Guizhou embraced its first high-speed railway on Dec 26, 2014, when the Guiyang-Guangzhou railway was open to traffic. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Guizhou embraced its first high-speed railway on Dec 26, 2014, when the Guiyang-Guangzhou railway was open to traffic. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Guizhou has stepped into the high-speed railway era, as the Guiyang-Guangzhou railway, the Guiyang-Kunming railway and the Chongqing-Guiyang railway were successively completed and opened to traffic.

For Zhu Weiying, a national intangible culture heritage inheritor and deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, it now only takes her only three hours to travel from Guangzhou to Congjiang county, her hometown, compared to over two days in the past.