Guitar-making industry drives growth in SW China's mountainous county

STORY: Guitar-making industry drives growth in SW China's mountainous county DATELINE: Oct. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:44 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the county 2. various of guitar-making factories 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHENG CHUANJIU, General manager of a local guitar-making factory 4. various of people making guitars 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): PU XING, Local official STORYLINE: Guitar-making industry has put Zheng'an County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, once mired in grinding poverty, on a fast track toward modernization. The county started to develop the industry in 2012. Since then, the local government has put forward a variety of preferential policies in rents, financing and taxes to support guitar-making companies and allow the sector to prosper. Zheng Chuanjiu, a native of Zheng'an County, had found success in the guitar industry in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. Years after he established his own guitar-making factory in G