Listed sites in Chongqing 重庆

Chongqing 177 sites

• Ayi River Scenic Area 阿依河 5A scenic area · on the map
  The valley of the Ayi River, a tributary that rises in Guizhou and flows through Pengshui into the Wu River, home to protected animals such as François' langur.
• Heishan Valley and Wansheng Stone Forest 黑山谷 5A scenic area · on the map
  A 13 km gorge walk through dense forest in Heishan town near the Guizhou border, past waterfalls, pools, floating walkways and a great rift canyon, in a valley where François' langurs and dove trees are among the rare species recorded.
• Lesser Three Gorges & Mini Three Gorges 小三峡·小小三峡 5A scenic area · on the map
  Boat trips from Wushan town up the Daning River, which joins the Yangtze there, pass through its three gorges, Longmen, Bawu and Dicui, about 50 km in all, before visitors change at the Madu River to smaller boats for the narrower Mini Three Gorges.
• Longgang National Geopark 龙缸 5A scenic area · on the map
  A karst area of about 17 km² in Qingshui Tujia Township whose centrepiece, Longgang, is a sheer-walled tiankeng (giant sinkhole), with the caves of Da'an Cave and the canyon of the Shisun River nearby.
• Mount Jinfo 金佛山 5A scenic area
  A flat-topped limestone massif in the Dalou Mountains, ringed by cliffs up to 300 m high and rising to over 2,200 m at Fengchuiling, which joined the South China Karst World Heritage Site in 2014.
• Simian Mountain 四面山 5A scenic area
  A forested upland on a spur of the Dalou Mountains in southern Jiangjin, where red sandstone cliffs, lakes and more than a hundred waterfalls are spread over a scenic area of about 213 km².
• White Emperor City (Baidicheng) & Qutang Gorge 白帝城·瞿塘峡 5A scenic area · National heritage site
  A hilltop temple complex at the western mouth of Qutang Gorge, named after the warlord Gongsun Shu, who proclaimed himself the White Emperor in AD 25; since 1533 its halls have honoured Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms, and Tang poets including Li Bai and Du Fu wrote famous verses here.
• Wulingshan Great Rift Valley 武陵山大裂谷 5A scenic area · on the map
  A karst landscape of gorges, cliffs, caves and streams in the mountains of south-eastern Fuling, rated 5A in 2024 and covering about 30 km² with a height range of some 1,380 m.
• Youyang Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Spring) 酉阳桃花源 5A scenic area · on the map
  A 50 km² scenic area on the edge of Youyang's county town that presents itself as the real-world model for Tao Yuanming's fable of the Peach Blossom Spring, with a secluded karst valley of streams, fields and peach trees, Taigu Cave and the large Fuxi Cave with its wide variety of dripstone formations.
• Zhuoshui Ancient Town 濯水古镇 5A scenic area · on the map
  An old trading town on the Apeng River that grew up from the late Tang and flourished in the Ming and Qing, with about a kilometre of flagstone lanes lined by Tujia stilt houses and Hui-style buildings.
• 816 Nuclear Military Plant 816工程 4A scenic area
  An unfinished underground nuclear plant dug into a mountain beside the Wu River from 1966 as part of the Third Front programme, meant to produce plutonium for weapons and to survive a nuclear attack.
• Anju Ancient Town 安居古城 4A scenic area · on the map
  Anju sits where the Qiong River joins the Fu River, 17 km north of Tongliang, and was once an important distribution centre for goods on the upper Yangtze.
• Antao Pottery Town 安陶小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A pottery-themed tourist area in Anfu Subdistrict built around Rongchang pottery, a craft listed as national intangible cultural heritage, linking the Rongchang Pottery Museum, the old Taobao post road and craft-experience sites.
• Baigong Temple & the Han Que Pillar-Gates 白公祠 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A memorial temple to the Tang poet Bai Juyi, who served as prefect of Zhongzhou, first built in 1630 and rebuilt in 1986, now a museum park in the Zhong County town.
• Baiheliang Underwater Museum 白鹤梁水下博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A museum built around White Crane Ridge, a rock ledge in the Yangtze off Fuling that showed above water only in the dry season and bears some 170 inscriptions and carved fish recording the river's low levels in 72 years since 764.
• Baili Bamboo Sea (Guanyin Cave area) 百里竹海观音洞 4A scenic area · on the map
  Part of the Baili Bamboo Sea, about 230 km² of continuous bamboo forest in the valleys between a dozen peaks over 1,000 m on Mingyue Mountain, on Liangping's border with Sichuan.
• Beidi Yiyuan Hot Spring Resort 贝迪颐园温泉度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring resort with bathing pools in landscaped grounds at Baishiyi, in Chongqing's western suburbs.
• Changshou Lake 长寿湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large reservoir formed by the Shizitan dam on the Longxi River, completed in 1956 for hydropower, with about 65 km² of water dotted with more than 200 islands.
• Chashan Zhuhai (Tea Hills and Bamboo Sea) 茶山竹海 4A scenic area · on the map
  A national forest park on the hills just north of Yongchuan town, where tea plantations give way to large stands of bamboo crossed by walking trails.
• Chen Duxiu's Former Residence 陈独秀旧居 4A scenic area · on the map
  Shiqiangyuan, a walled Qing-dynasty courtyard house on Heshanping where Chen Duxiu, a founder and the first general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, lived from 1939 until his death in 1942.
• Chen Tuan's Hometown (Chongkan Rapeseed Fields) 陈抟故里 4A scenic area · on the map
  Farmland around Chongkan town, one of the places claimed as the birthplace of the 10th-century Daoist sage Chen Tuan, where the rapeseed fields along the Qiong River turn yellow every March and a taiji (yin-yang) pattern about 236 m across has been planted in the core area.
