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© Lonely Planet Publications 666 l o n e l y p l a n e t . c o m G U Ì Z H ŌU • • H i s t o r y 667 History constructed, a rail link was built to Guǎngxī, Historically, no-one has wanted to have much and industries were established in Guìyáng Guìzhōu 贵州 to do with Guìzhōu. Chinese rulers set up an and Zūnyì. Most of this activity ceased with administration in the area as far back as the the end of the war and it wasn’t until the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220), but it was communists began construction of the rail- merely in an attempt to maintain some meas- ways that industrialisation of the area was