Transforming Rural China: A Visit to Modern Socialist Villages
by Sitaram Yechury
At our request, once again, we were taken to one of the relatively less developed areas to see the levels of development and the living conditions there. The delegation spent two days in Guiyang capital city of Guizhou province in China’s south west region. As stated earlier, the per capita income here is 1/10th of that in Shanghai province. In terms of natural beauty, however, this is one of the spectacular areas in China with wondrous mountainous formations and spectacular waterfalls. Given this terrain, land for agricultural operations is very difficult to come by. A local saying goes as follows, “it doesn’t go more than three days without raining and you wont find more than a square meter of flat land”.
Apart from visiting the natural landscape and the Huangguoshu waterfalls (the highest in Asia) the delegation had the (more…)
