“Huawei opens data center in Guian New Area,” Guiyang.gov (English), December 22, 2021, ➝.
“Huawei builds data storage center in Guizhou,” Xinhuanet, August 2, 2017, ➝.
As said by Lu Yongzheng during the “Guizhou: Carrying forward the spirit of Zunyi Meeting and embarking on a Long March of the new era” event on May 20, 2021, ➝.
This phrase and variations on it are Xi Jinping-era trademarks. See: Xinhua, “What to know about China’s high-quality development,” State Council Information Office, People’s Republic of China, March 18, 2024, ➝.
“Consul General of Switzerland in Chengdu Visited Guizhou Normal University,” November 19, 2020, ➝.
Huanqiu.com, “Guizhou’s super computational power enables the audience to watch the Wandering Earth II ten years in advance,” PR Newswire, March 18, 2023, ➝.
Government Guidance funds can be between national banks, local government investment vehicles, and private capital. See: Yifan Wei, Yuen Yuen Ang, and Nan Jia, “The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guidance Funds in China,” The China Quarterly 256 (2023): 939–59; China.org.cn, “Guizhou: a decade of China’s big data valley,” PRNewswire, October 14, 2022, ➝.
Xinhua, “China turns ancient caves into big data treasury,” China Daily, June 3, 2023, ➝.
Tim Oakes, ‘“The National New Area as an Infrastructure Space: Urbanization and the New Regime of Circulation in China,”‘ The China Quarterly 255 (September 2023): 162.
Tim Oakes, “From Creation City to Infrastructural Urbanism” in Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia, eds. Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023), 159.
James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
Tim Oakes and Zuo Zhenting, “‘Remoteness and Connectivity,” 426, ‘in The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia, eds. Jelle J. P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise (London: Routledge, 2022).
Barry Naughton, ‘“The Third Front: Defence Industrialization in the Chinese Interior,” The China Quarterly 115 (1988): 352. See also Covell F. Meyskens, Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 37.
Meyskens, Mao’s Third Front, appendix A.2.
“Eastern Data Western Calculation,” National Development and Reform Commission, March 7, 2022, ➝.
Darcy Pan, ‘“Storing Data on the Margins: Making State and Infrastructure in Southwest China,” Information, Communication & Society 25, no. 16 (December 2022): 2419.
Amanda Lee and Mia Nulimaimaiti, “China’s debt-ridden Guizhou faces reckoning after years of splashing out on pricey projects,” South China Morning Post, March 9, 2024, ➝.
Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis), “5/5 Just as Guizhou in the past has been the poster child for investment excesses, it is likely in the future to become a model for the way in which much of the Chinese economy will have to adjust from these excesses.” Twitter, March 9, 2024, ➝.