Dashing Toward The Finish Line
A destitute county without a musical tradition, Zheng’an in Guizhou Province in southwest China is an unlikely home for many of the world’s top-notch guitars. However, the mountainous area with little arable land has bloomed into the largest guitar production base in the world, growing from a seed brought in by native resident Zheng Chuanjiu.
In the 1990s when many people from this impoverished county flocked to economically advanced places to seek a better life, Zheng went to Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong, where he
