Hello and welcome to Guiyang City
in Guizhou province. Let's go!
China's infrastructure is leading the world.
I've shown you guys around Beijing, Shanghai,
Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and now I'm
here in Guiyang in Guizhou province.
Take a look at this beautiful park here,
it's huge.
People just relaxing, enjoying the sunshine.
Taking in that fresh air of Guizhou.
Guizhou has some of the freshest air.
You could literally bottle it up and sell it.
There is just mountains everywhere
throughout the Guizhou region.
I mean, you can see one there just
popping up in between buildings.
But did that stop China's infrastructure?
No, it did not.
Today, Guizhou has 30,000 bridges,
including those under construction.
Over 8,000 kilometres of highways and more than
2,100 tunnels that connect
the province and the outside world.
Improving business, trade, travel and making
people's lives much more convenient.
As the only province in China without planes,
Guizhou has broken through its construction
problems and created many
world-class Canyon bridges.
It's a sort bridge museum for the world.
Guizhou is home to more than 40
of the world's top 100 highest bridges.
The Beipanjiang bridge is
the world's highest bridge.
The Pingtang bridge is the world's
highest concrete tower bridge.
The Yachihe bridge is the longest steel truss
cable-stayed bridge in the world,
just to name a few.
On my flight coming into Guiyang,
I just randomly looked out the window
and I saw huge bridges and highways,
they're everywhere!
Speaking of infrastructure,
we are now at Guiyang North Railway Station.
This is where you come when you want to travel
anywhere all across China
on the high speed trains.
Look at this. It's absolutely packed.
All these Chinese people just setting
off on their journeys across China.
Maybe going home, maybe going back
to the university, going to work.
I'm also getting a high speed train.
You're going to find out where I'm going to.
Let's go.
Just on the train now, zipping across
the lands far and wide at high speeds.
Look at that 294km/h, almost 300 km/h.
We'll probably pass 300 in a second.
I don't have a first class ticket, but she
said that I can just have a quick look around.
These are the famous egg chairs of first class.
Let me just have a little sit down here.
Oh, that is comfortable.
Oh, that is good.
Look at this.
It's like you're in some kind of space pod.
It's amazing.
Then look outside, look at the view.
The mountains of Guizhou.
Right now, we're doing the coin test.
Usually, you do this coin test with a 1 kuai
coin, but now I'm doing it with a five jiao coin.
Look at that.
We're traveling at 300 kilometres per hour.
Look how still that coin is.
Remarkable.
I have arrived at a factory now,
and at this factory,
they are producing the materials that go
into many of the electric
batteries, and they supply a lot of companies
throughout China and around the world.
A leading global integrated service
provider of new energy materials.
Although this factory manufactures thousands
of tons of materials per year, they're devoted
to doing so in an environmentally friendly way.
Unlike the West, it's all talk, talk, talk.
We're going to do this.
We're going to reduce these emissions.
We're going to do this and that.
It's all talk.
China puts that talk into action.
China actually does something about
it to try and reduce their emissions.
To try and achieve carbon neutrality.
I also had a chance to visit the 500 meter
Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, FAST,
the world's largest single aperture
Spherical radio telescope.
Now, you're not allowed to bring any kind of
electrical devices on the tour as it would
cause radio frequency interference.
But they very kindly provided me
with this footage to show you guys.
Fast, also known as the 'Eye of the Sky',
has a reflecting surface 500 metres in diameter
located in a naturally deep
and round karst depression.
Focusing radio waves on a receiving antenna
in a 'feed bed' suspended 140 metres above it,
the reflector is made of perforated aluminium
panels supported by a mesh of steel
cables hanging from the rim.
Fast started formal operation in January 2020
and has discovered more than 740 Pulsars,
making it the most efficient Pulsar discovery
telescope in the world during that period.
The larger telescope means a larger optical area
and a stronger ability to detect weak signals,
which can greatly expand the number of observable
samples and help humans detect
distant phenomena in the universe.
I have now arrived at Cinnabar Ancient Town.
Now, this used to be a
a mercury mine many years ago.
Now, what China has done, they've not just
abandoned the mine, abandon this place.
No, they've transformed this place and renovated
it into a tourist town that you can come visit,
dress up in some of the traditional clothing.
Enjoy this place.
There's little bits showing the history
of the place and small little museums.
I just found out that this mine actually
started more than 2,000 years ago.
These buildings on the side here,
these are from around the 1950s, 1960s.
We have the old post office here from 1960.
You can see the China post there.
We've got some Ayi's not acting their age here.
Taking some fun pictures.
Right, so now we're getting
a look at the cinnabar.
So this is the rock and the cinnabar, there it is.
The red kind of a...
ore.
Mercury oxide.
Mercury oxide in the rock.
So we have three cinnabar bracelets
here and you can see the price on that.
It's not actually that cheap.
Look at that.
That is 13,000 RMB.
This one, 7,000 and this one almost 10,000.
So I can try one on.
Wow. I better not...
It's quite heavy.
Yeah, it's heavy.
Very magic effect, I don't think a couple
of thousand is quite expensive.
It's heavier than I expected.
Yes, it's a rock.
It's more expensive than I expected.
Can you give to me for free?
Sorry, it's not possible.
Not possible.
Wow, look at this one.
It costs almost 60,000 RMB.
It's the best quality.
It's the best quality in the whole place.
It's quite heavy.
That is expensive.
I better not drop it.
Wait, let me just put it down carefully.
I can back away slowly now.
If you break it, you buy it.
We're on another bridge now.
We're on a glass bridge.
On a glass bridge.
Do we trust this glass bridge?
Should we jump together?
All right, let's go.
3, 2, 1.
We're still alive.
We believe in made in China.
We believe.
Also throughout Guizhou and actually where I live
in Xingyi, they discovered
a lot of bones from dinosaurs, I believe.
I'm not sure which period...
Oh, look at this.
Some kind of dragon dinosaur.
If anyone knows the information about this,
then tell me in the comments below.
This one is absolutely huge.
Imagine that just swimming by you.
Okay, so now I am at the Eco Forum Global Guiyang.
Wow, this place is pretty huge.
This is a big event!
Founded in 2009, the Eco forum global promotes
the sharing of knowledge and experience
in the implementation of policies regarding green
economic transformation and ecological security.
Guiyang, the host city of the forum, has been
a national pioneer in ecological development.
Guiyang has been listed several times
as one of China's low carbon cities.
Its goal of achieving green development has paid
off, further driving the transformation
of the city's development.
Now, that brings us to the end
of my journey here in Guiyang.
I am now gonna head to the airport
and get a flight to my next destination.
Find out where on the next episode.
I will see you in the next one.
Signing off.