• Chiyou Jiuli City 蚩尤九黎城 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large hillside complex of Miao-style buildings on the edge of Pengshui town, rated 4A in 2016, with stilt houses, the Jiuli Palace and a ceremonial square, built around the Miao legends of Chiyou and the ancient Jiuli people.
• Chongqing Bonded Goods Experience Zone 重庆保税体验旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A shopping and exhibition zone inside the Lianglu–Cuntan bonded port area of Liangjiang New Area, run by the port's operating company, where imported goods are displayed and sold at a bonded commodity trading centre.
• Chongqing Garden Expo Park 重庆园博园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A landscaped park of about 220 ha around Longjing Lake in Chongqing's northern suburbs, opened in November 2011, with 127 show gardens in the styles of Chinese regions and cities and of several foreign partner cities, set among hills, arched bridges and wetland.
• Chongqing Industrial Culture Park (Chongqing Industrial Museum) 重庆工业文化博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
  An industrial heritage park on the old Chongqing Iron and Steel works at Dadukou, opened in 2019 after the steelworks moved out to Changshou.
• Chongqing Jianchuan Museum 重庆建川博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A cluster of themed museums opened in 2018 by the collector Fan Jianchuan in the wartime air-raid tunnels of the former Hanyang Arsenal, which moved here from Hanyang in Wuhan and became the Nationalist Ordnance Department's First Arsenal.
• Chongqing Jihua Park 重庆际华园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large sports and leisure complex in Longxing, announced in 2016 as an extreme-sports centre, whose facilities include an indoor ski slope.
• Chongqing Natural History Museum 重庆自然博物馆 4A scenic area
  Chongqing's natural history museum, open in its present building at the foot of Jinyun Mountain in Beibei since 2015, with a design based on the spreading roots of the huangge fig, the city tree.
• Chongqing People's Auditorium & People's Square 重庆人民大礼堂 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A vast assembly hall built in 1951–54 for the Southwest regional government, with a domed central hall modelled on Beijing's Temple of Heaven, colonnaded wings, blue-green glazed roofs and red columns.
• Chongqing Planning Exhibition Hall 重庆市规划展览馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  Chongqing's urban-planning museum moved in 2022 from Chaotianmen to a new building on the Nanbin Road riverfront at Danzishi, looking across the Yangtze to the Yuzhong peninsula.
• Chongqing Science and Technology Museum 重庆科技馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  Chongqing's main science museum opened in 2009 in the Jiangbeizui business district beside the Grand Theatre, close to where the Jialing River joins the Yangtze.
• Chongqing Three Gorges Immigration Memorial (Wanzhou Museum) 重庆三峡移民纪念馆 4A scenic area
  Wanzhou's main museum, designed by the architect Cui Kai and opened in 2018, which also serves as the Wanzhou District Museum.
• Chongqing Zoo 重庆动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Chongqing's main zoo, opened in 1955 on 45 hectares of hillside at Yangjiaping, about 8 km south-west of the city centre.
• Ciqikou Ancient Town 磁器口古镇 4A scenic area
  A former river port on the Jialing River whose name, 'porcelain mouth', recalls the pottery trade of the Ming and Qing dynasties, now a busy pedestrian quarter of 12 flagstone lanes lined with old-style shops and snack stalls.
• Da Eling Scenic Area (Eling Park) 大鹅岭 4A scenic area
  A hilltop scenic area on the narrow ridge of the Yuzhong peninsula, rated 4A in 2022 and centred on Eling Park, laid out in 1909 as the villa garden of the merchant Li Yaoting at the highest point of the peninsula.
• Dafengbao Forest, Huangshui 大风堡 4A scenic area · on the map
  The core forest area of Huangshui National Forest Park, which reaches 1,934 m, with dense old woodland and more than 20 marked sights along its trails.
• Damu Flower Valley 大木花谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A flower park on the slopes above Damu, a mountain town at about 1,000 m in south-eastern Fuling that fills with visitors escaping the summer heat.
• Danzishi Old Street 弹子石老街 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  Danzishi grew from the early 19th century around one of the ferry landings on the Yangtze's south bank, opposite the Chaotianmen confluence, and keeps older buildings such as the French Naval Barracks of 1902 and the Wang family compound.
• Diaoyu Fortress 钓鱼城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A Southern Song mountain fortress on Diaoyu Hill, a peninsula where the Jialing, Qu and Fu rivers meet east of Hechuan, which held out against Mongol armies for 36 years from 1243.
• Dieshi Flower Valley 叠石花谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A landscaped valley south of Youyang county town beside the G65 expressway, where the scenic area doubles as an open motorway service area.
• Dongwenquan (East Hot Springs) 东温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring area along the Wubu River in eastern Ba'nan, where springs supply a string of bathing resorts and hotels and a warm, steamy cave, Redong, is used as a natural sauna.
• Fengdu Ghost City 丰都鬼城 4A scenic area
  A hill of temples and shrines on Ming Mountain above the Yangtze at Fengdu, linked since the Song dynasty with the underworld court of Chinese folk religion and Taoism.
• Fenghuang Mountain Lantern Folk Culture Area, Xiushan 秀山凤凰山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hill park at about 600 m on the eastern edge of the Xiushan county town, developed as a showcase for the Xiushan flower-lantern song and dance, a national intangible-heritage tradition.
• Fengsheng Ancient Town 丰盛古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  Fengsheng, in the hills of eastern Ba'nan, grew as an overland trading post, is nicknamed the 'first dry port on the Yangtze' and is listed among China's historic and cultural towns.
