Kaiyang county works to become a better place

In recent years, Kaiyang county, in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has been focused on building itself into a livable, business-friendly, tourism-friendly, and beautiful place by continuously improving its living environment, rural governance, cultural atmosphere, and prosperity of farmers.

People clean the street. [Photo/WeChat account of Kaiyang county]

Chuandong village, for example, is working to become greener and improve the quality of its living environment. It has now become an ecologically livable village, shaking off its old image of being poor and rundown.

Chuandong village. [Photo/WeChat account of Kaiyang county]

Longguang village is encouraging villagers to abandon outdated rules and customs and cultivating a new cultural atmosphere by utilizing WeChat groups to conduct online promotion as well as distributing promotional materials and writing slogans to promote the tasks among the people.

Tiankan village develops its yellow peach industry. [Photo/WeChat account of Kaiyang county]

Furthermore, Tiankan village is striving to increase incomes for farmers by developing industries and stabilizing employment. At present, the village has developed and planted 4,000 mu (about 267 hectares) of tea, 1,200 mu of yellow peaches and over 200 mu of vegetables. It has successfully introduced four professional tea enterprises and one breeding enterprise, achieving an annual disposable income of over 15,000 yuan ($2,070.56) for its residents.

Kaiyang county has built a livable environment, strong cultural atmosphere and booming industries.

The villagers pick tea leaves. [Photo/WeChat account of Kaiyang county]