Guizhou Province, referred to as Qian or Gui, the capital of Guiyang, is located in the southwest region of China, the east is Hunan Province, the south is Guangxi, the west is Yunnan Province, the north is Sichuan Province and Chongqing City, the province's land area is 176,200 square kilometers, accounting for 1.8% of the country's total area, as of the end of 2019, the permanent population of 36.2295 million people.
Guizhou is named after Guishan Mountain, because Guizhou was called Qianzhong in ancient times, so it is referred to as Qian.
Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the northeastern region of Guizhou belonged to Jingchu, and the rest of the region was called Nanman, with many tribes, and the famous Mu Mu State.
From the late Warring States period to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Yelang was the most powerful local separatist regime among the various tribes of Southwest Yi.
In 135 BC, Emperor Wu of han sent Tang Meng to send an envoy to Yelang, and after negotiations, Yelanghou agreed to set up counties in his territory.
In 126 BC, Yelang County and Jilan County were established.
In 111 BC, it was placed in MuMu County.
In 25 BC, the kingdom of Yelang was destroyed, and the county system was finally established in the Yelang area.
During the Three Kingdoms period, most of the southwestern region belonged to the Shu Han dynasty, and Guizhou belonged to Mumu County, Zhuti County, Xinggu County, Jianghan County, and Fuling County.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Jin Dynasty, in the territory of present-day Guizhou, in addition to the county of Mumu, the remote areas were divided into Zhuti and Jianghan counties.
During the Sui Dynasty, in Guizhou, mu mu county and Mingyang county were placed in Guizhou, and the northeast region of present-day Guizhou belonged to Qian'an County and Yuanling County.
During the Tang Dynasty, in the area of present-day Guizhou, a parallel system of economic prefectures and Qiangzhou prefectures was implemented, and the economic prefectures established in Guizhou included Bozhou and Sizhou, and the established prefectures were Zhizhou and Manzhou.
During the Song Dynasty, the area of present-day Guizhou mainly belonged to Kuizhou Road, and other areas were subordinate to Kuizhou Road, Jinghu North Road, Tongchuan Road, Guangnan West Road, Jiannan West Road, and Jiannan East Road.
In 974, the indigenous leader Pugui submitted to the control of Zhizhou, and the Song Dynasty had the phrase "Guizhou, far away from the wilderness" in the edict, which is the earliest record of this area under the name of Guizhou.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the toast system was practiced in the area of present-day Guizhou, which was subordinate to the three provinces of Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Guizhou Cloth Envoy Department was set up, and Guizhou officially established the province, which was the beginning of guizhou's name.
During the Qing Dynasty, Zunyi Province, which belonged to Sichuan, and its subordinate counties were transferred to Guizhou.
On November 15, 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army liberated Guiyang.
As of the end of 2019, Guizhou Province has jurisdiction over 6 prefecture-level cities, 3 autonomous prefectures, 52 counties, 11 autonomous counties, 9 county-level cities, 15 municipal districts, and 1 special zone.
They are Guiyang City, Zunyi City, Liupanshui City, Anshun City, Bijie City, Tongren City, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and Southwest Qianxi Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.