• Former Residences of Yang Angong and Yang Shangkun 杨闇公故里 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  The family houses in Shuangjiang of Yang Angong (1898–1927), an early Communist Party organiser in Sichuan who was executed in 1927, and of his younger brother Yang Shangkun, President of China from 1988 to 1993.
• Furong River Scenic Area 芙蓉江 4A scenic area · on the map
  The lower gorge of the Furong River, the largest tributary of the Wu River, a national scenic area since 2002 that runs for 35 km from Haokou to Jiangkou through a V-shaped karst canyon with largely untouched forest on both sides.
• Geleshan Martyrs' Cemetery (Baigongguan and Zhazidong) 歌乐山烈士陵园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A memorial park at the foot of Gele Mountain on ground that in the 1940s held a base of the Nationalist intelligence service (Juntong), where the wartime Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) was also set up, and its two prisons for political detainees: Baigongguan, a former villa, and Zhazidong, a former coal pit.
• Geleshan National Forest Park 歌乐山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A wooded ridge on the western edge of central Chongqing, made a national forest park in 2004, whose highest point, 693 m, is at Yunding Temple.
• Gongtan Ancient Town 龚滩古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  Gongtan stands where the Apeng River flows into the Wu River, facing Guizhou across the water, and was known for its long flagstone street and timber stilt houses propped on the rocky bank.
• Guanyinqiao Shopping District 观音桥商圈 4A scenic area · on the map
  One of central Chongqing's main shopping districts, centred on a pedestrian street and plaza in Jiangbei north of the Jialing River.
• Guanyintang Wetland Park 观音塘湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  An urban wetland park in central Bishan, built in the 2010s as one of the district's main city parks during a programme of river clean-up and new green spaces.
• Guiyuan Town (Jingzhu Village), Fairy Mountain 归原小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A rural tourism project in Jingzhu village on the Fairy Mountain plateau, where old farmhouses have been restored and joined by new buildings of rammed earth, glass and steel, among them a village library with a café and a cluster of boutique guesthouses.
• Gujian Mountain 古剑山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forested mountain near Qijiang town, counted among the 'New Twelve Views of Bayu', where visitors climb for sunrise and seas of cloud from the summit.
• Haichang Caribbean Water World 加勒比海水世界 4A scenic area · on the map
  An outdoor water park on Nanshan, the ridge above the south bank of the Yangtze, run by the Haichang group, with water slides, a children's splash area and a wave pool.
• Hailan Yuntian Hot Spring Resort 海兰云天温泉度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring resort around Hailan Lake in Chongqing's western suburbs, combining outdoor and indoor spring pools with a lakeside hotel, boating and hillside walks over roughly 100 hectares.
• Hanfeng Lake 汉丰湖 4A scenic area
  A lake created in the heart of Kaizhou by a regulating dam that since 2017 has held the water at 170–175 m, so that the falling Three Gorges reservoir no longer leaves bare mudflats around the town.
• Hanhai Ocean Park 汉海海洋公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large aquarium and marine park at Longzhouwan in Ba'nan, with a 360-degree coral-reef tank, a shark hall, an underwater tunnel, a penguin house and the Aegean Theatre for staged shows.
• Happy Valley Chongqing 重庆欢乐谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large theme park opened in July 2017 as the seventh in the Happy Valley chain of the Overseas Chinese Town group, with roller coasters including a wooden coaster and a wing coaster, family rides and stage shows.
• Hong'an Ancient Town (Biancheng) 洪安边城 4A scenic area · on the map
  An old river town where Chongqing, Guizhou and Hunan meet, about 47 km south-east of the Xiushan county town, said to be the model for the setting of Shen Congwen's novella Border Town (Biancheng).
• Hongensi Forest Park 鸿恩寺公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  An urban forest park opened in 2009 on Longji Ridge in Jiangbei, north of the Jialing River, planted with many varieties of osmanthus along themed walks.
• Huanghuacheng Island City 皇华城 4A scenic area · on the map
  An island in the Yangtze that held a walled city of the late Southern Song, the seat of Xianchun Prefecture, and one of the best-preserved Song and Yuan town sites in the reservoir area.
• Huangshan Wartime Capital Sites 重庆黄山抗战旧址群 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  From 1938 to 1946, when Chongqing was China's wartime capital, Chiang Kai-shek and the Military Affairs Commission used a group of villas hidden in the pine woods of Huangshan, a hill in the Nanshan range, as residences and offices.
• Huashi Ancient Fort 滑石古寨 4A scenic area · on the map
  A fortified hamlet on top of a steep, isolated peak in Huashi village, near Shuanggui Temple, used as a military stronghold in the Ming and Qing periods, which keeps old watchtowers, gateways and a stone hall.
• Huatian Rice Terraces 花田梯田 4A scenic area · on the map
  Rice terraces step down the hillsides around Hejiayan village in Huatian township, at an average altitude of about 800 m, and have been farmed for more than 400 years.
• Huayan Temple 华岩寺 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large working Buddhist monastery beside Huayan Lake on the south-western edge of central Chongqing, whose older buildings are protected as a Chongqing municipal heritage site.
• Huguang Guild Hall 湖广会馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A complex of Qing-dynasty guild halls on the Yangtze at Dongshuimen, built by merchants and settlers from Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong who came with the early-Qing migration known as 'Huguang fills Sichuan'.
• Huilong Manor 会龙庄 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large fortified manor at Shuangfeng village on the northern edge of the Simian Mountain area, regarded as one of the finest historic estates in south-west China.
