Guiyang

Guiyang
/gwee"yahng"/, n. Pinyin.
a city in and the capital of Guizhou province, in S China. 660,000.
Also, Kweiyang.

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or Kuei-yang

City (pop., 1999 est.: 1,320,566), capital of Guizhou province, southern China.

It is situated south of Chongqing. The Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties established military outposts there, but the city developed only after the Mongol invasion of southwestern China in 1279. Chinese settlement followed, and under the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties Guiyang became the seat of a prefecture. The Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) spurred its growth into a major provincial city and industrial centre.

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China
Wade-Giles romanization  Kuei-yang , also spelled  Kweiyang 

      city and capital of Guizhou (Kweichow) sheng (province), China. It is situated in the central part of Guizhou on the Nanming River, a headstream of the Wu River (Wu River system), which eventually joins the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) at Fuling in Chongqing (Chungking) municipality. Guiyang is a natural route centre, with comparatively easy access northward to both Chongqing and Sichuan province and northeast to Hunan province.

      During the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) period (Spring and Autumn Period) (770–476 BCE), the area around Guiyang was ruled by the Ke state and had close relationships with the other states on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The Sui dynasty (581–618 CE) had a commandery there, and the Tang dynasty (618–907) had a prefecture. They were, however, no more than military outposts, and it was not until the yuan (Mongol) invasion of southwest China in 1279 that the area was made the seat of an army and a “pacification office.” Han Chinese settlement in the area also began at that time, and, under the Ming (Ming dynasty) (1368–1644) and Qing (Qing dynasty) (1644–1911/12) dynasties, the town became the seat of a superior prefecture named Guiyang.

      Locally Guiyang was an important administrative and commercial centre with two distinct merchant communities, consisting of the Sichuanese, who lived in the “new” northern part of the city, and those from Hunan, Guangzhou (Canton) (Canton; in Guangdong), and Guangxi (Kwangsi) province, who lived in the “old” southern part. Nevertheless, until the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), Guiyang was no more than the capital of one of China's least-developed provinces. As elsewhere in the southwest, considerable economic progress was made under the special circumstances of wartime. Highway communications with Kunming in Yunnan province and with Chongqing (China's wartime provisional capital) and into Hunan were established. Work was begun on a railway from Liuzhou in Guangxi, and after 1949 this development was accelerated. Guiyang has subsequently become a major provincial city and industrial base. In 1959 the rail link to Guangxi was completed; other lines now also lead north to Chongqing, west to Kunming, and east to Changsha (in Hunan).

      Coal is mined in the locality of Guiyang and Anshun, and there are large thermal-power-generating plants at Guiyang and Duyun, supplying electricity for the city's industry. A large iron and steel plant in Guiyang supplies the local machinery-manufacturing industry. Large deposits of bauxite have been discovered to the north, and by the 1970s Guiyang had become a major producer of aluminum. Guiyang also manufactures industrial and mining equipment, as well as railway vehicles and equipment. It has a large chemical industry, producing fertilizers; a rubber industry, manufacturing automobile tires; and a growing high-technology sector, notably in aerospace manufacturing. Guiyang also has textile plants and makes glass, paper, and other consumer goods.

      The city is the cultural centre of Guizhou province and has a number of colleges and universities. Pop. (2002 est.) 1,372,600; (2007 est.) urban agglom., 3,662,000.

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