Guiyang city - China

Guiyang (simplified Chinese: 贵阳; traditional Chinese: 貴陽; pinyin: Guìyáng) is the capital of Guizhou Province, the People's Republic of China. Guiyang is located in central Guizhou province, situated on the east of the Yungui Plateau, and on the north bank of the Nanming River, a branch of the Wu River. The city has an elevation of about 1,100 meters. It has an area of 8,034 square kilometers.
Guiyang is the capital of Guizhou province, located at an elevation of 3,000 feet in the very center of the southwest province. It is dominated by mist-shrouded hills surrounding the Wujiang Valley. The climate is mild throughout the year, much like that in Kunming, the capital of neighboring Yunnan province.
The most interesting scenic spot in the city is the Southern Cave, or Underground Park as the locals call it. About half a mile in length, the cave contains spectacular stalactites and stalagmites.
A three-hour journey west from Guiyang is the Huangguoshu waterfall, one of the biggest falls in China, 316 feet high and 346 feet wide. Water pours down a cliff into the Xiniu Pool. Sunlight is diffracted through the drops of water, producing glorious rainbows. There is a natural cave behind the waterfall, 131 feet above Xiniu Pool. Standing inside and watching the water pouring down is an unforgettable sight. Around the Huangguoshu are 18 smaller falls and 30 karst caves.
Guiyang has grown exponentially since the 1990s. The city's heart is around the 大十字 (literally "Big Ten") which is a cross, resembling the Chinese character for ten, and 喷水池 (literally "Fountain Pool") which is a traffic intersection which had a large fountain at its center, until the fountain was paved over in early 2010 to help improve the flow of traffic.
The city is 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 transportation center, with comparatively easy access northward to Sichuan, eastward to Guangxi and Guangdong, westward to Yunnan, and northeast to Hunan province.
　The total area of land is 804,667 ha., including cultivated land of 288,979 ha., accounting for 35.91%; garden land of 5616 ha., accounting for 0.70%; forest land of 266,258 ha., accounting for 33.09% (15.97% of forest coverage); grazing land of 28,860 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.