@tiger

The 9,000 villagers from the article's last paragraph may disagree with your first paragraph.

In comparison, short-term assistance for the poor would be giving them fish, whereas medium-term would be teaching them how to fish by ramping up budgets for their much-needed education & healthcare whatnot. Aforementioned "long-term" would be building them a fishing dock with radar-equipped ships so they could sail to the best fishing spots and eventually sell their catch; a wholesale industry ensues. A three-prong attack would be ideal.

Yes, rural poverty in Guizhou is notorious.

It's why the state and provincial governments are trying to attract foreign investments here by setting up high-tech, infrastructural launchpads in luring human capital. Behemoth data storage centers for Apple's iCould and Tencent's WeChat are also both cementing their presence in Guizhou,

They're borrowing from the playbook of Deng Xiaoping's SEZ reforms. Transforming a rural fishing village prior to 1978, to the global powerhouse that is modern Shenzhen. In this case, promoting Guizhou as targeted, tax-incentivized FDI zone of strategic technology, in hopes of trickle-down spillover growth throughout the province and beyond. Long-term foresight from the lessons of hindsight.

To piggyback Guizhou giveaway post, which has disabled the comments, just last week Guizhou government officials have signed a 50/50 joint venture deal with HyperloopTT to build China's first Hyperloop in the city of Tongren, which is located in eastern Guizhou.

This airless, levitation tube transport system is designed to travel faster than commercial airplanes at top speeds of 1,223 km/h. Both Elon Musk and Richard Branson are racing to be the first to implement their versions of the hyperloop abroad, besides their space race to Mars.

The Hyperloop construction is set to begin next year. Tongren transport & tourism ministries plan to connect to Mt. Fanjing (50 km northwest of Tongren) via this open-source, vacuum transport technology... hopefully linking up with our Yunnan down the line.

en.people.cn/n3/2018/0720/c90000-9482920.html

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