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Guiyang’s Jinyang district 贵阳金阳区 (Guanshanhu 观山湖区)

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Guanshanhu District (Jinyang district)

from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanshanhu_District , image uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9527381711/in/set-72157634956626472/

Guanshanhu District (simplified Chinese: 观山湖区; traditional Chinese: 觀山湖區; pinyin: Guānshānhú Qū) formerly the Jinyang New Area (JYND; simplified Chinese: 金阳新区; traditional Chinese: 金陽新區; pinyin: Jīnyáng Xīnqū) is a district located northwest of the city centre of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China. The city centre itself is surrounded by mountains and lush forests Guanshanhu District is situated beyond the city’s mountains on high-plains interspersed with rolling hills at an average altitude of 1,400 metres (4,600 ft).[1]

As a new city district of Guiyang, the Guanshanhu District is focused on government, finance, real estate, high-tech, transportation, aerospace and commercial services. Since its inception in 2001, through the end of 2008, 43 billion yuan was invested in the Guanshanhu District. Since 2006 the Guanshanhu District has been home to Guiyang’s Municipal Government Administration and CCP Offices.

While the population of the Guanshanhu District more than doubled in the 5 years between 2004 and 2008 from 70,000 to 180,000, a combination of Guiyang’s attractive residency policy and the habitation of many of the district’s larger residential developments resulted in further large-scale growth by the end of 2012 as the district’s population reached an estimated +220,000 residents. Guanshanhu’s population is anticipated to continue to climb exponentially over the next 5 years as a majority of Guizhou provincial and Guiyang municipal government agencies, many major local employers as well as several large national and international corporations relocate to the district in concert with continual development and upgrading of the area’s transportation and logistics infrastructure, linking the district to the regional and national transportation grids.[2]

The Guanshanhu District has a well-developed road transportation network with a sophisticated grid of signalized multi-lane roadways capable of adequately addressing anticipated future heavy vehicular traffic flows as well as providing convenient access to the Guiyang–Zunyi Expressway, the Guiyang Outer Ring Road and Second Ring Road highways, and stations serving the national hi-speed rail and city light-rail networks currently under construction. The Gui-Zun Expressway, the Guiyang Outer Ring Road and Guiyang Second Ring Road highways pass through the district and are part of the national trunk highway system. These divided multi-lane motorways provide the district with rapid vehicular access to the city center, Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport, and all points within Guizhou including the cities of Zunyi, Anshun, and Kaili, as well as the large regional cities of Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Guilin,Changsha, Nanning, and Guangzhou.

Guanshanhu District is home to the JinYang Regional Bus Terminal, the largest coach and bus terminal in Guizhou Province, servicing over 7 million passengers annually.

The national high-speed railway network will be accessible through Guiyang North Station, situated in the eastern area of the Guanshanhu District and currently under construction, with estimated opening in 2015. Guiyang North Station will connect Guiyang with Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Guangzhou, Changsha,Wuhan, Shanghai, and Beijing via 100 daily CRH bullet trains. Guiyang is currently building a three-line urban light rails system with the city’s fline-1 of the system anticipated to be operational in 2015, connecting the Guanshanhu District to the older, established Guiyang central business district, several established high-density inner-city residential neighborhoods, and the airport.[3]

