographer @尹刚)

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Today, more than 20% of the country's plant and animal species

In Guizhou, a land area that accounts for less than 2% of the country’s total

Live at ease

(Guizhou golden monkey and Alsophila spinulosa, Alsophila spinulosa is a rare tree-shaped fern plant, photographers @Cui Duoying, He Xiongzhou)

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People climb over mountains and rely on them

Pursuing a better life

We also respect and protect mountains.

Protecting the leisurely mountain life

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Who created such a Guizhou?

There is more than one protagonist

It is hundreds of millions of years of geological activity.

Gave Guizhou vast mountains

And everyone who comes to this land

They had worked hard to open up

Once bravely defeated

(During the Long March, the Red Army won many battles in Guizhou, including "Crossing the Wujiang River", "Loshanguan Victory", "Four Crossings of the Chishui River", and reversed the situation with difficulty. The picture shows the Long March scene restored in "Red Ribbon", the picture source @Guizhou "Red Ribbon" (Long March Science and Technology Art Museum))

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The courage to climb mountains and cross ridges

The courage to survive in desperate situations

Will rely on the mountain to protect the wisdom of the mountain

Melted into the blood of Guizhou people

(The red building in the picture is the "Red Ribbon" Long March Digital Technology Art Museum. Today's Guizhou people still gain strength to move forward by looking back at history. Behind the "Red Ribbon" is the Guiyang Longdongbao Airport, and in front is the Colorful Guizhou City Scenic Area. Photographer @张晋铭)

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Breaking the barrier of mountains

Find the mountain's treasure

Today, Guizhou is no longer as rugged as it used to be.

But the surrounding mountains still make people have many associations.

I remember the wheels of the road builders rolling over their sweat

I remember the travelers setting out in the morning light and arriving under the starlight.

Thinking of the road I have walked in just a few minutes

How many Guizhou people's lives have been shackled

Guizhou no longer has to worry about these old difficulties.

Even if there are endless mountains

Endless rivers blocking the way

There will always be endless people

Start an infinite journey

(Sunlight shines through a hole on the Getu River, photographer @尹刚)

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This article was created by

Written by : Wenjie Edited by : Xueli, Director

Image : Grateful Heart Map : Zhou Jinyu

Design : Zhang Qi Review : Li Chuyang, Zhang Xing, Lushumao, Xintian

Cover Photographer : Greatwj, Shui Dongqing, He Xiongzhou

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