Society slowly forming around Guiyang's tech ambitions

Guo Jian's office in a Guiyang high-rise offers a view of the Bailu Lake below.

In 2010, when he started to work here, he saw very few people. The area looked like a patch of real estate in search of tenants - a scene familiar to many newer parts of urban China. In more recent times the lake has been surrounded by hundreds of home-grown and foreign companies that have set up shop in this high-tech industrial development zone.

The hustle and bustle in the capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, which witnessed little developmental activity in the earlier decades, is because of its technological aspirations.