• Jin'ao Rural Park (Jin'ao Mountain) 金鳌田园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A rural leisure area on Jin'ao Mountain in Tiaodeng town, at the southern tip of Dadukou facing the Yangtze, among the nearest countryside to central Chongqing.
• Jindao Gorge 金刀峡 4A scenic area · on the map
  A limestone gorge about 10 km long on the south-western slopes of the Huaying Mountains in north-eastern Beibei, where a stream has cut along a fault into a deep, narrow canyon of potholes and clear pools.
• Jinyun Mountain 缙云山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A forested ridge above the Jialing River on the north-western edge of Beibei, protected as a national nature reserve and long a centre of Buddhism in the Chongqing area.
• Jiuchongtian Scenic Area 九重天 4A scenic area · on the map
  A clifftop attraction at over 1,000 m in Lianhuadong village in the hills of Shuanglu, built from 2015 and opened in 2017.
• Kaizhifeng Peony Scenic Area 恺之峰 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hillside peony park at Mudan village in Taiping town, on the Mingyue Mountains, the centre of Dianjiang's long tradition of peony growing, where many varieties bloom in April and May.
• Kaizhou Museum 开州博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  The district museum of Kaizhou, opened in 2013 on the Civic Square beside Hanfeng Lake, with seven galleries and more than 10,000 objects on the history and culture of the old Kai County.
• Kuizhou Museum 夔州博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  The museum of Fengjie County, long known as Kuizhou, opened in 2017 on the eastern edge of the county town and holds more than 20,000 objects, from carvings the museum attributes to 'Fengjie Man' some 130,000 years ago to a large Chu-style bronze ding, an Eastern Han pottery horse and Song-dynasty porcelain.
• Laitan Ancient Town & Erfo Temple 涞滩古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A walled old town on a hill above the Qu River, dating from the Song dynasty, with Ming- and Qing-era houses, flagstone lanes and a Qing barbican gate, and one of the first ten towns named a Chinese Historic Town in 2003.
• Lanying Grand Canyon 兰英大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A deep canyon near Lanying township in eastern Wuxi, promoted locally as one of the deepest gorges in Asia.
• Lehe Ledu Theme Park 乐和乐都 4A scenic area · on the map
  An animal-themed park on the edge of Yongchuan with a large zoo where giant and red pandas, chimpanzees, elephants, giraffes, lions and tigers can be seen.
• Liangjiang International Film City 两江国际影视城 4A scenic area
  A film and television set built from 2012, first for the film Back to 1942, that recreates wartime Chongqing of the 1930s and 1940s, when the city was China's provisional capital.
• Liu Bocheng Memorial Hall 刘伯承同志纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  A memorial museum to Marshal Liu Bocheng in Shengshan Park in central Kaizhou, opened in December 1992 for the centenary of his birth, with its name written by Deng Xiaoping.
• Liu Bocheng's Former Residence 刘伯承故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  The family home in Zhoudu village, south of the Kaizhou town, where Liu Bocheng, the one-eyed marshal of the People's Liberation Army, was born in 1892.
• Liujia Wharf 鎏嘉码头 4A scenic area · on the map
  A riverside leisure complex on the Beibin Road waterfront in Jiangbei, with restaurants, bars and riverside entertainment by the Jialing River.
• Longqiao River 龙桥河 4A scenic area · on the map
  A karst river valley in Longqiao Tujia Township where a stream fed by an underground river system about 50 km long flows for some 3.7 km at the surface, passing beneath a large natural rock bridge that spans the canyon.
• Longshuixia Fissure Gorge 龙水峡地缝 4A scenic area · on the map
  A deep, narrow slot canyon cut into the limestone south of the Three Natural Bridges, inside the same Wulong Karst World Heritage area.
• Longtan Ancient Town 龙潭古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  Longtan, the main town of eastern Youyang, is a listed Chinese Historical and Cultural Town whose old streets are run as a scenic area.
• Longtouzui Forest Park 龙头嘴森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forest park in the hills of Zishui township in northern Kaizhou, promoted by the district as a forest sports park, with woodland walks and open lawns.
• Marshal Nie Rongzhen Exhibition Hall 聂荣臻元帅陈列馆 4A scenic area
  A memorial museum to Nie Rongzhen, the Jiangjin-born marshal who directed China's nuclear-weapons and satellite programmes, opened in 1999 at the foot of Aiping Mountain on the edge of Jiangjin's urban area.
• Meixin Red Wine Town 美心红酒小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A leisure town beside the Yangtze at Linshi, with Chinese- and European-style buildings, an amusement park, a ferris wheel, riverside guesthouses and the 'Foreigners' Street' that moved here from central Chongqing.
• Mount Puti 菩提山 4A scenic area
  A 598 m hill above Changshou's Puti Ancient Town, named after Bodhidharma according to the county annals, with the Buddhist Puti Temple on its summit.
• Mowei Mountain 摩围山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forested mountain near Pengshui town, at around 1,400 m above sea level, with forest cover of about 91 per cent, listed as one of China's 'forest oxygen bars'.
• Nanmuwan Golden Nanmu Grove 楠木湾 4A scenic area · on the map
  Nanmuwan, in Jinsinan ('golden-thread nanmu') village of Liangzeng township in western Youyang, is known for a large grove of golden-thread nanmu (Phoebe zhennan), a prized hardwood, including several trees more than 1,000 years old.
• Nantian Lake 南天湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain resort area at 1,400–2,000 m about 45 km south of the Fengdu county town, built around a lake in forest that covers nearly nine-tenths of the land.
• Nanwenquan (South Hot Springs) 南温泉 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  Developed as a park from 1927 around hot springs known since the Ming dynasty, Nanwenquan in Ba'nan combines spring baths, boat trips on the Huaxi River, a cliff waterfall and gardens.
