Qujing

Qujing is a prefecture-level city in the east of Yunnan province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the east and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the southeast; thus, it was called "Key between Yunnan and Guizhou" and "Throat of Yunnan" in the past. It is part of the Central Yunnan Metropolitan Region plan in effect for 2016–49. Its administrative population is 6,047,000 according to a 2015 estimate, of whom, 1,408,500 reside in the metro area, which contains Qilin District, Zhanyi District and Malong District. During the 11th National Five-Year Plan period, the government of Qujing planned to develop the city into the "big city at the origin of the Pearl River" in the following decades, including increasing the built-up urban area to past 100 km2 and the urban population to surpass 1 million by 2020, the second in Yunnan, after Kunming.