Guizhou
Mountainous province in south-west China. The pin is the province’s representative point.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakneck | Dan Wang | subject | A poor province rebuilt with bridges, expressways and rail, and buried in debt. |
Sub-places
Breakneck — Dan Wang (2025)
Source: Readwise highlight
Over five days, we cycled nearly four hundred miles through Guizhou province and arrived in the city of Chongqing.
- Role: subject
- In the book: Chapter 2’s extended case. In 2021 the author and two friends cycled nearly four hundred miles across the province to Chongqing; Guizhou, long poor and mountainous, has been transformed by bridges, expressways, high-speed rail and data centres, but carries heavy debt and underused airports.
- Why it matters: The book’s extreme example of the engineering state’s building strategy, with both its benefits and its costs.