• Nanyaojie Red Army Base Sites 南腰界红三军司令部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  In 1934 the Red Third Army, led by He Long and Guan Xiangying, made the small town of Nanyaojie, in the hills of southern Youyang, the centre of its Sichuan–Guizhou revolutionary base area, with headquarters in a Qing-dynasty courtyard house, the Yu family compound.
• Nie Rongzhen's Former Residence 聂荣臻故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  The family home at Langjia village near Wutan where Nie Rongzhen, later a marshal of the People's Liberation Army who led China's nuclear-weapons and satellite programmes, was born in 1899.
• North Hot Spring Park (Beiwenquan) 北温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
  A riverside park at the foot of Jinyun Mountain, on the south bank of the Jialing River's Wentang Gorge, laid out around Wenquan Temple, founded in 423 and rebuilt in 1432.
• Puti Ancient Town (Changshou Ancient Town) 菩提古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A new town built in traditional Ba-Yu style at the foot of Puti Mountain on the edge of Changshou's urban area, rated 4A in 2014, with canals, a main street and old-style buildings including a yamen, an opera stage, a City God temple, a Confucian temple and gate towers.
• Qianjiang City Grand Canyon (Balahu) 黔江城市大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A gorge about 10 km long and some 200 m deep that runs through the middle of Qianjiang city, separating the old town from the new district, developed as a scenic area under the Tujia name Balahu, meaning 'gorge'.
• Qianye Grassland 千野草场 4A scenic area · on the map
  An upland grassland in Yuchi town in northern Shizhu, high enough to stay cool in summer, with open pasture, woods and rocks grazed by cattle and sheep.
• Qicai Dream Garden 黄桷门奇彩梦园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A rural leisure park in Huangjuemen village on the south side of Tongliang, next to Xuantian Lake, with flower fields planted for each season, fruit and vegetable picking, a woodland area and a small Bayu-style village street with shops and guesthouses.
• Red Rock Village (Hongyan) Revolutionary Memorial 红岩村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  The hillside compound by the Jialing River where the Chinese Communist Party's Southern Bureau and the Eighth Route Army's Chongqing liaison office worked from 1939 until early 1947, during the wartime alliance with the Nationalist government.
• Rongchang Xiabu Town 夏布小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A shopping and leisure quarter of 24 courtyard buildings in Ming and Qing style, completed in 2015 and named after xiabu, the ramie cloth whose weaving is one of Rongchang's national intangible heritage crafts.
• Ronghui Hot Spring Town 融汇温泉小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring resort complex at Lishuwan in urban Shapingba, with outdoor and indoor spa pools, a water-play area and hotels.
• Sanhe Lake Wetland Park 三合湖湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  An urban wetland park of about 140 hectares around the Sanhe Lake reservoir in the eastern new district of Dianjiang town, opened in July 2022 with a ring path linking eight zones, wetland planting and an island.
• Sanxia Yuanxiang (Three Gorges Homeland) 三峡原乡 4A scenic area · on the map
  A rural scenic area in the karst uplands of Xinglong Town, opened around 2020, built around a pair of cliffs that locals call Dry Kuimen for their likeness to the gate of Qutang Gorge, and a cave known as Shenxian Cave.
• Shenlong Gorge 神龙峡 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forested gorge near Nanping on the western side of the Jinfo Mountain range, with a walking trail past waterfalls and pools and a rafting run down its stream in summer.
• Shibaozhai 石宝寨 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A sheer rock outcrop on the north bank of the Yangtze in Shibao Town, climbed by a red timber pavilion built against the cliff in the early 19th century and raised from nine to twelve storeys in 1956, with a Buddhist hall on the summit.
• Shisun Mountain (Yunwuping) 石笋山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A pair of forested hills on the border of Jiangjin and Yongchuan, known locally as the 'male' and 'female' Shisun peaks, with a small lake, several Buddhist and Taoist shrines and the old walls of the Yunwuping hill fort.
• Shuanggui Lake National Wetland Park 双桂湖国家湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A lake of about 120 hectares on the south-western side of the Liangping district town, a reservoir of 1951 that was cleaned up from around 2010 and turned into a wetland park of reed beds, channels and small wetlands crossed by boardwalks.
• Shuanggui Temple 双桂堂 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A Chan Buddhist monastery founded in 1653 by the master Poshan Haiming and named after its two osmanthus trees, known as an ancestral seat of Chan in south-west China and listed among the country's key Buddhist temples since 1983.
• Shuangjiang Ancient Town 双江古镇 4A scenic area
  A market town near the south bank of the Fu River, founded in the early Qing and named after the two streams that wind around it, which keeps more than 20 Qing-dynasty courtyard houses along flagstone lanes and small bridges.
• Snowy Jade Cave 雪玉洞 4A scenic area · on the map
  A limestone show cave in Fengdu known for the unusually white, jade-like colour of its formations, which are still growing.
• Songgai Ancient Town 松溉古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A river port on the north bank of the Yangtze in southern Yongchuan, listed among China's historic and cultural towns, whose flagstone streets lead past riverside teahouses with storytellers, the old county yamen and the site of a wartime cotton-spinning mill.
• South Mountain Botanical Garden 南山植物园 4A scenic area
  A large botanical garden on the wooded crest of Nanshan above the south bank of the Yangtze, with themed gardens for roses, camellias, plum blossom and orchids and a garden of rare and endangered plants; its camellia collection is recognised as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence.
• Sun Lake (Taiyang Lake), Huangshui 太阳湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A reservoir lake in the highlands of Huangshui, in the south-east of Huangshui National Forest Park next to the Dafengbao forest, used for angling and water sports and as the venue of an open-water swimming race and the Huangshui triathlon.
