Poverty-stricken Guizhou province will push its own style of industrialization and urbanization to realize its goal of building a prosperous society by 2020, authorities said.

"The province is mountainous. Therefore, we do not give priority to developing big cities with large populations and tall buildings like many economically developed regions in East China," Governor Chen Min'er, a deputy to the National People's Congress, said in Beijing on Tuesday.

Instead, developing smaller cities and towns with local characteristics will be the direction of the province's urbanization, he said during a news conference on the sidelines of the annual session of the NPC.