Guiyang Geography

Situated on the Nanming River, a headstream of the Wu River, which eventually joins the Yangtze River at Fuling in Sichuan province, Guiyang is a natural route center, with comparatively easy access northward to Sichuan and northeast to Hunan province. The city's heart is around the "Big Ten" which is a cross, resembling the Chinese character for ten, and "Fountain Pool" which is a fountain in the center of a traffic circle.

The total area of land is 804667 ha., including cultivated land of 288979 ha., accounting for 35.91%; garden land of 5616 ha., accounting for 0.70%; forest land of 266258 ha., accounting for 33.09% (15.97% of forest coverage); grazing land of 28860 ha., accounting for 3.59%; water surface area (including residential area, industrial land, traffic land and water conservancy facilities) of 48276 ha., accounting for 6.00%; unused land of 15143 ha., accounting for 18.82%.

The land area per capita is 0.26 ha. And the cultivated land area per capita is 0.093 ha. As for agricultural population, the land area per capita is 0.46 ha., less than a half of the national average and the cultivated land per capita is 0.17 ha., being one-third of the national average. Unused land in Guiyang is 151431 ha. in which there are 35348 ha. wasteland, 72191 ha. exposed conglomerate, 4301 ha. field ridge, 334 ha. exposed land and 236 ha. mudflat. The kind of soil in Guiyang covers 8 classifications, that is, yellow soil, brown soil, calcareous soil, purple soil, moist soil, bog soil, rice soil and meadow soil, in which there are 301600 ha. yellow soil, 196600 ha. calcareous soil and 80100 ha. rice soil, accounting for 49059%, 32.33% and 13.17% respectively.

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