This photo taken on July 26, 2026 shows people sitting next to statues of cartoon guitar characters at the Guitar Cultural Plaza in Zheng'an, in southwestern China's Guizhou Province. The town of Zheng'an in the southwest province of Guizhou produces one in every seven of the instruments sold worldwide -- but a decade ago, it had no guitar-making industry to speak of at all. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story 'China-Economy-Trade-Manufacturing-Music', Reportage by Rita QIAN