• Teyuan (Museum of the History of China's Democratic Parties) 特园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  The mansion of Xian Ying, a wartime supporter of the democratic movement, built in 1929–31 at Shangqingsi; the China Democratic League began here in 1941 as the League of Chinese Democratic Political Groups.
• Three Gorges Ladder City 三峡梯城 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hillside park in the centre of Yunyang's new county town, which was built here from 1999 after the Three Gorges reservoir flooded the old town.
• Three Gorges Light Night Cruise 三峡之光 4A scenic area · on the map
  An evening show cruise launched at Wushan in 2021, on which visitors watch light projections across 152 buildings on both banks, the Goddess Temple and its hills and the Wushan Yangtze bridge, followed by a staged night show in Longmen Gorge.
• Three Gorges Museum 重庆中国三峡博物馆 4A scenic area
  Chongqing's main history museum, opened in 2005 on People's Square opposite the People's Auditorium and one of China's national first-grade museums.
• Three Gorges Summit (Sanxia Zhidian) 三峡之巅 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain-top scenic area opened in 2020 along more than 10 km of the ridge of Chijia Mountain above Kuimen, whose highest point, at 1,388 m, looks down on the Yangtze entering Qutang Gorge.
• Tiankeng Difeng (Xiaozhai Tiankeng & Tianjing Gorge) 天坑地缝 4A scenic area
  A karst area in Xinglong Town made up of Xiaozhai Tiankeng, a vertical-walled sinkhole more than 500 m deep whose name gave geologists the term tiankeng, and Tianjing Gorge, a narrow slot canyon some 37 km long.
• Tianxin Temple (Zhongtai Tianxin Buddhist Culture Area) 天心寺 4A scenic area · on the map
  A Buddhist temple among old trees in the hills of Tianxingsi town in eastern Ba'nan, at the centre of a Buddhist culture area that the district promotes for tea drinking and meditation classes.
• Tieshanping Forest Park 铁山坪森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forested upland on the Tongluo Mountain ridge in the east of Liangjiang New Area, facing Nanshan across the Yangtze.
• Tongjing Hot Spring Scenic Area 统景温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring and gorge scenic area where the Wentang River leaves its gorge at Tongjing, in the far east of Beibei District (until 2025 part of Yubei).
• Tongnan Great Buddha Temple 潼南大佛寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A temple at the foot of Dingming Hill on the Fu River just west of Tongnan town, built against a cliff carved from the Sui to the Republican era with about 126 niches and more than 900 Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian figures.
• Tucheng Old Street (Red Army Street) 土城红军老街 4A scenic area · on the map
  An old street of flagstones, timber eaves and remains of the town wall in the Chengkou county town, laid out in the Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty about 200 years ago.
• Tujia Thirteen Villages (Tujia Shisanzhai) 土家十三寨 4A scenic area · on the map
  A group of 13 Tujia hamlets of wooden stilt houses spread along the Banjia stream in the north of Xiaonanhai town, where around 200 households still live.
• Wanling Ancient Town 万灵古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A historic riverside market town in north-eastern Rongchang, called Lukong until 2013 and listed among China's historic and cultural towns.
• Wansheng Old Street 万盛老街 4A scenic area · on the map
  This old street in central Wansheng recreates Wanshengchang, the market from which the town grew: first called Wanshouchang, it was renamed in the Tongzhi reign of the Qing, when sales of local coal and coke drew merchants and guild halls from Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Huguang.
• Wanshou Mountain, Shizhu 万寿山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A craggy forested mountain at 1,200–1,500 m east of Shizhu county town, topped by the two rock pillars that, in local legend, gave the county its name ('stone pillars').
• Wanzhou Grand Falls (Qinglong Falls) 万州大瀑布 4A scenic area · on the map
  A broad curtain waterfall on the Qinglong River in Ganning Town, 64.5 m high and about 150 m wide, which Wanzhou promotes as the largest waterfall in Asia.
• Wanzhou Riverfront (Three Gorges Pinghu) & Xishan Clock Tower 三峡平湖·西山钟楼 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Wanzhou's riverside parks and promenades along the wide reservoir lake created by the Three Gorges Dam, with the old city wall, Cengong Cave, walks under huangge fig trees, a light show in Yinghuadu Park and evening boat trips on the lit-up river.
• Wenfeng Scenic Area 文峰 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain-top Taoist temple on the north bank at the western mouth of Wu Gorge, first built in the Ming dynasty as Lingyun Temple and rebuilt in 1786 for the Quanzhen Longmen school.
• Western Mushroom Valley 西部菌谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mushroom-themed family park in Lüshui village, Conglin town, north-east of Wansheng, combining fairy-tale play areas for children with a picking area where visitors can gather enoki, shiitake, straw mushrooms and lingzhi.
• Wu Gorge – Goddess Peak Scenic Area 巫峡·神女 4A scenic area
  The land side of Wu Gorge, about 15 km east of Wushan town.
• Wu River Gallery (Pengshui) 乌江画廊 4A scenic area · on the map
  The steep-walled gorge of the Wu River south of Pengshui, part of the roughly 100 km stretch from Pengshui past Gongtan to Yanhe in Guizhou that is known as the 'hundred-li gallery' for its cliffs and dark green water.
• Wulingshan National Forest Park, Fuling 武陵山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forest park on the Wuling Mountains in south-eastern Fuling, centred on the old Damu state forest farm, with dense forest and upland grassland.
