Southwest China's Guizhou province, which is relatively economically undeveloped, will step up its efforts to open up to the outside world, said a senior local official on Monday.
Communities are already being transformed in Guizhou province thanks to efforts to make tourism a pillar industry.
Tourism plays a key role in Guizhou's mission to end poverty in the southwestern province, an official said on Monday.
Moutai producer Kweichow Moutai, based in Guizhou province, generated an estimated 16.8 billion yuan in revenue in 2011, an annual increase of 66 percent.