Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, rebranded itself as "Cool Guiyang" on Jan 16.
The first session of the 18th People's Congress of Kaiyang county officially concluded on Jan 10.
With the start of operation of the Goupitan Hydropower Station vessel navigation system last year, Southwest China's Guizhou province has established a direct shipping route connecting the Wujiang River with the Yangtze River.
Kaiyang received 136,000 tourists during the three-day New Year's holiday on Jan 1-3,a whopping year-on-year increase of 23.72 percent.
The newly-built Weng'an-Kaiyang Expressway officially opened to traffic on Dec 31, following a construction period of three years and nine months.
A project new plant with an annual production capacity of 50,000 metric tons of lithium bisfluorosulfonimide broke ground on Dec 24 in Kaiyang county.