Commercial press geography of China . ^) Kweichow is a poor and mountainous inland province,with a small population. > ore tha i lialf of the people are notChinese, but are Miaotzi —wild tribes, who have been conqueredby Chinese. Kweichow is poorbecause undeveloped. Itis not a good province foragriculture. The chie^products have been opiunand timber. The roadare very bad and the tradois small. Kweichow be-ing an inland provincefar from the sea, the pro-ducts go only to near-by provinces, especiallyKwangsi and Hunan. Kweichow ia rich inminerals, but these min-erals are not properlymined. Qui
Commercial press geography of China . ^) Kweichow is a poor and mountainous inland province,with a small population. > ore tha i lialf of the people are notChinese, but are Miaotzi —wild tribes, who have been conqueredby Chinese. Kweichow is poorbecause undeveloped. Itis not a good province foragriculture. The chie^products have been opiunand timber. The roadare very bad and the tradois small. Kweichow be-ing an inland provincefar from the sea, the pro-ducts go only to near-by provinces, especiallyKwangsi and Hunan. Kweichow ia rich inminerals, but these min-erals are not properlymined. Quicksilver, zinc,lead, nitre, sulphur, cop-per, coal and iron arefound. MiAOTZE Kweiyang, in the centre of the province, is important as anofficial city, rather than as a place of trade. It is in the centreof a rich mineral district. The road from Hunan to Yunnanpasses through Kweiyang. The city has manufactures of silk,horsehair, and leather, Kweiyang is well guarded by nature,there are narrow passes defending the roads to the 14 GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA The rivers of Kweichow are rapid. The Wu (^ fT) flowsto the Yangtse; the Yuan (Jc CC) to Tung Ting Lake (M E M)-Two Kweichow rivers form the Hungshui River of Kwangsi. The Nan Ling Mountains CS ^ Ui M) cross Kweichowfrom Yunnan to Hunan. This ridge is sometimes called MiaoLing (U ^), as it is the home of the wild Miao tribes. Thesemountainous parts of the province are hard to attack, but easyto defend. So the savage tribes do not disappear as they havein some other provinces. Some of the Miaotze are adopting thecustoms of Chinese, civilization, but their wilder tribes live incaves. The Wu Ling Mountains (j^ |^ ilj 1^) are in the east andnorth of Kweichow. The mountains of the province have foresas well as mineral wealth. Tsitsingkwan (-b M M) in the west is a gate where theroads from three provinces (Szechwan, Kweichow and Yunnan)meet. It trades with Luchow (j^ Jt|J on the Yangtse. In the eastern or lower part of the province
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