贵州历史时期早已存在石漠化的现象,但以清代雍正年间为界.此前存在的石漠化现象主要系自然原因,此后,由于雍正王朝大力开发贵州,贵州的人口和土地数字在此时期都经历了有史以来的第一次飞跃,加上在贵州西部、西北部及南部等地开矿,使得这些生态脆弱地带遭受了史无前例的破坏,雍正时期也就成为人为因素开始影响贵州石漠化的重要时期.
The rock-desertification in Guizhou province can be divided by the timeline of Yongzheng-reign in the Qing Dynasty. Before that the rock-desertification was mainly caused by natural rock property and climate, and after that, since the Yongzheng government began to exploit Guizhou vigorously, the population and the cultivated land increased in an unprecedented way. Moreover, because of the extensive mining in the west, the northwest and the south parts of Guizhou, its fragile zones underwent an unprecedented deterioration. As a resuit, the Yongzheng reign-period became an important time period from which human activities began to affect the rock-desertification in Guizhou.