Guiyang

Guiyang
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: China Meteorological Administration

Guìyáng Shì
贵阳市
Lincheng
Guiyang

Guiyang downtown buildings

Guiyang

Coordinates

26 ° 35 ' N , 106 ° 43' E Coordinates: 26 ° 35 ' N , 106 ° 43' E

Location of Guiyang in Guizhou, China

Basic data

Country

People's Republic of China

region

Southwest China

province

Guizhou

ISO 3166-2

CN-GZ

status

District-free city

structure

6 city districts, 3 districts, 1 urban district

height

1275 m

surface

8046 km²

Residents

4,696,800 (2016)

density

583.7 Ew. / km²

Post Code

550000

Telephone code

(+86) 851

Time zone

China Standard Time (CST)
UTC +8

License Plate

贵 A

Website

www.gygov.gov.cn

Guiyang City

The city of Guiyang ( Chinese 貴陽市 / 贵阳市 , Pinyin Guìyáng Shì ) is the capital of the Guizhou Province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China . The city is also called Lincheng ( 林城 , Línchéng - "forest city").

location

Guiyang is located in the middle of Guizhou Province in the east of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau on the north bank of the Nanming River , which is a tributary of the Wu Jiang . The city is located at an altitude of 1,070 meters above sea level. NN in a plateau surrounded by mountains.

Administrative structure

The city of Guiyang is made up of six city districts (two of which form the "inner city"), four districts and one urban district:

City district Nanming (南明区), 89 km², approx. 490,000 inhabitants (2003), "inner city", seat of the city government;
Yunyan district (云岩区), 68 km², approx. 560,000 inhabitants (2003), "inner city";
District Guanshanhu (观山湖区);
Huaxi district (花溪区), 986 km², approx. 330,000 inhabitants (2003);
Wudang district (乌当区), 962 km², approx. 290,000 inhabitants (2003);
Baiyun district (白云区), 260 km², approx. 170,000 inhabitants (2003);
Circle Kaiyang (开阳县) 2,026 km², about 420,000 inhabitants (2003);
Xiuwen district (修文县), 1,076 km², approx. 290,000 inhabitants (2003);
Xifeng District (息烽县), 1,037 km², approx. 250,000 inhabitants (2003);
City of Qingzhen (清镇市), 1,492 km², approx. 500,000 inhabitants, "urban district" within Guiyang.

climate

Guiyang has a subtropical , humid monsoon climate with mild winters and warm summers. The annual average temperature is 15.6 ° C.

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Guiyang

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	9.2	10.6	16.5	21.4	24.4	26.3	28.5	28.4	25.3	20.5	15.6	11.4	O	19.9
Min. Temperature (° C)	2.5	3.5	7.8	12.5	16.4	18.7	20.7	20.0	17.4	13.3	8.7	4.4	O	12.2

Precipitation ( mm )	17th	20th	32	103	167	213	156	133	96	97	53	22nd	Σ	1.109

Rainy days ( d )	13	13	14th	16	19th	17th	15th	15th	13	16	14th	11	Σ	176

Source: China Meteorological Administration

population

Ethnic classification

At the 2000 census, Guiyang had 3,718,449 residents.

Name of the people	Residents	proportion of
Han	3,144,530	84.57%
Miao	226.072	6.08%
Bouyei	183,069	4.92%
Tujia	30.127	0.81%
ethnicity not defined	29,439	0.79%
Yi	29,282	0.79%
Dong	20,892	0.56%
Gelao	15,455	0.42%
Bai	9,359	0.25%
Hui	8,327	0.22%
Manchu	5,626	0.15%
Zhuang	4,399	0.12%
Sui	3,204	0.09%
Mongols	3,080	0.08%
Li	2,044	0.05%
Yao	610	0.02%
Mulam	409	0.01%
Others	2,525	0.07%

Population development of the agglomeration

In 2017, just under 3 million people lived in the actual urban settlement area of the city. The rest of the population lives in the rural area. Due to the ongoing urbanization, 4.2 million inhabitants are expected in the agglomeration by 2035.

year	population
1950	250,000
1960	425,000
1970	722,000
1980	883,000
1990	1,080,000
2000	1,860,000
2010	2,496,000
2017	3,048,000

history

There was an urban settlement in the area of today's Guiyang city as early as the Han Dynasty . The city itself was founded as a military base in 1283 during the Yuan Dynasty . Her name at the time Shunyuan (順元) means loyal to the yuan .

During the Ming Dynasty , the city was called Xinggui and was surrounded by the city wall, which is still partially preserved today. The city was given its current name Guiyang in the early years of the Chinese Republic in 1913.

Guiyang has been a city since 1941.

Attractions

Literary pavilion

The "pavilion des literati" (Jiaxiu Lou) is a 20 meter high building in the city center, which was built in 1689.

Qianling Mountain

From the 1,300 meter high Qianling Mountain (黔灵山 Qianling Shan) you have a good view over the city of Guiyang. The Hongfu Temple , which was founded in the Qing Dynasty in 1672, stands on it.

Qianlingshan Park

The Qianlingshan Park (Qianlingshan Gongyuan 黔灵公园) is located 1.5 kilometers northwest of the city and covers an area of about 300 hectares.

The Temple of Great Fortune (Hongfu Si) is located on Qiangling Mountain, behind which there is an obelisk dedicated to the victims of the civil war.

For several years, the Guomindang held Generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, who were involved in the capture of Chiang Kai-shek ( Xi'an Incident ) in 1937, in the Grotto of the Unicorn (Qianlin Dong) .

Economy and Transport

Guiyang skyline

The industrial city of Guiyang is the economic center of Guizhou Province. The GNP per capita in 2003 was ¥ 11728 (approx. 1200 euros). The Guizhou Cloud Big Data Industry Development (GCBD) company is based in Guiyang . Among other things, the iCloud data of Chinese Apple customers is stored there.

Industry

Guiyang is located in the midst of important raw material deposits. Mining is therefore an important branch of industry. Guiyang is also an important location for the processing industry, such as the iron and steel industry (especially non-ferrous metals, aluminum), artificial fertilizer production and mechanical engineering. There are also companies in the textile industry. A large part of the electricity is generated by many hydropower plants on the surrounding rivers.

Subway

Lines 1, 2 and 3 of the Guiyang Metro

In 2010, the State Development and Reform Commission approved the construction of Guiyang Subway . The first section of Line 1 was opened in December 2017, followed by the second in December 2018. The long-term plans envisage a total of nine lines with a total length of 467 km and 258 stations; In addition to the opened Line 1, four more are under construction or in planning as of summer 2019.

railroad

Guiyang is connected by railroad lines to Chongqing (463 kilometers), Kunming (639 kilometers) and Changsha (953 kilometers).

Street

Guiyang is the center of the Guizhou Province road network. There is also an expressway from Guiyang to the port city of Beihai in Guangxi.

air

The Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport is a major hub in southwest China, mainly for domestic flights.

Science and culture

Guiyang's largest secondary educational institution is Guizhou University and Technical University , the predecessor of which was founded in 1902. The university has 20 faculties and today around 32,000 full-time students. In addition, one of the three locations for the geology department within the Chinese Academy of Sciences is located in Guiyang .