• Wushan Museum 巫山博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  The county museum of Wushan, which grew out of the county's cultural relics office, opened in December 2012 and holds more than 50,000 objects; it was rated a national second-grade museum in 2018.
• Xiangguo Park, Dazu 香国公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Dazu's largest city park, covering about 87 ha around two lakes, Miaoshan and Xiangquan, laid out on the theme of Dazu's old name, the 'land of begonia fragrance'.
• Xiaonanhai Lake 小南海 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain lake formed in 1856, when an earthquake brought down a hillside and dammed the Laojiao stream, leaving a natural rubble dam over 1 km long and a lake of about 2.9 km² with three small islands.
• Xiazhuang Village and its Cliff Road 下庄村 4A scenic area · on the map
  A village at the bottom of a deep, cliff-ringed basin in Zhuxian Township that was cut off from the outside until its residents, led by the village Party secretary Mao Xianglin, spent seven years carving an 8 km road along the cliffs.
• Xiliutuo Riverside Town 融汇西流沱 4A scenic area · on the map
  A modern riverside leisure quarter on the Yangtze at Lijiatuo in Ba'nan, developed by the Ronghui property group around Xiliutuo Town, a newly built pedestrian district whose streets, courtyards and terraces are laid out on different levels with a Ba-culture theme.
• Xituo Ancient Town 西沱古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A Yangtze river port facing the Shibaozhai pavilion across the water, which grew rich on the salt and river trade from the Qing dynasty and was named one of China's first historic and cultural towns in 2003.
• Xiuhu Park 璧山秀湖公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large lake park in Bishan, created in the 2010s as one of more than 30 public parks the district built while cleaning up its rivers.
• Xiushan West Street 秀山西街 4A scenic area · on the map
  The old western quarter of the Xiushan county town on both banks of the Meijiang River, the heart of the town since it was founded in 1736, restored as a folk-culture area of about 1 km².
• Xuantian Lake 玄天湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A lake of about 1,500 mu (100 ha) at the foot of Bayue Mountain on the southern edge of Tongliang, landscaped with lakeside running paths and designated, with the mountain, a municipal-level tourist resort in 2022.
• Yangtze River Cableway 长江索道 4A scenic area
  An aerial tramway that has carried passengers across the Yangtze since 1987, spanning 1,166 m between Xinhua Road in Yuzhong and Shangxin Street at Longmenhao on the south bank.
• Youshui River Bend (Hewan Village) 酉水河湾 4A scenic area · on the map
  Hewan is a Tujia village on the Youshui River in Youshuihe town, eastern Youyang, in the valley the county treats as the heartland of its Tujia culture.
• Yunyang Lakeside Greenway 云阳环湖绿道 4A scenic area · on the map
  A greenway of riverside parks around the reservoir lake at Yunyang's county town, which was rebuilt here after the Three Gorges reservoir flooded the old town.
• Zhang Fei Temple 张飞庙 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A temple to Zhang Fei, the Three Kingdoms general whose head, by tradition, was buried here; founded in the late Shu Han period, it stood for centuries on the south bank of the Yangtze opposite the old Yunyang town.
• Zhongshan Ancient Town 中山古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A riverside market town on the Shunxi River in southern Jiangjin, on the northern approach to Simian Mountain, listed as a National Historic and Cultural Town.
• Zhoujunji Hotpot Seasoning Factory Tour 周君记火锅食品工业旅游体验园 4A scenic area · on the map
  The hotpot-seasoning factory of the Zhoujunji company in Zhongliangshan, which has run factory tours since 2006.
• Zhuxi Eco Park 竹溪生态乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A rural leisure park in Zhuxi town, opened in 2021 with Kaizhou's Zhuxi rural-revitalisation zone and themed on the bamboo (zhu) and streams (xi) of its name.
• Chongqing City Walls (Tongyuanmen and Dongshuimen) 重庆古城墙 National heritage site
  Surviving stretches of the walls of old Chongqing, rebuilt in 1373 under the Ming on earlier foundations and set along the cliffs above the Yangtze and Jialing rivers; of the 17 gates only three open gates and one closed gate remain, as much of the circuit was pulled down from the 1920s.
• Chongqing Negotiations Sites (Yiyuan) 重庆谈判旧址群 National heritage site · on the map
  Five wartime residences and offices linked with the 1945 Chongqing negotiations between the Nationalists and the Communists: Chiang Kai-shek's residence, two buildings of his aides' office, the residence of the Nationalist politician Song Ziwen (T. V. Soong), known as Yiyuan, and the residence of Wu Tiecheng.
• Daning Saltworks Site, Ningchang 大宁盐场遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  Ningchang, a narrow valley town north of Wuxi county town, was a major salt-producing centre of south-west China, and this national heritage site at the foot of Baoyuan Mountain covers the remains of its saltworks from the Song dynasty to the Republican era.
• Danzishi Cliff Buddha 弹子石摩崖造像 National heritage site · on the map
  A large seated Buddha carved into the Yangtze riverbank cliff below the former Dafo Temple, completed in 1365 for Ming Yuzhen, who founded the short-lived Xia state with its capital at Chongqing at the end of the Yuan dynasty.
• Early Buildings of Chongqing University 重庆大学早期建筑 National heritage site · on the map
  A group of early buildings on Campus A of Chongqing University in Shapingba: the Science Building, Engineering Building and Wenzi Hall, built in the early 1930s as the university settled here, the Yinchu Pavilion named after the economist Ma Yinchu, and the 'July 7th' wartime auditorium of National Central University, built after that university moved to Chongqing in 1937.
