The mass move of people is to help researchers create a "sound electromagnetic environment," Li Yuecheng, Guizhou's senior Communist Party official, told Xinhua news agency.
If all goes to plan, China's 500 metre-diameter telescope will beat Puerto Rico's telescope, which is 300 metres in diameter.
In terms of the science, the shift of residents should make listening to radio waves in the universe easier without the interference of mobile phones and WiFi.
World's Largest Radio Telescope Under Construction(01 of06)
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PINGTANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 26: (CHINA OUT) The feed supporting system of the five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is under test on November 26, 2015 in Pingtang County, China. The construction will be completed in September 2016. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
World's Largest Radio Telescope Under Construction(02 of06)
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PINGTANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 26: (CHINA OUT) The feed supporting system of the five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is under test on November 26, 2015 in Pingtang County, China. The construction will be completed in September 2016. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
World's Largest Radio Telescope Under Construction(03 of06)
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PINGTANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 26: (CHINA OUT) The feed supporting system of the five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is under test on November 26, 2015 in Pingtang County, China. The construction will be completed in September 2016. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
World's Largest Radio Telescope Under Construction(04 of06)
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PINGTANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 26: (CHINA OUT) Police officers patrol as the feed supporting system of the five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is under test on November 26, 2015 in Pingtang County, China. The construction will be completed in September 2016. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
World's Largest Radio Telescope Under Construction(05 of06)
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PINGTANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 26: (CHINA OUT) The feed supporting system of the five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is under test on November 26, 2015 in Pingtang County, China. The construction will be completed in September 2016. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
China Starts Assembling The World's Largest Telescope(06 of06)
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PINGTANG, CHINA - JULY 28: A policeman stands guard at the assembly site of the single-aperture spherical telescope 'FAST' on July 28, 2015 in Pingtang, China. Assembly of the telescope, with a dish the size of 30 football fields and located deep in the mountains of Guizhou, has got underway. When it is completed in 2016, the five hundred meter aperture spherical telescope (FAST) will be the world's largest, overtaking Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which is only 300 meters in diameter. PHOTOGRAPH BY Feature China / Barcroft Media (Photo credit should read Feature China / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) (credit:Barcroft Media via Getty Images)