Fat profits are encouraging distillers of baijiu, a Chinese white spirit distilled from fermented sorghum, to continue their investments in the sector, ahead of the busy sales season spanning Christmas and the Chinese Spring Festival in the second half of January.
The railway starts in Chengdu, passes Meishan, Leshan and Yibin cities in Sichuan, and runs through Weixin and Zhenxiong counties in Zhaotong city in Yunnan province and Bijie city in Guizhou before reaching Guiyang.
Zheng'an, a small county in Guizhou province of Southwest China, is the world's largest guitar manufacturing center from where locals export the instrument globally.
United Kingdom-based John Swire & Sons Ltd has set up its first refined tea processing plant in China in Sinan, a county in the mountainous Guizhou province, to cash in on the local advantages like a subtropical climate and clean air.
China's water-rich Guizhou province is consolidating local drinking water businesses under one roof by launching a unified brand - Colorful Guizhou - for marketing purposes.
After working as a principal at a top school in a prosperous province, it was not an easy decision to pack up and move to a rural high school in an impoverished area - especially when you have just retired.