• Former Legislative Yuan, Judicial Yuan and Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission 国民政府立法院、司法院及蒙藏委员会旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  A building at Guanyinyan put up in 1935 as the private Yilin Hospital and taken over from 1937 by the wartime Legislative Yuan, Judicial Yuan, Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission and other government offices.
• Former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government 国民政府外交部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  A two-storey brick-and-timber building mixing Chinese and Western styles, with an upper veranda, inside People's Park in central Yuzhong.
• Former Roosevelt Library 罗斯福图书馆旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  A library built of local stone and timber in 1938–41 for the wartime Chongqing branch of the National Central Library, which became the National Roosevelt Library in 1947 in memory of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only library in China named after a foreign president.
• Former Site of the National Political Council 国民参政会旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  A three-storey brick-and-timber building in mixed Chinese and Western style on Zhonghua Road in the Jiefangbei shopping district, listed as the wartime site of the National Political Council (1938–1946), the advisory assembly in which the Nationalists, the Communists, smaller parties and independents sat together during the war against Japan.
• Former Western China Academy of Sciences 中国西部科学院旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  The 1930s campus of the Western China Academy of Sciences, a private research institute founded in Beibei in 1930 by the shipping entrepreneur Lu Zuofu, which during the war with Japan gave a home to scientific bodies moved from eastern China.
• Guiyuan 桂园 National heritage site
  The house of the Nationalist general Zhang Zhizhong on Zhongshan 4th Road, lent to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai as their working base during the Chongqing negotiations of August–October 1945; the 'Double Tenth Agreement' between the Communists and the Nationalist government was signed here on 10 October 1945.
• Guo Moruo's Former Residences (Third Department and Cultural Work Committee Sites) 郭沫若旧居 National heritage site · on the map
  The two wartime offices of the Third Department of the Military Affairs Commission's Political Department, which ran anti-Japanese propaganda under the writer and historian Guo Moruo from 1938, and of the Cultural Work Committee he led from 1940 until it was disbanded in 1945.
• Jialing River Rural Reconstruction Sites (Lu Zuofu Memorial Hall) 嘉陵江三峡乡村建设旧址群 National heritage site · on the map
  Ten buildings across Beibei left by the rural reconstruction movement that Lu Zuofu led from 1927 as head of the local defence bureau, when he set out to turn the Jialing gorges area into a planned, modern district.
• Jiefangbei (People's Liberation Monument) 解放碑 National heritage site
  The clock tower at the heart of Chongqing's main shopping district, built in 1946–47 as the Monument to the Victory in the War of Resistance on the site of a wartime wooden 'Spiritual Fortress', and renamed the People's Liberation Monument in 1950.
• Jingzhuba Cliff Coffins 荆竹坝岩棺群 National heritage site · on the map
  Coffins placed in natural recesses high in a cliff at Jingzhuba, in the valley north of Wuxi county town, dated to the Han dynasty or earlier.
• Nanshan Rock Carvings, Dazu 南山石刻 National heritage site · on the map
  A small group of Daoist carvings at the Yuhuang Temple on the hilltop about 2 km south of Dazu town, cut mainly in the Southern Song (1131–1162) and one of the five Dazu groups on the World Heritage list.
• Peng Ancestral Hall 彭氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
  A fortress-like clan hall of the Peng family in Liming Village, completed in 1864 after some 20 years of building, whose nine-storey tower rises above the surrounding woods.
• Shimen Great Buddha Temple Cliff Carvings 石门大佛寺摩崖造像 National heritage site · on the map
  Song- to Yuan-dynasty Buddhist carvings in the cliff at Shimen, beside the Yangtze in western Jiangjin, listed as a national heritage site in 2013.
• Shimenshan Rock Carvings, Dazu 石门山石刻 National heritage site · on the map
  A 72 m cliff of Buddhist and Daoist carvings at Shimen village, about 20 km east of Dazu town, cut between 1094 and 1151 and one of the five Dazu groups on the World Heritage list.
• Soong Ching-ling's Former Residence (China Defence League Headquarters) 宋庆龄旧居 National heritage site · on the map
  A German-style brick-and-timber house of 1937 at Lianglukou where Soong Ching-ling, widow of Sun Yat-sen, lived from 1942 to 1945 and ran the China Defence League, the organisation she founded to support China's resistance against Japan.
• Stilwell Museum 史迪威博物馆 National heritage site
  The 1930s house on Jialing New Road that was the home and headquarters of the US general Joseph Stilwell from 1942 to 1944, when he was Allied chief of staff in the China theatre and commanded US forces in China, Burma and India.
• Tianshengcheng Fortress Ruins 天生城 National heritage site
  A natural rock mesa above Wanzhou with sheer cliffs on every side, fortified in the 13th century as one of the Southern Song mountain strongholds against the Mongols; the Song general Shangguan Kui held it through a siege of more than a month, and local tradition says Liu Bei of Shu Han once camped here.
• Tomb of General Zhang Zizhong 张自忠将军墓 National heritage site · on the map
  The grave of Zhang Zizhong, the Nationalist army-group commander killed in Hubei in May 1940 during the Zaoyang–Yichang campaign, the highest-ranking Chinese officer to die in the war with Japan.
• Wartime Bank Buildings of Chongqing 重庆抗战金融机构旧址群 National heritage site · on the map
  Six former bank buildings in the old financial quarter around Datong Street, Xinhua Road and Jiefang East Road, left by the banks that operated here while Chongqing was China's wartime capital.
• Zhang Zhizhong Memorial Hall (Former Political Department of the Military Affairs Commission) 张治中纪念馆 National heritage site · on the map
  A rural compound at Sanshenggong village in Tuzhu, western Shapingba, used from 1938 to 1945 by the Political Department of the Nationalist government's Military Affairs Commission.