Discovering Guizhou: The Guitar Fanatic

探寻贵州:吉他狂热者

Round Table China

2025-06-12

54 分钟
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In Zheng'an County, Guizhou province, a thriving guitar manufacturing industry has emerged, supplying major international brands and providing thousands of jobs. In this episode, we meet the guitar-makers, the musicians, and the dreamers who've transformed an entire region by turning strings into stories.
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is Roundtable.

  • Hello, welcome to Roundtable,

  • where we serve up piping hot debates on the issues that sizzle in China and beyond.

  • I'm Niu Honglin, and together with me, Lai Ming and Yishan.

  • Hello, everybody.

  • Hey, guys.

  • Instead of staying in our comfy studios having heated discussions,

  • today we're in somewhere special.

  • We are in the southwest province of Guizhou and this does not...

  • sound Guizhou or look Guizhou it does not shout out Guizhou but it's actually very Guizhou and here's why yeah right now we're in the guitar museum right there in the Zhong'an county in the city of Zuni in southwest China's Guizhou province and

  • as you can see in the background there are all different kinds of guitar of all different colors different sizes made from different local companies and we're going to discover a bit more on the local guitar industry

  • as we discuss I've never seen so So many guitars in these two days.

  • Me too.

  • I mean, when I was in middle school, I learned guitar a little bit.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Like for around two months.

  • It was really fun.

  • And I was able to sing along with the sound of guitars.

  • In just two months.