Guizhou is a mountainous province in southwest China. It’s known for its traditional rural villages, inhabited by minority groups like the Miao and Dong. It’s also famed for 74m-high Huangguoshu Waterfall. Nearby, Dragon Palace Cave is an extensive underground system with waterways
Located in a mountainous region of Guizhou Province, Shibanhe village was linked to the outside world only with a narrow footpath until 2000 when the villagers decided to build a decent road to improve traffic condition, and 3 years later, a 470-meter-long cliff edge road was completed. From 2014 to 2016, as a part of a project aiming to provide broader access to every village in the region, the road was reconstructed into a 4.5-meter-wide cement highway that provides a better link between the village and the national traffic network.
Motorists drive on the cement road.
The local government supported the project with goods, materials and partial funding. The tunnel was carved successfully in 2003 despite one villager dying and over a dozen villagers being injured in the process. The tunnel has since been upgraded to a wider one in 2014, after another two year excavation.
Workers clean the cement road from Shibanhe village in Hezhang county of Bijie City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province.
A car moves on the cement road that is cut into the cliff near Shibanhe village in Hezhang county of Bijie City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province
Villagers walk against the backdrop of the cement road.
This is the Shibanhe village that is linked by a road in Hezhang county of Bijie City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province.
