China - Nanning & Guizhou
Guizhou When I was telling my friends that I am going to Guizhou, many asked "Where is it? What is there to see in Guizhou?", some asked "Go Guizhou eat Luo Si Fen (螺蛳粉)?" "Drink Mao Tai (茅台)?" Guizhou is an under rated place and not too familiar/ popular with foreigners. For my entire trip, I only encountered local domestic travelers. While other provinces in China were developing and prospering, Guizhou was one of the poorest province (4th lowest GDP) in China. Due to Guizhou 90% mountainous terrain, it was almost an inaccessible place till 2015 when the government started to develop Guizhou. There are 2 very significant areas of development in Guizhou: 1) Data hub and 2) Infrastructure Data hub: Today, Guizhou is one of the highest number of mega data centers in the world. Apple, Huawei, Tencent etc have established their cloud computing and big-data centers. With these development, it has propelled Guizhou up to top growth ...