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Guizhou in figures

A mountainous southwest province known for hydropower, resources, liquor, tourism and digital infrastructure.

Official standard map

Official administrative map of Guizhou Province (16-kai, neighboring context)

This is the complete 2022 approved edition (administrative I, 16-kai) provided through the official standard-map service of Standard Map Service, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China. China in Figures has not cropped, redrawn, annotated or otherwise altered the map.

Official administrative map of Guizhou Province (16-kai, neighboring context) from the official standard-map service of Standard Map Service, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China, approval no. Qian S (2022) No. 005
Source: Official standard map serviceOfficial MNR original JPEG · Approval no. Qian S (2022) No. 005 · 2022 approved edition · Scale 1:3,000,000

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Province profile

Economy, population and provincial structure

Each value keeps its own unit. Indexed bars provide a visual summary only and are not direct unit comparisons.

Latest official values
Source: Guizhou Statistics ↗ · Guizhou Government ↗ · Guizhou 2024 statistical communique and official geography references.chinainfigures.com

Scope

What the province total covers

Guizhou is a predominantly mountainous and karst province in southwest China. Province totals include Guiyang and extensive rural, ethnic-minority and highland areas.

Boundary

Province is not a metro area

Resident population is the year-end province-wide total: 38.60 million in 2024. Administrative area (176,167 sq km) is territory inside the provincial-level boundary, not built-up area.

Economy

How to read the structure

In 2024, Guizhou's GDP reached 2.27 trillion yuan and real GDP grew 5.3 percent. 2024 industry structure: primary 13.1%, secondary 31.3%, tertiary 55.6%.

International scale check

Compared with Czechia

Selected for similar economic scale: Czechia.

Not a like-for-like rank

Czechia's nominal GDP (~US$0.34T, World Bank 2024) is close to Guizhou's provincial-level GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.33T).

Guizhou is a mountainous southwest province with hydropower, resources, liquor, tourism and digital infrastructure; Czechia is a sovereign country. GDP proximity is a scale reference only. Population, area, administrative status and economic structure are not directly comparable.

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Guizhou

Chinese province-level region-wide scope

Peer country

Czechia

National territory (sovereign state)

At least GDP, population and area; density is derived from population ÷ area.
MetricGuizhouCzechia
Gross product2.27trillion yuan· 2024≈ US$325B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Guizhou Statistics ↗345US$ billion· 2024World Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗
Population38.6million people· 2024Guizhou Statistics ↗10.91million people· 2024World Bank WDI · Population, total ↗
Area176,167sq km· 2024Guizhou Government ↗78,870sq km· 2023World Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗
Density (derived)219people / sq km138people / sq km

Used only to place Chinese province GDP beside country GDP in USD. Not PPP, not constant-price, and not an official exchange-rate series.

Industrial footprint

Industries that stand out

These facts highlight measurable national or global shares, rankings, and concentrated industry clusters. Sub-provincial facts are labelled with their exact local scope.

Province-wide2023

Guizhou

Sauce-aroma baijiu production capacity

~80%

Share of China sauce-aroma baijiu production capacity

National share
Sauce-aroma baijiu capacity
600 thousand kL
Total baijiu capacity
~800 thousand kL

Province-wide 2023 production-capacity share for sauce-aroma baijiu only. Preserve the published approximate share and do not relabel capacity as actual output.

Source · Department of Industry and Information Technology of Guizhou Province ↗
Province-wide2023

Guizhou

Baijiu industry sales revenue

16.9%

Share of China baijiu-industry sales revenue

National share
Share of China baijiu-industry profit total
37.3%

Province-wide 2023 baijiu-industry sales-revenue share. The 37.3% profit-total contribution is retained only as a supporting metric and must not be confused with revenue share.

Source · Department of Industry and Information Technology of Guizhou Province ↗