Guizhou, China : The Beautiful old eroded plateau

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Guizhou is a mountainous province in southwest China. It's known for its wonderful landscapes, ancient rural villages, cultural and historical relics, and an agreeable temperature all year round, Guizhou is attracting a lot of tourists, both domestic and international.

Guizhou is part of an old eroded plateau, known as the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau which links with plateau areas in Yunnan. located between the hilly regions of Hunan and Guangxi and the Plateau of Tibet , the plateau forms part of a continuously ascending profile of the southwest, its altitude increasing from about 700 metres in eastern Guizhou to about  2,000 metres in the west, The Guangxi Basin to the south and the Sichuan Basin to the north are both the results of faulting.

Most of the cultivated area of Guizhou is grain crops, the most important of which is rice, Other food crops include wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, oats and barley .
Corn is grown chiefly in eastern Guizhou.

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