guizhou

Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for more than two decades reporting on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In his new book, The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World, Roberts looks at what actually powers the Chinese economic machine. From the rural villages that supply the vast numbers of migrant workers to what this massive internal migration has meant for China’s …

The cool mountains, cheap power and government support are making Guizhou the tech centre of China Located in the remote land-locked mountains of Southwest China is Guizhou – one of China’s poorest provinces. Of its 38 million inhabitants, 36 percent are ethnic minorities, living in villages dotted across the mountainous landscape, where their lifestyle has barely changed for centuries. Although rich in natural resources (it has the fifth largest coal …