Province ready to rebuild its image

GUIYANG - Unlike some easily-content officials, the governor of Southwest China's Guizhou province is still uneasy with the province's 12 percent annual GDP growth over the past five years.

What Zhao Kezhi is concerned about is how the province of 40 million people - which ranks last among all provincial-level regions in China in terms of per capita GDP - will catch up with the country's fast development.

"Guizhou's development has no further room to lag. It already has its back against the wall," Zhao said in a recent interview.