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Downtown and the Provincial Museum • Qiangling Shan Park and Hongfu Si
GUIYANG lies in a valley basin right in the middle of the province it governs,
encircled by a range of hills which hems in the city and concentrates its traffic
polution. Established as a capital during the Ming dynasty, Guiyang received little
attention until the early 1950s, when the new Communist government repaid minority
groups for their tacit help during the civil war by filling the centre with heavy
monuments and extending the provincial rail line to make the city a hub for western
China. This encouraged investment, though wealth arrived only recently, accelerating
Guiyang from a quiet conglomerate of tumbledown town houses to a web of wide roads and
twentieth-century highrises comprising a busy downtown district. The result may not be
one of China's most beautiful cities, but Guiyang is a friendly place, with a growing
expat population and well-stocked shopping centres and market stalls.
Most visitors simply spend one night here in transit, though anyone planning to
explore the province should seek out Guiyang's informative CITS office, and spend a
couple of hours browsing through the Provincial Museum 's collection. There are also a
scattering of temples and pavilions and several parks set within easy distance of the
centre.