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China is shifting its new data centers to rural Eastern locations as it looks for extra AI power

China is expanding rural AI data centers for climate and land advantages, though local wage growth has lagged behind investment.

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China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou

Chinese tech giants are putting up data centers in rural Chinese provinces with zero resistance. The abundance of land and energy in these areas allowed infrastructure to easily be built with limited issues, although some experts still question how much development they can bring to these areas.

Tom’s Hardware

China goes rural with data centres in quest to power AI

In China's hilly Guizhou province, a cluster of European-style buildings complete with clock tower and multi-arched bridge emits a low, permanent hum -- a clue to its unexpected identity as tech giant Huawei's largest data centre. Dozens ofdata centres have been constructed in the southwestern province in recent years.

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Plenty of players but no grassroots: can China ever grow into a footballing giant?

Some of its amateur matches pull in bigger crowds than European leagues but are more of a spectacle than a pathway to the professional game, say experts

The Guardian - AU

China's highest bridge brings tourists and internet access to remote communities, in photos

GUIZHOU, China (AP) — For tourists, a massive new suspension bridge in southwestern China is a new selfie spot and social media attraction. But for local residents, it's something far more practical: a link to the highway that cuts travel times from hours to just minutes, and a symbol of…

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Global Times: Chinese medical teams in Solomon Islands turn health aid into lasting capacity, bringing treatment closer to patients in remote communities

BEIJING, May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- After a tropical cyclone swept through the Western Province of Solomon Islands, traces of the disaster were still visible along the coast of Rarumana community. Trees had been brought down, and seaweed farms were damaged. For this remote community in the South Pacific, separated…

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Chinese authorities destroy villager’s ramshackle 10-storey Studio Ghibli-esque home

The home in a village in Guizhou province had become a tourist attraction, but officials said it lacked the necessary building permits

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Rescue workers swim through buildings to reach trapped residents as heavy rains kill 24 in China

Several people remain missing across Hubei, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces

The Independent UK

Protests erupt in China’s Guizhou province over cremation mandate

Villagers demonstrate against drive for alternative funeral practices instead of burial to preserve land resources

The Guardian - UK

Six dead, thousands displaced as floods hit southwestern China

‘Exceptionally large floods’ swept through Guizhou’s Rongjiang county, forcing some 80,000 people to flee their homes.

Al Jazeera

4 dead and 17 trapped in landslides in southwestern China

Landslides have struck a rural area in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, killing four people and leaving 17 others trapped in the debris

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Ex-Leader of Scandal-Plagued Province Pleads Guilty in $113 Million Bribery Case

Sun Zhigang, a former Communist Party chief of Southwest China’s Guizhou, is accused of taking advantage of his positions to help others get project contracts and develop real estate, a court says

Caixin Global

Another Mayor of Provincial Capital Falls to Graft Probe

Ma Ningyu is the fourth person in the position in Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou, to come under investigation for corruption

Caixin Global

Top Regulator Presses Local Governments to Fund Housing Projects

China’s NFRA Chief Li also urges strict scrutiny of residential developments

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Another Provincial Graft Buster Busted for Graft

Zhang Ping, deputy secretary of Guizhou’s discipline inspection commission, is suspected of ‘serious violations of discipline and law’

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Guizhou Enacts Emergency Response for Wild Blaze

Two killed fighting forest fires in Guizhou’s Pu’an County but major infrastructure has not been damaged

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Former Provincial Party Chief Expelled for ‘Meddling With Judicial Activities’

Sun Zhigang, Guizhou’s ex-Communist Party secretary, is also suspected of using his influence to help others in return for money and gifts

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Ex-Deputy Governor of Guizhou Accused of Reckless Debt Borrowing

Li Zaiyong, under investigation by graft busters, gets kicked out of the Communist Party and expelled from public office

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China’s cash-strapped local governments can’t pay workers on time

China’s local municipalities are heavily in debt, with all 31 apart from Shanghai reporting deficits in 2022.

The Times of India

New Covid outbreak in China, India says no need to panic yet

With another Covid-19 outbreak in China, India Inc is cautiously optimistic that the resilience of the Indian economy will help avoid any large-scale disruptions.

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China’s Local Governments Set Out Plans to Meet 2030 Peak Carbon Goal

Some 14 provincial-level regions have released detailed action plans, with the Southwestern province of Guizhou and North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region among the latest to make announcements

The Guardian - AU

‘China’s hottest woman’: the driving force behind crunchy chilli sensation Lao Gan Ma

Tao Huabi rose from humble origins in south-western China to create a beloved condiment that can now be found in fridges around the world

The Guardian - AU

Anger in China after 27 people killed in Covid quarantine bus crash

Tragedy in Guizhou province became a lightning rod for social media criticism of zero-Covid policy before posts were shut down

Reuters

Bus crash kills 27 in mountainous southwest China

A bus crash killed 27 people and injured a further 20 when the vehicle rolled over on a highway in southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province, local police said in a statement on Sunday.

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High-Speed Train Derailment in China Kills 1, Injures 8

The driver of a high-speed train in southern China was killed and eight people were injured when two cars derailed early Saturday after hitting a mudslide, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The accident occurred mid-morning as the train was entering a tunnel in the inland southern province of Guizhou. It had…

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