Libo County is a county of Guizhou

Guizhou

' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.- History :...

, China

China

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. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province in the People's Republic of China. The capital of the prefecture is Duyun...

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Geography

The county is located in the remote southeastern corner of the prefecture, on the border with Guangxi

Guangxi

Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...

. Two local karst

KARST

Kilometer-square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope is a Chinese telescope project to which FAST is a forerunner. KARST is a set of large spherical reflectors on karst landforms, which are bowlshaped limestone sinkholes named after the Kras region in Slovenia and Northern Italy. It will consist of...

 sites, Xiaoqikong (小七孔) and Dongduo (洞多), form part of the multi-site South China Karst

South China Karst

The South China Karst , a UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 2007, spans China's southern provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan. The region of south China is particularly noted for its karst features and landscapes as well as rich biodiversity. The site comprises three clusters: Libo...

 UNESCO

UNESCO

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 World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

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 inscribed in 2007.

Transportation

The Qiannan/Libo Airport, opened in late 2007, has capacity to receive planes of the Boeing 737

Boeing 737

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 class, and to handle up to 220,000 passengers annually. However, the $57-million facility is rather underutilized so far. According to the CAAC

Civil Aviation Administration of China

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 statistics, merely 151 paying passengers flew into or out of the airport in 2009 - which was a 98% drop compared to the previous year (7886 passengers), and placed the airport the last in list of the nation's 166 airports by traffic volume. According to a Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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reporter who visited the airport, the facility is presently served only by twice-a-week flight to the provincial capital, Guiyang

Guiyang

Guiyang is the capital of Guizhou province of Southwest China. It is located in the centre of the province, situated on the east of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, and on the north bank of the Nanming River, a branch of the Wu River. The city has an elevation of about 1,100 meters...

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