Liupanshui 六盘水Liùpánshuǐ

About Liupanshui

Liupanshui grew into a coal and steel centre under the Third Front, the drive from the mid-1960s to move industry inland, and its cool summers have since earned it the nickname 'Cool Capital'. In winter Meihuashan and Yushe Snow Mountain run ski slopes, and in autumn about 1,400 old ginkgo trees turn gold at Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village. Xiaojiucaiping climbs towards the Jiucaiping summit, at 2,900.6 m the highest point in Guizhou.

What to eat in Liupanshui

• Panxian ham (盘县火腿)

Listed sites in Liupanshui

14 sites in Liupanshui are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Baichehe Hot Spring Resort Area 百车河 4A scenic area · on the map
  Baichehe is a river-valley resort area in Panlong town, Shuicheng, built around hot springs and promoted as a summer retreat.
• Dala Xiangu 哒啦仙谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  Dala Xiangu is a leisure-farming and rural-tourism area in Panzhou with a wetland park, a lake, about 300 mu (20 hectares) of coloured flower fields laid out in circular patterns, a cartoon-themed play area and a lakeside hotel.
• Guizhou Third Front Construction Museum 贵州三线建设博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  This museum in Liupanshui's Shuicheng old town is about the 'Third Front', the programme from the mid-1960s to relocate defence and heavy industry to the interior, in which Liupanshui became a coal and steel centre.
• Huilongxi Spa Resort 回龙溪康养休闲度假旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
  Huilongxi is a spa and leisure resort beside Yanjiao old town, with hot-spring baths, a rafting course, a hotel and conference facilities, and ethnic-culture and entertainment attractions.
• Luobie Longjing Hot Spring Resort 落别龙井温泉度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
  Luobie Longjing is a hot-spring resort in the Luobie Buyei-Yi ethnic township, south-east of Liuzhi, with more than 60 soaking pools of different kinds, an indoor and outdoor water park, restaurants, rooms and meeting facilities.
• Meihuashan Scenic Area and Ski Resort 梅花山 4A scenic area · on the map
  Meihuashan is a mountain scenic area of about 40 sq km on the edge of Liupanshui, rising to about 2,499 m, with a resort park laid out in the shape of a plum blossom, a ski area first built in 2015 and a mountain cable car of nearly 10 km.
• Shengjing Hot Spring Resort 胜境温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
  Shengjing Hot Spring is a hot-spring resort of about 6.3 sq km in Liuguan subdistrict, Panzhou, combining indoor and outdoor pools with a waterfall, a wave pool, a cave-style soaking pool and a children's water park.
• Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village 妥乐古银杏 4A scenic area · on the map
  Tuole is a village of about 1,400 old ginkgo trees in Shiqiao town, Panzhou, where wooden walkways, viewing platforms and a path through the old village have been built among the trees.
• Wumeng Grassland 乌蒙大草原 4A scenic area · on the map
  Wumeng Grassland is a plateau of pasture and dwarf rhododendron at about 2,000 to 2,857 m in Panzhou, with a high lake called Tianchi, a natural-bridge canyon on the Qingshui river and a ski area.
• Xiaojiucaiping (Zhongshan side) 小韭菜坪 4A scenic area · on the map
  Xiaojiucaiping ('small chive plateau') is the Liupanshui-side approach to the Jiucaiping range and its summit, at 2,900.6 m the highest point in Guizhou, on the border with Hezhang County.
• Yushe Forest Park and Snow Mountain 玉舍森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Yushe National Forest Park, in the hills of Shuicheng District south of central Liupanshui, is best known for Yushe Snow Mountain, which the city describes as Guizhou's first alpine ski resort.
• Zangke River Scenic Area 牂牁江 4A scenic area · on the map
  Zangke River is a broad stretch of river water in southern Liuzhi, about 51 sq km of water surface at around 724 m above sea level, with an outdoor-sports base at Laowang Mountain.
• Dadong Site 大洞遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  Dadong is a karst cave in Panzhou where excavations in 1992 and 1993 found Palaeolithic stone tools and large numbers of animal fossils; the city tourism page counts more than 2,000 stone artefacts and nearly 10,000 fossils to date, and published age estimates range from about 100,000 to 300,000 years.
• Xiaochong Tombs, Panzhou 小冲墓群 National heritage site · on the map
  Xiaochong is a hillside burial ground of the Zhang and Deng families behind Huatun in Hanlin Subdistrict, Panzhou, with more than 130 graves dating from the Qing dynasty onwards.

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Learn more

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