Large Projects and Important Employers in Guanshanhu District

  • The Municipal Administration Center of the Guiyang city government employs 20,000 people and is adjacent to the sprawling Guanshanhu Park in the district’s center.[2]
  • In 2009 the Shanghai-based Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) signed a 8.2 billion yuan deal with the Guiyang City government to build a 5 square kilometer manufacturing base in the neighboring Baiyun District which will not only make aircraft engines but also develop new energy devices, electric vehicles and auto parts.[4]
  • Guiyang International Exhibition and Convention Center opened in 2011, with 2 million square meters of space, and can host conventions with as many as 20,000 visitors.[5] The Convention and Exhibition Center annually hosts the Global Eco-Forum Guiyang jointly sponsored by the Chinese Government and the United Nations. The Conference center also is adjacent to the new 366-room Hyatt Regency Guiyang, several smaller domestic hotels, and the Zhongtian Super Mall, a 330,000 square meter (3.5 million square feet) multi-level shopping center scheduled to open in 2014.[6]
  • Guanshanhu District is home to several modern international standard hotels which have opened in the past 3 years, including the Hyatt Regency Hotel Guiyang, the Renaissance Hotel Guiyang, the 306-room New World Hotel Guiyang, and the 351-room Empark Grand Hotel Guiyang.
  • The Guiyang Olympic Sports Center in Guanshanhu District opened in 2011 and was host to the 9th Chinese Traditional Games for Ethnic Nationalities[7] The Olympic Center includes a 52,000 seat stadium which is home to the Guizhou Renhe Football Club of the Chinese Super League, a swimming and diving hall, and 17 tennis courts. The total area is 289,000 square meters.[8]
  • Century Town in the district’s south is the largest planned urban development in the district with 40,000 residences and the Century Town shopping complex with 3 interconnected shopping malls and several office buildings.[9]
  • The Guiyang North Station high speed rail station and adjoining marshaling yards are scheduled to open for service in 2015 and will offer passenger and freight service on CRH bullet trains that travel at average speeds of 300 km/hr. These bullet trains will travel from Guiyang to Chongqing in 1.5 hours, Chengdu in 3 hours, Guangzhou in 3 hours, Shanghai in 8 hours, and Beijing in 9 hours.[10]
  • China West Technology Park (CWTP) is a large hi-tech office park composed of seven class-A multi-use buildings comprising 174,000 square meters (1.8 million sq.ft.) of office, lab, meeting, residential, hotel, dining and retail space. It is anticipated that within 3 years of opening in 2012, between 6,000 and 10,000 workers will be employed in CWTP. Current tenants include the regional head offices ofChina Mingsheng Bank, Sinopec, and the Guizhou Province Talent City, a provincial-scale job market and training center JV between the Shanghai Municipal Government agency and the Guiyang High-Tech Development Zone administration. CWTP initial occupancy began in late 2012.[11]
  • In 2011, Guizhou Provincial General Hospital announced the location of a provincial medical center campus in the Guanshanhu District, north of the City’s government administrative complex. The new medical campus is anticipated for completion in 2015-2016 and will be a large-scale medical and research center employing over 10,000 physician and staff.
  • The Marriott International Corporation opened the 340-room Renaissance Guiyang Hotel in February 2012. The hotel adjoins Guanshanhu Park and is also adjacent to the Municipal Government Administration Complex.[12]
  • Guanshanhu District is home to the regional headquarters of several large companies including Chinalco, China Mobile, China Southern Coal, China Datang Power, China Hydro Engineering, China Southern Power Grid, and Kweichow Maotai, the distillers of Maotai, the national alcohol of China.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Guiyang City Government Website, retrieved 2009-11-18
  2. ^ a b Guiyang City Government Website, (in Chinese), retrieved 2009-11-10
  3. ^ Guiyang Metro article about Jinyang, (In Chinese), retrieved 2009-11-10
  4. ^ Project Bidding Website,(In Chinese), retrieved 2009-10-23
  5. ^ Guiyang Web (In Chinese), retrieved 2009-11-03.
  6. ^ Hyatt Hotels website, retrieved 2011-11-02
  7. ^ [1] retrieved 2011-11-02.
  8. ^ Baidu, (In Chinese), retrieved 2009-11-25.
  9. ^ Century Town Website,(In Chinese), retrieved 2009-11-23.
  10. ^ China Highway article about Guiyang High Speed Rail Station (In Chinese), retrieved 2009-11-24
  11. ^ China West Technology Park Website (In Chinese) Retrieved 2009-11-22
  12. ^ Marriott Renaissance Guiyang Website, Retrieved 2011-11-02
  13. ^ Article about company headquarters in Jinyang Retrieved 2009-11-24

External links

Huaxi 花溪area of Guiyang, southwestern sububrb, has Guizhou University 贵州大学, other schools incl. Minorities U 贵州民族大学, & branch of Guizhou Normal University, “College Town”

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Huaxi District (Chinese: 花溪区; pinyin: Huāxī Qū) is a district in Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou Province, China. It is a scenic resort and a national minority cultural center.

Huaxi has an area of 957.6 square km and a population of 328,700. Its GDP was 4.35 billion RMB in 2006.

It is named after the Huaxi River (the “Flower Brook”) that meanders through the town and is featured by genuine hills and waters, pastoral beauty and national minority custom. The North Campus and South Campus of Guizhou University and Guizhou University for Nationalities are located in town. The educational facilities and natural beauty make it a renowned educational and cultural center as well as an important tourist destination of Guizhou and southwest China.

(from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaxi_District )

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old map of Guiyang,18th century,French

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History of Guiyang

The city was first constructed as early as 1283 AD during the Yuan Dynasty. It was originally called Shunyuan (順元), meaning obeying the Yuan (the Mongol rulers).
Originally the area was populated by non-Chinese. The Sui Dynasty (AD 581–618) had a commandery there, and the Tang dynasty (618–907) 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.” Chinese settlement in the area also began at that time, and, under the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties, the town became the seat of a superior prefecture named Guiyang.

Locally Guiyang was an important administrative and commercial center with two distinct merchant communities, consisting of the Sichuanese, who lived in the “new” northern part of the city, and those from Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi 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. Road transport infrastructure with Kunming in Yunnan province and with Chongqing in Sichuan (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 network in Guangxi was completed, allowing seamless connection from Guizhou to Chongqing to the north, to Kunming to the west, and Changsha to the east.
(from Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiyang )