Listed sites in Jiangsu 江苏

359 scenic areas and heritage sites from the official lists, by city. 153 have a page of their own; the rest open as cards on the map.

Listed sites: 359
Rated 5A: 21
Rated 4A: 223
National heritage: 178
Region: Jiangsu

The A-level rating is the national grading of scenic areas, 5A being the top tier; national heritage sites are the buildings, ruins, tombs and carvings protected by the State Council. Both lists are on the lists page.

5A scenic areas in Jiangsu

CCTV Wuxi Film and TV Base (Three Kingdoms & Water Margin Cities) 无锡影视基地 5A scenic area · on the map
A film and television base built by China Central Television on the shore of Lake Tai from 1987, whose 5A part is made up of Three Kingdoms City and Water Margin City, full-scale sets of palaces, naval camps and old streets built for the 1990s television series of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.
China Dinosaurs Park 中华恐龙园 5A scenic area · on the map
A dinosaur-themed amusement park in Xinbei District, opened in 2000, with rides, shows and parades built around its theme.
Chunqiu Yancheng (Yancheng Ruins) 春秋淹城 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The earthworks of Yancheng, a walled town of the late Spring and Autumn period, form the core of this tourist area in Wujin: three rings of ramparts and three moats set one inside another, an arrangement rare among early Chinese city sites.
Dafeng Milu (Père David's Deer) Park 中华麋鹿园 5A scenic area · on the map
The visitor area of the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve on the Yellow Sea coast, where Père David's deer (milu), which had died out in China, were brought back in 1986 with 39 animals from British zoos; the reserve now holds the world's largest wild population of the species.
Grand Buddha at Ling Shan 灵山大佛 5A scenic area
A Buddhist complex on the north shore of Lake Tai, centred on an 88 m bronze standing Buddha, including its lotus base, consecrated in 1997 and assembled from about 2,000 cast panels weighing 725 tonnes in all.
Haohe River Scenic Area 濠河 5A scenic area · on the map
The Haohe is Nantong's old city moat, dug by the 10th century and still ringing the historic centre in a gourd-shaped loop about 10 km long that widens from 10 m to more than 200 m.
Hongze Lake Wetland, Sihong 洪泽湖湿地 5A scenic area · on the map
A wetland scenic area in the shallows of north-western Hongze Lake, China's fourth-largest freshwater lake, forming part of the Sihong Hongze Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve.
Huishan Ancient Town 惠山古镇 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A cluster of ancestral halls and their gardens, 108 of them dating from the Tang dynasty to the Republican era, along two old streets at the eastern foot of Mount Hui, combined with neighbouring Xihui Park into one scenic area that also takes in Huishan Temple, Jichang Garden and the hilltop Longguang Pagoda.
Jinji Lake 金鸡湖 5A scenic area
The lake at the centre of Suzhou Industrial Park, the modern district east of the old city, turned from a shallow marshy lake into a ring of waterfront parks and promenades under a landscape plan of 2003.
Jinshan, Jiaoshan and Beigushan 金山·焦山·北固山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Zhenjiang's three classic Yangtze hills are managed as one scenic area but are separate parks several kilometres apart.
Lake Tai Scenic Area, Wuzhong (Dongshan, Qionglong & Wangshan) 吴中太湖旅游区 5A scenic area · on the map
A 5A scenic area on the eastern shore of Lake Tai in Suzhou's Wuzhong district, made up of three separate parts: the Dongshan peninsula, Qionglong Mountain and the Wangshan valley.
Lian Island 连岛 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Jiangsu's largest island, joined to the mainland at Lianyungang port by a long sea wall, with wooded hills, the sandy Dashawan beach and the quieter Sumawan bay linked by a seaside boardwalk.
Mount Huaguo 花果山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The mountain that the novel Journey to the West made the home of the Monkey King, now a scenic area of 136 peaks crowned by Yunü Peak, at 624.4 m the highest point in Jiangsu.
Mount Mao (Maoshan) 茅山 5A scenic area
A low range on the Jurong–Jintan border, rising to 372.5 metres at Damao Peak, revered as the birthplace of the Shangqing school of Taoism and called by Taoists the 'eighth grotto-heaven and first blessed land'.
Qinhu Lake National Wetland Park 溱湖 5A scenic area · on the map
Qinhu was Jiangsu's first national wetland park and China's second, a lake and marshland in the Lixiahe lowlands where wetland covers most of the park and hundreds of wild plant and animal species have been recorded, Père David's deer among them.
Shajiabang & Yushan–Shanghu Scenic Area 沙家浜·虞山尚湖旅游区 5A scenic area
A two-part 5A scenic area in Changshu, a county-level city north-east of Suzhou.
Tianmu Lake and Nanshan Bamboo Sea 天目湖 5A scenic area
Tianmu Lake is a reservoir in the hills south of Liyang, built in 1958–61 as the Shahe Reservoir and renamed in 1992 when it was opened for tourism.
Tongli Ancient Town 同里古镇 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A canal town of more than a thousand years on the edge of Wujiang, crossed by waterways and old stone bridges and named in 2003 among the first ten historic and cultural towns of China.
Yuantouzhu 鼋头渚 5A scenic area
A rocky headland on the north shore of Lake Tai shaped like a turtle's head, developed from 1916 by Wuxi businessmen with lakeside villas and gardens and now a large park of wooded hills, pavilions, rock inscriptions and wide lake views.
Yunlong Lake 云龙湖 5A scenic area
A lake on the south-western edge of central Xuzhou, enlarged from low-lying ground into a reservoir and now the heart of a 5A scenic area, framed by green hills on three sides with Yunlong Mountain to the east.
Zhou Enlai's Hometown: Former Residence and Memorial Hall 周恩来故里 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People's Republic of China, was born in 1898 in this pair of Qing courtyard houses on Fuma Lane and lived here until 1910; restored in 1978 and opened in 1979, its 32 rooms show his birth room, family rooms, an old well and displays on his childhood.

By city

Changzhou (17) · Huai'an (24) · Lianyungang (17) · Nanjing (56) · Nantong (16) · Suqian (10) · Suzhou (75) · Taizhou (18) · Wuxi (43) · Xuzhou (21) · Yancheng (27) · Yangzhou (26) · Zhenjiang (9)

Changzhou 17 sites

China Dinosaurs Park 中华恐龙园 5A scenic area · on the map
A dinosaur-themed amusement park in Xinbei District, opened in 2000, with rides, shows and parades built around its theme.
Chunqiu Yancheng (Yancheng Ruins) 春秋淹城 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The earthworks of Yancheng, a walled town of the late Spring and Autumn period, form the core of this tourist area in Wujin: three rings of ramparts and three moats set one inside another, an arrangement rare among early Chinese city sites.
Tianmu Lake and Nanshan Bamboo Sea 天目湖 5A scenic area
Tianmu Lake is a reservoir in the hills south of Liyang, built in 1958–61 as the Shahe Reservoir and renamed in 1992 when it was opened for tourism.
Changzhou Museum 常州博物馆 4A scenic area
Changzhou's main city museum, founded in 1958 and housed since 2007 in a large modern building beside the civic square in Xinbei District.
China Filial Piety Park 中华孝道园 4A scenic area · on the map
A themed park of about 860 mu (some 57 hectares) on the shore of Lake Tai at Xueyan, backed by the Lu'e hills and devoted to the Confucian virtue of filial piety.
Former Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army, Shuixi 新四军江南指挥部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The Li family ancestral hall in Shuixi village, where the New Fourth Army set up its Jiangnan Command on 7 November 1939 under Chen Yi, with Su Yu as deputy, to direct its anti-Japanese operations around Maoshan and southern Jiangsu.
Hongmei Park 红梅公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large city park east of Changzhou's old centre, opened in 1960 and named after the Hongmei (Red Plum) Pavilion, one of its two old buildings together with the Wenbi Pagoda.
Huagu Qiyuan Flower Valley 花谷奇缘 4A scenic area · on the map
A commercial flower park in the Maoshan resort area, laid out as ten themed gardens with a hillside of planted flower fields.
Maoshan Forest World 茅山森林世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An outdoor activity park covering about 3,500 mu (some 230 hectares) of forest and bamboo on the Jintan side of Maoshan, with forest-themed attractions such as a 'magic black forest' and a rafting run through the woods.
Old Grand Canal and Nandajie District 古运河南大街 4A scenic area · on the map
The historic centre of Changzhou along the old course of the Grand Canal, combining Nandajie, the city's main pedestrian shopping street, with canal-side Xiyingli, where Xiying Gate and about 220 metres of wall are all that survive of the city walls.
Oriental Salt Lake City (Dao Tianxia) 东方盐湖城·道天下 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern leisure resort at the foot of Maoshan, the Taoist holy mountain, themed on Taoist culture and on the area's hills, water, tea, salt, herbs and hot springs.
Qingfeng Park 青枫公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large public park in western Changzhou, opened in 2008 after four years of building and laid out with lakes, low man-made hills, woodland and a big central lawn.
World Joyland 环球动漫嬉戏谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme park on the shore of Lake Tai at Xueyan in Wujin, opened in 2011 and built around video-game and animation themes, with roller coasters and other rides.
Former Residence of Qu Qiubai 瞿秋白故居 National heritage site · on the map
The Qu family ancestral hall on Yanling West Road, where Qu Qiubai, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party and a writer and translator, lived with his family from 1912 to 1916.
Former Residence of Zhang Tailei 张太雷故居 National heritage site
The house in Zihe Li, a lane off Qingliang Road, where Zhang Tailei, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, lived with his family from 1918 to 1925.
Jin Garden 近园 National heritage site
A small private garden laid out in 1668–1672 by the retired official Yang Qingyan, with the painter Wang Hui involved in its design, and counted among Changzhou's four classic gardens.
Tang Family Residences, Qingguo Lane 唐氏民宅 National heritage site · on the map
Two Ming-dynasty courtyard houses of the Tang family on Qingguo Lane, a restored historic street along an old arm of the Grand Canal in central Changzhou.

Huai'an 24 sites

Zhou Enlai's Hometown: Former Residence and Memorial Hall 周恩来故里 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People's Republic of China, was born in 1898 in this pair of Qing courtyard houses on Fuma Lane and lived here until 1910; restored in 1978 and opened in 1979, its 32 rooms show his birth room, family rooms, an old well and displays on his childhood.
Ancient Huai River Culture and Ecology Scenic Area 古淮河文化生态景区 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside park of about 1.6 km² along the Gu Huai He, the old channel of the Yellow River, which flowed through Huai'an until 1855, on the north side of Qingjiangpu; Ninglian Road divides it into two parts.
Baima Lake Eco-Tourism Area 白马湖生态旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Baima Lake is a shallow lake on the border of Huai'an and Yangzhou that also serves as a through-lake for the eastern route of the South–North Water Diversion.
China Water Transport (Caoyun) Museum 中国漕运博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
China's first museum devoted to caoyun, the imperial system that shipped tax grain along the Grand Canal to the capital, opened in May 2011 on Caoyun Square in Huai'an's old town.
Diyishan (First Mountain) and its Inscriptions 第一山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A wooded hill above the Huai River in the north of Xuyi town, named after the Song calligrapher Mi Fu, who climbed it in 1097 on his way to a post in Lianshui and wrote a poem calling it the "First Mountain"; a later copy of his three characters stands by the entrance.
Dragon Palace Ocean World (Journey to the West Culture Park) 龙宫海洋世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme-park complex in Huai'an's economic development zone built around Journey to the West, the Ming novel credited to Huai'an's Wu Cheng'en.
Former Residence of Wu Cheng'en 吴承恩故居 4A scenic area
Wu Cheng'en, the Ming writer credited with the novel Journey to the West, lived in this courtyard house in the Hexia quarter of Huai'an; it was restored in 1982 and is a city-level protected site.
Hongze Lake Levee (Gaojiayan) and Ancient Dike Scenic Area 洪泽湖大堤 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The great dike along the east shore of Hongze Lake was begun as a 30-li embankment in AD 200 and extended under the Ming and Qing to hold back the lake, protect the plains to the east and feed water to the Grand Canal; between 1580 and 1751 its lake face was clad with a wall of dressed stone about 60 km long and 7–8 m high.
Huai'an Museum 淮安市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
Huai'an's museum of local history, rated a national first-grade museum in 2024, holds about 31,000 objects.
Huai'an Prefectural Yamen 淮安府署 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The seat of Huai'an Prefecture from 1370 until prefectures were abolished in 1913, on the old town's central axis north of the Governor-General of Grain Transport's office and the Zhenhuai Tower.
Huanghuatang New Fourth Army Headquarters Site 黄花塘新四军军部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Huanghuatang village in southern Xuyi County was the seat of the New Fourth Army's headquarters from early 1943 to early 1945, during the later years of the war against Japan.
Inner Canal (Liyunhe) Cultural Corridor 里运河文化长廊 4A scenic area · on the map
The Liyunhe, the section of the Grand Canal between the Yangtze and the Huai, runs 32 km through Huai'an, and this scenic corridor centres on a 15.6 km stretch through Qingjiangpu.
Jinhu Lotus Marsh (Hehuadang) 荷花荡 4A scenic area · on the map
A wetland of about 22 km², most of it water, on the shore of Gaoyou Lake in south-eastern Jinhu County, planted with lotus fields that bloom in summer.
Jinhu Water Forest 金湖水上森林 4A scenic area · on the map
A plantation of metasequoia (dawn redwood) standing in water in Tugou town, Jinhu County, planted in the 1980s as northern Jiangsu's largest man-made forest farm and opened as a privately run scenic area in 2017.
Jinshiyuan (King's Luck) Distillery, Gaogou 今世缘旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
The baijiu maker Jiangsu King's Luck (Jinshiyuan), successor to the old Gaogou distillery, runs a factory tour at its base in Gaogou town that is listed as a national industrial-tourism demonstration site.
Ming Ancestors Mausoleum 明祖陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The first imperial tomb of the Ming dynasty, built from 1386 to about 1413 by the Hongwu Emperor and his son the Yongle Emperor beside Hongze Lake for the founder's grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather; only the grandfather is actually buried here.
Qing Yan Garden 清晏园 4A scenic area
A garden in central Qingjiangpu that grew from a lodge set up in 1678 by the river-works chief Jin Fu on the site of a Ming revenue office, and from 1729 belonged to the office of the Director-General of the Southern Rivers, who ran the river and canal works of the region.
Tieshan Temple National Forest Park 铁山寺国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested area of low hills, up to about 200 m, in the far south of Xuyi County on the Anhui border, around the 9 km² Tianquan Lake reservoir.
Wudao Lake Scenic Area, Lianshui 五岛湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake park in the middle of Lianshui town, laid out in 1930 around a lake with five small islands, grouped with the neighbouring Nengren Temple and the Lianshui County Museum into one scenic area.
Former Site of the CPC Central China Sub-bureau 中共中央华中分局旧址 National heritage site · on the map
From October 1945 to September 1946 the Central China Sub-bureau of the Communist Party's Central Committee and the Central China Military Region had their headquarters here, in the former Jiangsu Provincial Huai'an Middle School, directing party, government and military work in 73 counties and cities under Deng Zihui and Tan Zhenlin, with Zhang Dingcheng and Su Yu in military command.
Former Site of the Jiangsu–Anhui Border Region Government 苏皖边区政府旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The Jiangsu–Anhui Border Region Government, set up by the Communist Party on 1 November 1945 to join its four liberated areas in central and northern Jiangsu and Anhui, had its seat in this compound in Qingjiang, now Huai'an, until it withdrew in September 1946.
Qingliangang Neolithic Site 青莲岗遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The site that gave its name to the Qingliangang culture, a Neolithic culture of the Huai River region, lies in Qinglian village north-east of Huai'an District and was first investigated in the early 1950s; new excavations in 2016–19 opened nearly a hectare.
Wentong Pagoda 文通塔 National heritage site
An octagonal seven-storey brick pagoda, 23 m tall with yellow walls and dark eaves, in Shaohu Park in the north-west corner of Huai'an's old city beside the canal.
Yue Pagoda (Yueta), Tangji 月塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Song-dynasty brick pagoda in Yueta village, Tangji town, in eastern Lianshui County.

Lianyungang 17 sites

Lian Island 连岛 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Jiangsu's largest island, joined to the mainland at Lianyungang port by a long sea wall, with wooded hills, the sandy Dashawan beach and the quieter Sumawan bay linked by a seaside boardwalk.
Mount Huaguo 花果山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The mountain that the novel Journey to the West made the home of the Monkey King, now a scenic area of 136 peaks crowned by Yunü Peak, at 624.4 m the highest point in Jiangsu.
Chaohe Bay, Guanyun 潮河湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural leisure area on a reed-fringed stretch of water east of Guanyun county town, with an eco-restaurant, a fishing centre and a campervan and camping base.
Dayi Mountain, Guanyun 大伊山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A cluster of twelve low peaks, the highest 226.7 m, on the northern edge of Guanyun county town, with the centuries-old Stone Buddha Temple (Shifo Si), a large bronze seated Buddha completed in 2009 and old rock carvings such as a Yuan-dynasty sika deer.
Donghai Crystal City and Crystal Museum 东海水晶城·水晶博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The crystal quarter of Donghai, a county that brands itself the 'World Crystal Capital' because of its large deposits of rock crystal and quartz.
Erlang Shen Cultural Park, Guannan 二郎神文化遗迹公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A temple park on the northern outskirts of Guannan county town devoted to Erlang Shen, the river-taming god of Chinese myth whom Journey to the West places at the mouth of the Guan River, a name the town links with its own Guan River.
Haishang Yuntai Mountain 海上云台山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain area in the coastal Yuntai hills above Sucheng, in Lianyun district, whose summit viewpoints look over Lianyungang port and Lian Island.
Kongwang Mountain 孔望山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A small hill on the southern edge of Haizhou, Lianyungang's old town, named after the story that Confucius climbed it to look out to sea.
Lianyungang Museum 连云港市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city's main museum, a national first-grade museum that presents the history and culture of the Lianyungang area.
Lianyungang Revolutionary Memorial Hall 连云港市革命纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum of the Lianyungang area's modern revolutionary history, including the War of Resistance against Japan, told through photographs and objects.
Qinshan Island 秦山岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A narrow islet of about 0.19 km² in the sea off Ganyu, roughly a kilometre long with three low peaks along its ridge.
Tanggou Distillery, Guannan 汤沟酒生态文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A visitor area at the working distillery of Tanggou baijiu, a strong-aroma liquor made in Tanggou town, where the old workshops were merged into one state distillery in 1952.
Taohuajian and the General Cliff Petroglyphs 桃花涧·将军崖岩画 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A wooded valley on the southern slopes of Jinping Mountain, south-west of Haizhou, with a stream, pools and paths up to a summit viewpoint; its western part holds the General Cliff petroglyphs.
Xishuang Lake, Donghai 西双湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir on the south-western edge of Donghai county town, built in 1960 on the Yuejin River, whose shores are now laid out as the Xishuang Lake National Wetland Park.
Yiyuan Park, Guanyun 伊园 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure park east of Guanyun county town built around large flower fields and a fairy-tale-style small town, with children's play areas and themed restaurants.
Yuwan Scenic Area 渔湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A steep valley in the Yuntai Mountains east of Mount Huaguo, where a stream drops through a chain of waterfalls and pools, known as the Three Pools, between cliffs and woods that turn red and gold in late autumn.
Haiqing Temple Pagoda 海清寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda built between 1023 and 1031 under the Northern Song, the only survivor of Haiqing Temple, which has since disappeared.

Nanjing 56 sites

Chaotian Palace 朝天宫 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Rebuilt from 1384 as Nanjing's leading Taoist temple, where the Ming court's Taoist registry sat and officials rehearsed court ceremonies, the complex on Yeshan hill was wrecked in the Taiping war and rebuilt in 1865–69 as the Confucian temple and school of Jiangning prefecture.
Gaochun Cittaslow (Yaxi) 高淳国际慢城 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural area of low hills, tea gardens and villages around Yaxi in eastern Gaochun, which became China's first member of the international Cittaslow ('slow city') network and hosts the network's China office.
Gaochun Old Street 高淳老街 4A scenic area · on the map
The old main street of Chunxi, Gaochun's district town, which grew up as a market street from the Song dynasty and is lined with Ming- and Qing-period shop-houses now selling local snacks, crafts and souvenirs.
Great Bao'en Temple Heritage Park 大报恩寺遗址公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The site of the Great Bao'en Temple, rebuilt by the Yongle Emperor from 1412 on the site of the older Changgan Temple, whose nine-storey, 78 m pagoda faced with white porcelain and glazed tiles was famous in Europe as the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing until it was blown up in 1856 during the Taiping war.
Happy Valley Nanjing 南京欢乐谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A large theme park in Qixia District, opened in November 2020 as the eighth park of China's Happy Valley chain.
Hongshan Forest Zoo 红山森林动物园 4A scenic area
A zoo of about 68 hectares spread over three wooded hills in northern Nanjing, Xiao Hongshan, Da Hongshan and Fangniu Shan, which opened in 1998 when the old Xuanwu Lake Zoo moved here.
Jinniu Lake 金牛湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Nanjing's largest artificial lake, a reservoir built in 1958 on the Babai River in the far north of Liuhe District, near the borders of Tianchang and Yizheng and overlooked by Jinniu Hill.
Jinniu Lake Wildlife Kingdom 金牛湖野生动物王国 4A scenic area · on the map
A safari park on the west shore of Jinniu Lake, laid out over hillsides and former quarry pits and holding more than 300 species of animals.
Meishan Steel Industrial Culture Tourism Area 梅钢工业文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
An industrial tourism area inside the Meishan steelworks on Nanjing's south-western edge, a plant begun in the late 1960s as the '9424' project to supply iron to Shanghai and now one of Baosteel's main production bases.
Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall 梅园新村纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The group of houses in the Meiyuan Xincun residential quarter where the Communist Party delegation led by Zhou Enlai lived and worked from May 1946 to March 1947, during its negotiations with the Nationalist government in Nanjing.
Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders 侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The memorial museum to the victims of the mass killings carried out by Japanese troops after they captured Nanjing, then China's capital, on 13 December 1937.
Mochou Lake Park 莫愁湖公园 4A scenic area
A lake park in western Nanjing, west of the Qinhuai River and Hanzhongmen, laid out around Mochou Lake, which takes its name from Mochou, a virtuous young woman of local legend.
Nanjing Eye Footbridge & Hexi Riverside 南京眼 4A scenic area
A riverside park area of about 61 hectares on both banks of the Jiajiang, the arm of the Yangtze between Nanjing's Hexi new town and Jiangxinzhou island, taking its name from the Nanjing Eye, a cable-stayed footbridge across the channel.
Nanjing Museum 南京博物院 4A scenic area
Jiangsu's provincial museum, founded in 1933 as the preparatory office of the National Central Museum, with a collection of more than 400,000 objects that is especially strong in Ming and Qing imperial porcelain.
Nanjing Science and Technology Museum 南京科技馆 4A scenic area · on the map
Nanjing's main science museum, set beside Huashen Lake in Yuhuatai District, with hands-on halls on scientific principles, space and the Earth.
Niushoushan 牛首山 4A scenic area
A twin-peaked hill south of Nanjing, a Buddhist centre since the Southern Dynasties and the birthplace of the Niutou school of Chan, redeveloped as a Buddhist cultural park that opened in 2015 to enshrine a relic venerated as part of the Buddha's skull, found in 2008 in the crypt beneath the old Bao'en Temple.
Pearl Spring Scenic Area 珍珠泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill-and-lake scenic area at the eastern foot of Laoshan in Pukou, facing the Yangtze, named after a spring whose bubbles rise in strings like pearls and praised in Ming and Qing times as the finest outing north of the river.
Pingshan Forest Park 平山森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill park of about 22 km² in Liuhe District, north of the Yangtze, which the district describes as its largest green conservation area, with forest cover of more than 85% and a highest point of 161 m.
Presidential Palace, Nanjing 南京总统府 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A 9-hectare compound on Changjiang Road that was in turn a Ming prince's mansion, the office of the Qing viceroy of Liangjiang, the palace of the Taiping Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, the seat of Sun Yat-sen's provisional presidency in 1912 and the headquarters of the Nationalist government and presidency until 1949.
Qixia Mountain & Qixia Temple 栖霞山·栖霞寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A low wooded hill above the Yangtze north-east of Nanjing, known for its red autumn maples, with Qixia Temple at its western foot, founded in 489 in the house of the recluse Ming Sengshao and regarded as the ancestral seat of the Sanlun (Madhyamaka) school of Chinese Buddhism; its present halls date from a rebuilding begun in 1919.
Tangshan Zhiqing Lake Resort 汤山紫清湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A large hot-spring resort in the Tangshan spa area east of Nanjing, developed over more than a decade, combining hotels, outdoor hot springs and a wildlife park.
Tianshengqiao, Lishui 天生桥 4A scenic area · on the map
A natural-looking stone bridge over the Yanzhi River, a canal that the Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang had a large labour force cut through a ridge in Lishui in 1393–1395, to link the Qinhuai River with the Taihu waterways for grain transport.
Xuanwu Lake 玄武湖 4A scenic area
A lake of about 10 km round just north of the old city, bounded on the west and south by the Ming city wall and looking east to Purple Mountain, which has been an imperial park and pleasure ground since the Six Dynasties.
Yangshan Quarry 阳山碑材 4A scenic area · National heritage site
An ancient stone quarry in the hills near Tangshan where, from 1405, the Yongle Emperor had a vast memorial stele cut for his father's tomb, the Ming Xiaoling, using a huge labour force.
Yangtze River Crossing Victory Memorial Hall 渡江胜利纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum on the Yangtze waterfront where the Qinhuai River enters it, about the April 1949 campaign in which the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze and took Nanjing, then the Nationalist capital.
Youzi Mountain 游子山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded range of low hills in eastern Gaochun, whose name ('the wanderer's mountain') comes from a tradition, recorded in a Song-dynasty gazetteer, that Confucius passed this way on his journey to the state of Chu.
Yuejiang Tower 阅江楼 4A scenic area
A seven-storey tower in Ming style on Lion Hill in north-western Nanjing, completed in 2001 to realise a building that the Hongwu Emperor ordered in 1374 but never finished, and which was known for six centuries only through essays such as Song Lian's 'Record of Yuejiang Tower'.
Yuhuatai (Rain Flower Terrace) 雨花台 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A ridge of low hills just south of Zhonghua Gate, named after a legend that flowers rained from the sky when the monk Yunguang preached here in 503.
Yunyougu Scenic Area 云幽谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure park in the hills of Tangquan, at the western edge of Pukou District, that combines countryside scenery with a farm-themed amusement park.
Drum Tower of Nanjing 南京鼓楼 National heritage site
Built in 1382 on a rise at the centre of the Ming capital, where drums sounded the hours and ceremonies were held, the tower keeps its original brick base, shaped like a city gate with three arched passages on each side.
Former Academia Sinica Buildings 国立中央研究院旧址 National heritage site
Three buildings of the Academia Sinica, the Republic of China's national research academy, all designed by Yang Tingbao in a Chinese palace style: the Institute of Geology of 1931, where Li Siguang led research from 1932 to 1937, the Institute of History and Philology of 1936, and the headquarters of 1947, where the academy elected its first academicians in 1948.
Former Beijige Meteorological Observatory 北极阁气象台旧址 National heritage site
On the 62 m summit of Beiji Ge (Jilong Hill), used for watching the sky since the 5th century and the site of the Ming imperial observatory, Zhu Kezhen founded the Academia Sinica's Institute of Meteorology in 1927, and in 1930 the Qing Beiji pavilion was replaced by an observatory, regarded as the start of modern meteorological research in China.
Former British Embassy, Nanjing 英国驻华使馆旧址 National heritage site
Known locally as the Little White Building, this was the seat of the British legation in Nanjing, raised to an embassy in 1935; the embassy moved to Chongqing in 1938, returned in 1946 and closed in 1949.
Former Macklin Hospital 马林医院旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The first building of the mission hospital that grew into today's Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, a two-storey brick block of 1892 in American colonial style, named after its first director, the Canadian missionary doctor Macklin, with round-arched windows, dormers and a doorway bearing the date.
Former Nanjing Office of the Eighth Route Army 八路军驻京办事处旧址 National heritage site
A two-storey 1930s Western-style house that belonged to Zhang Boling, president of Nankai University, and was rented in August 1937 as the Nanjing office of the Communist-led Eighth Route Army, after the Communists and Nationalists agreed to cooperate against Japan.
Former National Central University 中央大学旧址 National heritage site
Southeast University's Sipailou campus keeps the core of the former National Central University, the national university of Republican-era Nanjing, with buildings mostly of the 1920s and 1930s in a Western classical revival style.
Former Residence of Gan Xi 甘熙故居 National heritage site
Begun in the Jiaqing reign (1796–1820) by Gan Fu, father of the scholar Gan Xi, this large family compound of linked courtyards in the old south of the city is popularly called the Gan Family Mansion.
Ginling College Campus 金陵女子大学旧址 National heritage site
The campus of Ginling College, a Christian women's college founded in 1913, built in 1922–23 to a plan by the American architect Henry Murphy, with Chinese palace-style buildings in reinforced concrete set symmetrically around a great lawn and linked by covered walkways.
Jinling Arsenal (Chenguang 1865 Creative Park) 金陵兵工厂旧址 National heritage site
Founded by Li Hongzhang in 1865 as the Jinling Machinery Bureau, at the time China's largest arsenal, it made guns and ammunition for his Huai Army, was renamed the Jinling Arsenal in 1929 and moved its production to Chongqing in 1937.
Jinling Scriptural Press 金陵刻经处 National heritage site
A Buddhist publishing house founded in 1866 by the lay scholar Yang Wenhui (Yang Renshan), often called the father of China's modern Buddhist revival, who taught figures such as the monk Taixu and the scholar Zhang Taiyan here.
John Rabe House 拉贝故居 National heritage site
The house where John Rabe, the Siemens representative in Nanjing and chairman of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, lived from 1932 to 1938 and wrote his diaries of the Nanjing Massacre; during the massacre he sheltered hundreds of Chinese refugees in the house and its garden.
Liji Lane Comfort Station Exhibition Hall 利济巷慰安所旧址陈列馆 National heritage site
A group of two-storey houses built in 1935 as a residential estate, which from the end of 1937 served the Japanese army as 'comfort stations' where women, many from the Korean peninsula, were held for sexual slavery.
Longjiang Treasure Shipyard Site 龙江宝船厂遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The dockyard by the Yangtze in north-western Nanjing where the great 'treasure ships' of Zheng He's early-15th-century voyages are believed to have been built, listed as the site of the Ming Longjiang shipyard.
Ming Palace Ruins 明故宫遗址 National heritage site
The ruins of the early Ming imperial palace, the model for Beijing's Forbidden City, which decayed after the court moved to Beijing in the 1420s and was later cut in two by an airfield and by Zhongshan East Road in the 1920s.
Nanjing Great Hall of the People 南京人民大会堂 National heritage site
Built in 1935–36 as the National Assembly Hall, where the Republic of China's National Assembly met in 1946 and 1948, this four-storey hall on Changjiang Road pairs a modern symmetrical façade with simplified Chinese ornament and seats more than 3,400; it now hosts Nanjing's annual congress sessions and stage performances.
Nanjing Man Site (Tangshan Ape-Man Cave) 南京古猿人洞 National heritage site
Hulu (Gourd) Cave on the northern slope of Tangshan, a limestone cave where workers found two fossil human skulls and many mammal fossils in 1993; the skulls belong to Homo erectus and are known as Nanjing Man.
Pukou Railway Station 浦口火车站 National heritage site
The British-designed southern terminus of the Tianjin–Pukou Railway on the north bank of the Yangtze, opened in 1914, where passengers from the north crossed by ferry to Nanjing until the Yangtze River Bridge opened in 1968.
Putang Bridge 蒲塘桥 National heritage site
A nine-arched stone bridge across the Putang River in Putang village, Honglan, rebuilt in 1508–1512 with money from the local Zhao brothers on the line of the old post road from Lishui to Xuancheng.
Qiqiaoweng Bridge 七桥瓮 National heritage site
A seven-arched Ming stone bridge over the Qinhuai River south-east of the old city, completed in 1440 and first called Shangfang Bridge after the nearby gate of the Ming outer wall.
Southern Dynasty Tomb Sculptures, Nanjing 南京南朝陵墓石刻 National heritage site
Winged lions (bixie), qilin, steles on stone tortoises and fluted columns that once lined the spirit ways to the tombs of Southern Dynasties emperors and princes of the 5th and 6th centuries, still standing in the open at sites scattered across Nanjing's eastern and southern suburbs, mostly in Qixia and Jiangning districts.
Taiping Murals on Tangzi Street 堂子街太平天国壁画 National heritage site
A late-Qing courtyard house on Tangzi Street, just inside Hanzhongmen, which the Taiping rebels took over after capturing Nanjing in 1853 and used as an office and later a minor prince's residence, painting its walls and wooden partitions.
Tomb of the King of Boni 浡泥国王墓 National heritage site
The tomb of Maharaja Karna (Abdul Majid Hassan), ruler of Boni, a state on Borneo sometimes considered a forerunner of modern Brunei, who came to the Ming court in Nanjing in 1408 and died there that autumn at the age of 28.
Two Mausoleums of the Southern Tang 南唐二陵 National heritage site
The underground tombs of the first two rulers of the Southern Tang, a 10th-century kingdom based in Nanjing, at the southern foot of Zutang Hill: the Qinling of the founder Li Bian and the Shunling of his son Li Jing.
University of Nanking Campus 金陵大学旧址 National heritage site
The former campus of the University of Nanking, a university sponsored by American churches, laid out in the 1910s on a north–south axis in the manner of an American campus, with buildings that pair Chinese hip roofs and grey-brick walls with Western structures and materials.
Yangliu Village Historic Buildings 杨柳村古建筑群 National heritage site · on the map
A village of Qing-dynasty mansions at Hushu in southern Jiangning, built mainly in the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns between Machang Hill and Yangliu Lake; of its 36 original compounds, 17 were still fairly complete when surveyed in 1982.
Zhan Garden 瞻园 National heritage site
Regarded as the oldest surviving private garden in Nanjing, it was begun in the Ming dynasty by a descendant of the founding general Xu Da in the grounds of the family mansion, and named after an inscription by the Qianlong Emperor, who stayed here.

Nantong 16 sites

Haohe River Scenic Area 濠河 5A scenic area · on the map
The Haohe is Nantong's old city moat, dug by the 10th century and still ringing the historic centre in a gourd-shaped loop about 10 km long that widens from 10 m to more than 200 m.
Dieshiqiao Home Textile Market 叠石桥国际家纺城 4A scenic area · on the map
Diesiqiao in Sanxing town is a vast wholesale market district for bedding, curtains and other home textiles, built up over some forty years and described by provincial media as the world's largest home-textile cluster, with more than 2,500 firms.
Hai'an Museum and Han's Mansion 海安博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Hai'an Museum is spread over a modern main building and Han's Mansion (Han Gongguan), the 1906 family residence of Han Guojun, a late-Qing official who governed Jiangsu in 1913 and again in 1922–25 and in old age refused to serve the Japanese-backed regime.
Langshan (Wolf Hill) 狼山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Langshan is a low hill on the Yangtze shore south of Nantong, the highest of five small hills grouped as a scenic area and counted among China's eight lesser Buddhist mountains.
Nantong Forest Safari Park 南通森林野生动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large wildlife park on Nantong's northern outskirts covering about 2 km², which the city says holds nearly 20,000 animals of some 300 species.
Red 14th Army Memorial Hall 红十四军纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
This memorial hall in a park on the east side of Rugao covers the 14th Red Army, formed in 1930 from Communist guerrilla bands in the Nantong, Haimen, Rugao and Taixing countryside and formally founded at a rally south-west of Rugao that April.
Rugao Bonsai Park (Penjing Daguan) 盆景大观 4A scenic area · on the map
Rugao calls itself China's capital of flowers and bonsai, and its Rugao school, known for trees shaped with a 'cloud head, rain feet and beauty's waist', is counted among the country's seven main schools of penjing.
Seyuan Garden 啬园 4A scenic area · on the map
Seyuan is a large wooded park in Nantong's southern suburbs, counted by the city as one of its biggest botanical gardens and the burial place of Zhang Jian (1853–1926), the scholar-industrialist who built the Dasheng cotton mills and Nantong Museum.
Shuihui Garden 水绘园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Shuihui Garden in Rugao was begun by the Mao family in the late Ming and became the home of the scholar Mao Xiang (Mao Pijiang) and the courtesan Dong Xiaowan, whose romance made it famous.
Tonghai Land Reclamation Company Site 通海垦牧公司旧址 4A scenic area · on the map
Zhang Jian founded the Tonghai Land Reclamation Company here in 1901 to turn coastal salt flats into cotton farms for his Dasheng mills; it is regarded as China's first agricultural joint-stock company.
Wonderful Farm 奇妙农场 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm-themed leisure park of about 53 hectares on Nantong's northern edge, opened in October 2021 and rated 4A in December 2024.
Zhouji Green Expo Park 洲际绿博园 4A scenic area · on the map
A botanical park in Nantong's Tongzhou district that the city says holds more than 8,000 plant species gathered from around the world.
Dasheng No. 3 Cotton Mill 大生三厂旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Zhang Jian opened his third Dasheng cotton mill here in 1921, at Sanchang near the Yangtze east of Haimen.
Nantong Museum 南通博物苑 National heritage site
Founded in 1905 by the industrialist and educator Zhang Jian, Nantong Museum is regarded as the first public museum set up by a Chinese founder, laid out as a garden with exhibition halls among lawns, ponds and trees.
Qingdun Neolithic Site 青墩遗址 National heritage site
Villagers digging a canal in 1973 found this settlement of about 5,000 years ago, and three seasons of excavation in the late 1970s followed; the city calls it the best-preserved Neolithic site in the eastern Jianghuai plain.
Tianning Temple, Nantong 天宁寺 National heritage site
Founded in the Tang dynasty as Baoen Guangxiao Temple and given its present name in 1457, Tianning Temple is the old heart of Nantong: the 10th-century city was laid out on an axis running from the temple to Langshan.

Suqian 10 sites

Hongze Lake Wetland, Sihong 洪泽湖湿地 5A scenic area · on the map
A wetland scenic area in the shallows of north-western Hongze Lake, China's fourth-largest freshwater lake, forming part of the Sihong Hongze Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve.
China Poplar Museum, Siyang 中国杨树博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum in Siyang county devoted to the poplar.
Dragon King Temple Palace, Zaohe 龙王庙行宫 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A temple to the Dragon King beside the Grand Canal and Luoma Lake in Zaohe town, first built in the Kangxi reign and rebuilt in 1727 and 1813, where the Qianlong Emperor lodged on five of his six southern tours; it is popularly called the Qianlong Palace.
Lakeside Park, Suqian 湖滨公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A public park on the southern shore of Luoma Lake, in Suqian's Hubin new district and the Luoma Lake tourist resort.
Santai Mountain National Forest Park 三台山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park on low wooded hills on the northern edge of Suqian city.
Shennong Era Agricultural Park, Yanghe 神农时代文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern agricultural theme park near Yanghe town, named after Shennong, the legendary inventor of farming.
Shuanggou Distillery, Sihong 双沟酒文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A visitor area at the Shuanggou distillery in Shuanggou town, home of Shuanggou Daqu, a strong-aroma baijiu.
Xiang Yu's Hometown 项王故里 4A scenic area · on the map
A park in southern Suqian on the traditional birthplace of Xiang Yu, the Chu warlord who fought Liu Bang for control of China after the fall of the Qin and died in 202 BC.
Xuefeng Park, Suqian 雪枫公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial park of about 21 hectares in Suqian city, opened in 2007 in memory of Peng Xuefeng, a New Fourth Army commander killed in 1944, and others who fought in the War of Resistance against Japan.
Yanghe Distillery 洋河酒厂文化旅游区 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The home of Yanghe, one of China's largest baijiu makers, in Yanghe town south-east of Suqian, where a visitor route runs through the working distillery.

Suzhou 75 sites

Jinji Lake 金鸡湖 5A scenic area
The lake at the centre of Suzhou Industrial Park, the modern district east of the old city, turned from a shallow marshy lake into a ring of waterfront parks and promenades under a landscape plan of 2003.
Lake Tai Scenic Area, Wuzhong (Dongshan, Qionglong & Wangshan) 吴中太湖旅游区 5A scenic area · on the map
A 5A scenic area on the eastern shore of Lake Tai in Suzhou's Wuzhong district, made up of three separate parts: the Dongshan peninsula, Qionglong Mountain and the Wangshan valley.
Shajiabang & Yushan–Shanghu Scenic Area 沙家浜·虞山尚湖旅游区 5A scenic area
A two-part 5A scenic area in Changshu, a county-level city north-east of Suzhou.
Tongli Ancient Town 同里古镇 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A canal town of more than a thousand years on the edge of Wujiang, crossed by waterways and old stone bridges and named in 2003 among the first ten historic and cultural towns of China.
Baimajian Eco-Park 白马涧生态园 4A scenic area · on the map
A park of about 1.5 km² in the wooded hills on Suzhou's western edge, west of Fengqiao in the High-tech District, which the city calls the district's 'green lung'; legend makes the valley a horse farm of the King of Wu.
China Embroidery Art Museum, Zhenhu 中国刺绣艺术馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum of embroidery in Zhenhu, a lakeside subdistrict west of Suzhou known for Su embroidery, where more than 8,000 local people work as embroiderers.
Dayangshan National Forest Park 大阳山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park covering Yangshan, a wooded range of hills on the north-western edge of Suzhou whose main peak, Jianque Peak (338 m), is the second-highest around the city.
Fangta Pagoda (Chongjiao Xingfu Temple Pagoda) 方塔 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Changshu's 'Square Pagoda' is the surviving pagoda of Chongjiao Xingfu Temple, begun in 1130 and rebuilt in 1272.
Grand Canal at Pingwang (Wujiang Canal Culture Area) 吴江运河文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
The old town of Pingwang in southern Wujiang, where the Ditang canal from Huzhou joins the Grand Canal at Yingdou Lake, rated a 4A scenic area in 2023.
Guangfu Scenic Area (Xiangxuehai & Situ Temple) 光福景区 4A scenic area · on the map
A group of sights around Guangfu, a town in the hills by Lake Tai west of Suzhou, managed as one scenic area with its visitor centre beside Situ Temple.
Hanshan Temple 寒山寺 4A scenic area
A Buddhist temple at Fengqiao, about 5 km west of Suzhou's old city, facing the old canal; tradition dates it to 502–519 and names it after the legendary monk-poet Hanshan, said to have been its abbot in the Tang.
Jingsi Garden 静思园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large private garden in classical Suzhou style, built over ten years from 1993 by a local entrepreneur in the countryside of Wujiang.
Jinxi Ancient Town 锦溪古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A canal town among the lakes of south-west Kunshan, called Chenmu from 1512 until 1992 after the 'water tomb' of a Song imperial consort, Consort Chen, on an islet in Wubao Lake beside the town.
Jiyang Lake Eco-Tourism Area 暨阳湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A large lake park on the southern side of central Zhangjiagang, with lakeside paths, gardens and lawns around the water.
Jusha Pagoda, Meili 聚沙塔 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A brick pagoda in the small town of Meili, north-east of Changshu, first built in the Southern Song dynasty between 1131 and 1162.
Lili Ancient Town 黎里古镇 4A scenic area
A well-preserved canal town in the south-east of Wujiang near the borders with Shanghai and Zhejiang, laid out as one canal with a street along each bank.
Lion Grove Garden 狮子林 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A garden founded in 1342 by disciples of the Chan monk Tianru as part of a Buddhist monastery, named after its Taihu rocks, which are said to look like lions.
Luzhi Ancient Town & Baosheng Temple 甪直古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A canal town east of Suzhou whose old quarter keeps Ming- and Qing-style houses along its waterways and many old stone bridges, a few from the Song and Ming dynasties; in 2003 it was named one of China's first historic and cultural towns.
Master of the Nets Garden 网师园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A small residential garden first laid out in the Southern Song as an official's library retreat and rebuilt in the Qianlong era by Song Zongyuan, who renamed it after the fisherman, the 'master of the nets', as a symbol of the simple life.
Mudu Ancient Town 木渎古镇 4A scenic area
An old canal town at the foot of Lingyan Hill on Suzhou's western edge, named a national historic and cultural town in 2005, which the Qianlong Emperor visited six times and which fills half of the 18th-century scroll Prosperous Suzhou.
Pan Gate & Ruiguang Pagoda 盘门 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The only original gate left from Suzhou's city wall, a combined land and water gate at the south-west corner of the old city where the moat meets the Grand Canal; the present gate was built in 1351 under the Yuan, with a square barbican added in 1356, and it is a component of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site.
Pingjiang Road Historic District 平江历史街区 4A scenic area
A historic quarter in the north-east of Suzhou's old city, laid out along Pingjiang Road and the Pingjiang canal, which have run side by side for some 800 years and already appear on the city map of 1229.
Qiandeng Ancient Town 千灯古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site
An old canal town south of Kunshan, threaded by a stone-slab street.
Shangfang Mountain National Forest Park 上方山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill on the shore of Shihu Lake on Suzhou's southern edge, protected as a national forest park and known for remains linked to the ancient states of Wu and Yue.
Shantang Street 山塘街 4A scenic area
A canal street in north-west Suzhou that follows the Shantang canal, dug in 825 under the poet and prefect Bai Juyi to link Changmen gate with Tiger Hill; street and canal run for 'seven li' (about 3.8 km), the source of its nickname.
Shaxi Ancient Town 沙溪古镇 4A scenic area
An old market town on the Qipu River in the middle of Taicang, named a national historic and cultural town of China in 2005.
Suzhou Amusement Land Forest World 苏州乐园森林世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest-themed amusement park at the foot of Dayang Mountain in Suzhou's western New District, opened after the original Suzhou Amusement Land of 1997 closed in 2017.
Suzhou Bay Golden Lakeshore 苏州湾黄金湖岸 4A scenic area · on the map
A waterfront leisure area of about 200 hectares on the shore of East Lake Tai in Suzhou Bay, the new lakeside district of Wujiang, made up of the East Lake Tai Ecological Park, the Suzhou Bay Plaza Park, a lakeside viewing platform, a restaurant quarter and a yacht club.
Suzhou Imperial Kiln Gold Brick Museum 御窑金砖博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum in Suzhou's Xiangcheng district beside the old Lumu imperial kilns, which in the Ming and Qing dynasties fired the fine clay floor tiles known as 'gold bricks' for the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace.
Suzhou Lake Tai National Wetland Park 苏州太湖国家湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national wetland park of about 230 hectares on the shore of Lake Tai at Zhenhu, in Suzhou's High-tech District, made by turning former fish ponds back into lakeside wetland.
Taicang Modern Agricultural Park (Rose Manor) 太仓现代农业园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large modern farming park of about 8,000 mu (533 hectares) in northern Taicang, run as a showcase for agricultural technology and ecology.
Tianchi Mountain & Huashan (Jijian Temple) 天池山·花山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Two wooded hills west of Suzhou, Tianchi Mountain and Huashan, which with the neighbouring Baixiangwan valley form one scenic area inside the Dongwu National Forest Park.
Tianping Mountain 天平山 4A scenic area · on the map
A low hill on Suzhou's western outskirts, long linked with the Song statesman Fan Zhongyan, whose ancestors are buried here and who is honoured in a memorial hall.
Tinglin Park, Kunshan 亭林园 4A scenic area · on the map
Kunshan's main city park, laid out in 1906 as Ma'anshan Park around Yufeng Hill (Ma'anshan) in the north-west of the city and renamed in 1936 after the scholar Gu Yanwu, known as Master Tinglin.
Xiangshan Scenic Area, Zhangjiagang 香山 4A scenic area · on the map
Zhangjiagang's highest hill, at 136.6 m, a wooded ridge in Jingang (formerly Nansha town) west of the city centre, laid out as a scenic area of about 4.4 km² with plum groves, the Peach Blossom Brook valley, a lake and Buddhist halls.
Xishan Island 西山 4A scenic area · on the map
The largest island in Lake Tai, a hilly landscape of orchards and villages joined to the mainland by the Taihu Bridge, with Piaomiao Peak as its high point.
Yonglian Village Scenic Area 永联村 4A scenic area · on the map
Yonglian is a village in Nanfeng town whose rolling mill, set up by the village committee in 1984, grew into the Yonggang steel group.
Zhenze Ancient Town & Ciyun Temple Pagoda 震泽古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A former silk town in the south-west of Wujiang on the Zhejiang border, a national historic and cultural town whose old quarter centres on Baota Street.
Beisi Pagoda (Bao'en Temple) 北寺塔 National heritage site
The pagoda of Bao'en Temple in the north of Suzhou's old city, a nine-storey, eight-sided brick-and-timber tower about 76 m high with wooden eaves and balconies on every floor.
Caiyi Hall, Weng Family Residence 䌽衣堂 National heritage site · on the map
The main hall of the Weng family residence in Changshu's old town, a late-Ming building whose beams and pillars carry painted decoration regarded as a leading example of Suzhou-style colour painting.
Canglang Pavilion 沧浪亭 National heritage site
The oldest of Suzhou's surviving classical gardens, laid out in the mid-1040s by the Song poet Su Shunqin on the site of a Five Dynasties garden and named after a line in the Songs of Chu about the clear and muddy waters of the Canglang.
Caoxieshan Archaeological Site Park 草鞋山遗址 National heritage site
A Neolithic settlement near Yangcheng Lake, first inhabited about 6,000 years ago, whose deep layers record the Majiabang, Songze and Liangzhu cultures in one continuous sequence.
Carved Building (Chunzai Lou) 雕花楼 National heritage site
A mansion in Dongshan town on the Dongshan peninsula, formally named Chunzai Lou, built in 1924 by craftsmen of the Xiangshan building tradition and covered with intricate carved decoration.
Chuihong Bridge Ruins 垂虹断桥 National heritage site · on the map
The surviving end sections of the Chuihong Bridge, which crossed the Wusong River outside the east gate of old Wujiang.
Couple's Retreat Garden 耦园 National heritage site
A garden on the east edge of the Pingjiang historic district, surrounded by canals on three sides, rebuilt in the late 19th century by the retired official Shen Bingcheng, who withdrew here with his wife; 'ou' means a pair, hence the name.
Dongmiao Bridge 东庙桥 National heritage site · on the map
A bridge from the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279) over the Henggu waterway in Dongmiaoqiao village, Qidu, near the southern shore of Lake Tai in Wujiang district.
Dongshan Ming Residences (Mingshan Hall) 东山民居 National heritage site · on the map
Three old mansions on the Dongshan peninsula of Lake Tai listed together as a national monument: Huaiyin Hall and Mingshan Hall in Yangwan village, and Ningde Hall in Wengxiang, home of the late-Ming physician Wu Youxing.
Former Residence of Liu Yazi 柳亚子旧居 National heritage site
A Qing mansion in Lili old town, Cifu Hall, built for Zhou Yuanli, a Minister of Works under the Qianlong Emperor; the poet and political activist Liu Yazi (1887–1958) rented two of its six ranges from 1922.
Former Residence of Zhao Yongxian (Yushan Guqin Museum) 赵用贤宅 National heritage site
A Ming-dynasty house in Changshu's old town that belonged to the Ming official Zhao Yongxian (1535–1596) and his son Zhao Qimei, both noted book collectors.
Garden of Cultivation 艺圃 National heritage site
A scholar's garden of the Ming dynasty hidden in a lane near Changmen gate, built in 1541 by Yuan Zugeng and later owned by Wen Zhenmeng, great-grandson of the painter Wen Zhengming, and by the scholar-official Jiang Cai, whose son gave it its present name.
Jiachen Lane Brick Pagoda 甲辰巷砖塔 National heritage site
A miniature five-storey, eight-sided brick pagoda that imitates a timber pagoda in the details of its eaves, brackets, doors and windows.
Lingering Garden 留园 National heritage site
One of Suzhou's largest classical gardens, begun in 1593 by the official Xu Taishi outside Changmen gate, rebuilt by Liu Shu in 1794–1798 and given its present form and name by Sheng Kang in 1873–1876.
Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty 环秀山庄 National heritage site
A very small garden on Jingde Road almost entirely taken up by an artificial mountain of Taihu rock, built in 1807 by the rockery master Ge Yuliang, with a winding path through it and a pool around its foot.
Old Campus of Soochow University 东吴大学旧址 National heritage site
The original campus of Soochow University, founded by American Methodist missionaries in 1900, which now forms the southern half of Soochow University's main campus in the east of the old city.
Pan Family Mansion (Ligeng Hall) 卫道观前潘宅 National heritage site
A large Qing merchant mansion just east of Pingjiang Road, built in 1787 by Pan Linzhao, a merchant from Huizhou, and known by the name of its main hall, Ligeng Tang.
Precious Belt Bridge 宝带桥 National heritage site
A long, low stone bridge of 53 arches that carries the old towpath of the Grand Canal across the mouth of Tantai Lake, south-east of Suzhou.
Prince Zhong's Mansion (Suzhou Museum) 太平天国忠王府 National heritage site
The residence and offices that the Taiping commander Li Xiucheng, the Loyal Prince (Zhong Wang), built from 1860 out of existing mansions and gardens next to the Humble Administrator's Garden; it was still unfinished when Qing forces under Li Hongzhang retook Suzhou in 1863, and later served as the Jiangsu governor's office and a guild hall.
Quanjin Guild Hall (China Kunqu Opera Museum) 全晋会馆 National heritage site
A guild hall built by Shanxi merchants trading in Suzhou, first founded outside Changmen gate in 1765 and rebuilt on its present site off Pingjiang Road in 1879 after the original was burnt in 1860.
Retreat & Reflection Garden 退思园 National heritage site
A late-Qing garden in Tongli built in 1885–1887 for Ren Lansheng, an official dismissed from his post in Anhui, and designed by the painter Yuan Long; its name comes from a line in the Zuo Zhuan about reflecting on one's faults in retirement.
Shijian Hall 师俭堂 National heritage site
A Qing merchant compound in Zhenze old town, the ancestral property of the town's Xu family, which combined trade and family life on one site.
Siben Bridge 思本桥 National heritage site · on the map
A bridge from the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), also called Sifen Bridge, in Lianxing village (formerly Liaobang village of Tongli), about 1.5 km west of Tongli old town.
Suzhou Confucian Temple (Stone Inscription Museum) 苏州文庙 National heritage site
Suzhou's Confucian temple and prefectural school, founded in 1035 by the statesman Fan Zhongyan, who joined temple and school in a pattern later copied across China; it now houses the Suzhou Stone Inscription Museum.
Tianfei Palace, Liuhe 浏河天妃宫 National heritage site · on the map
A temple to Tianfei (Mazu), goddess of seafarers, in Liuhe, the old port of Liujiagang near the mouth of the Liu River, from which Zheng He's fleets set out on their voyages to South-east Asia and the Indian Ocean between 1405 and 1433.
Tiger Hill & Yunyan Temple Pagoda 虎丘 National heritage site
A small hill on the north-west edge of Suzhou where King Helü of Wu is said to have been buried in the 5th century BC, and a celebrated beauty spot for well over a thousand years.
Twin Pagodas (Luohan Temple) 罗汉院双塔 National heritage site
A matching pair of seven-storey, eight-sided brick pagodas built in 982 under the Northern Song by Wang Wenhan and his brothers, the main survivors of the Luohan (later Dinghui) Temple.
Wanfo Stone Pagoda, Zhenhu 万佛石塔 National heritage site · on the map
A stone pagoda first built in the Song dynasty and rebuilt under the Yuan, standing at Wanfo Temple in Zhenhu on the eastern shore of Lake Tai.
Xiancan Temple (Silk Patrons' Shrine), Shengze 先蚕祠 National heritage site · on the map
A shrine to the patron deities of silk, the Yellow Emperor, Shennong and Leizu, built in 1840 by the silk merchants of Shengze, with a main hall, an opera stage and a meeting hall that also housed the silk trade guild.
Xuanmiao Temple 玄妙观 National heritage site
A Taoist temple in the heart of Suzhou's old city, founded in 276 and facing the busy Guanqian Street shopping street.
Xuanyuan Temple, Dongshan 轩辕宫 National heritage site · on the map
A temple at the west end of Yangwan, an uncommercialised village of old houses on the Dongshan peninsula, first built to honour Wu Zixu, the minister of the ancient state of Wu, and rededicated to the Yellow Emperor in the Republican era, which gave it its present name.
Yan Garden, Changshu 燕园 National heritage site
A small classical garden in Changshu's old town, laid out in 1780 by Jiang Yuanshu, a former prefect of Taiwan.
Yang Family Mansions, Tianzhuang Old Street 杨氏宅第 National heritage site · on the map
Qing-dynasty mansions of the Yang family, a local gentry family, on Tianzhuang Old Street in Fenghuang town, a canal-side street of white-walled, black-tiled houses.
Yanzi Shrine, Changshu 言子祠 National heritage site · on the map
A shrine to Yan Yan (Ziyou), the disciple of Confucius who came from the southern state of Wu and was honoured as the 'Master of the South'.
Yuan-Dynasty Stone Arch Bridges of Taicang 太仓石拱桥 National heritage site
Five stone arch bridges built under the Yuan dynasty between 1329 and 1334, close in date and style and listed together.
Zhang Pu Residence 张溥宅第 National heritage site
A late-Ming house on Ximen Street in Taicang's old town, built in the Tianqi and Chongzhen reigns (1621–1644) by Zhang Fuzhi, uncle of the writer Zhang Pu (1602–1641), who led the Restoration Society (Fushe), an influential late-Ming association of scholars.
Zijin Nunnery 紫金庵 National heritage site
A small Buddhist temple in the hills of the Dongshan peninsula, its present halls built in the Ming and Qing, whose main hall is filled with painted clay figures of Buddhas, Guanyin, guardian kings and celestial beings.

Taizhou 18 sites

Qinhu Lake National Wetland Park 溱湖 5A scenic area · on the map
Qinhu was Jiangsu's first national wetland park and China's second, a lake and marshland in the Lixiahe lowlands where wetland covers most of the park and hundreds of wild plant and animal species have been recorded, Père David's deer among them.
Daohe Historic Quarter 稻河 4A scenic area · on the map
Just outside Taizhou's old north gate, the Daohe quarter is the city's main surviving block of old houses, lining the Daohe and Caohe rivers with Hanxi Street on one bank and five parallel lanes on the other.
Fengcheng River Scenic Area 凤城河 4A scenic area · on the map
The Fengcheng River is the old moat that rings Taizhou's historic centre, landscaped with waterside parks and walks and plied by sightseeing boats.
Guluotang Old Street Quarter 古罗塘 4A scenic area · on the map
Guluotang is a restored and partly rebuilt old-street quarter along North Street in the centre of Jiangyan.
Huangqiao Campaign Memorial Hall 新四军黄桥战役纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
In October 1940 the Communist-led New Fourth Army under Chen Yi and Su Yu defeated the Nationalist 89th Army of Jiangsu governor Han Deqin around Huangqiao, a clash within the wartime alliance that secured the Communists a base in central Jiangsu.
Kou'an Carved Mansion 口岸雕花楼 4A scenic area · on the map
The Diaohualou ('carved building') is a merchant's mansion of the Qing and early Republican periods in the old town of Kou'an near the Yangtze, with two-storey main buildings and side wings around a square courtyard richly decorated with wood, brick and stone carving.
Lizhong Water Forest 李中水上森林 4A scenic area · on the map
The Lizhong Water Forest is a man-made wetland forest begun in the early 1980s, when villagers planted pond cypress and dawn redwood on raised plots in waste marshland north-west of Xinghua.
Qintong Ancient Town 溱潼古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Qintong is a Ming- and Qing-era water town at the meeting of the Jiangxing and Taidong rivers, listed as one of China's historic and cultural towns in 2005.
Qiuxue Lake Eco-Park 秋雪湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A large eco-park of lakes, wetlands and farmland on the north-eastern edge of Taizhou's main urban area, combining modern farming with waterside walks and leisure attractions.
Shagou Ancient Town 沙沟古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Shagou is an old water town in the far north-west of Xinghua, where five counties meet, long a market centre for the fish and rice of the Lixiahe plain and named a China Historic and Cultural Town in 2010.
Zheng Banqiao and Fan Zhongyan Memorial Hall 郑板桥·范仲淹纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
This memorial museum in Xinghua's old town honours two men tied to the city: the painter and calligrapher Zheng Banqiao (Zheng Xie, 1693–1766), born in Xinghua and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, known for his ink orchids, bamboo and rocks, and the Song statesman Fan Zhongyan, who served as Xinghua's magistrate in the 1020s and led the building of sea dykes along this coast.
PLA Navy Birthplace Memorial Hall 海军诞生地纪念馆 National heritage site · on the map
On 23 April 1949, at Baimamiao, then the headquarters of the Third Field Army's eastern command for the Yangtze crossing, the East China Military Region Navy was formed under Zhang Aiping, a date the PLA later adopted as the navy's founding day.
Rishe Garden (Qiao Garden) 日涉园 National heritage site
Built in 1574 for the Ming official Chen Yingfang and later called Qiao Garden after a Qing salt commissioner who owned it, Rishe Garden is regarded as the oldest surviving classical garden in northern Jiangsu.
Shangchizhai Pharmacy 上池斋药店 National heritage site
Shangchizhai was founded in the Kangxi–Yongzheng period by Fang Shichuan of Yangzhou and named after a line in Sima Qian's biography of the physician Bian Que; its shop buildings date from the Qing and Republican periods.
Taizhou City God Temple 泰州城隍庙 National heritage site · on the map
Taizhou's City God Temple was founded in the Tang, rebuilt in 1439 and restored in 1853, and is now used as a Taoist temple.
Tianmushan Site 天目山遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The Tianmushan site is the remains of a walled settlement of the Western Zhou, flourishing about 3,100 years ago where the New Tongyang Canal meets the Jiangqin River on Jiangyan's northern edge.
Xinghua Duotian Raised Fields 兴化垛田 National heritage site · on the map
Duotian are small island fields, each ringed by water, that farmers in the low-lying Lixiahe marshes have worked for more than 600 years.
Xuezheng Examination Hall 学政试院 National heritage site
From the Kangxi era until the abolition of the imperial examinations, candidates from the counties of Yangzhou prefecture sat the licentiate examination (yuanshi), set by the Jiangsu education commissioner, in this hall; it is the only fairly complete compound of its kind left in Jiangsu.

Wuxi 43 sites

CCTV Wuxi Film and TV Base (Three Kingdoms & Water Margin Cities) 无锡影视基地 5A scenic area · on the map
A film and television base built by China Central Television on the shore of Lake Tai from 1987, whose 5A part is made up of Three Kingdoms City and Water Margin City, full-scale sets of palaces, naval camps and old streets built for the 1990s television series of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.
Grand Buddha at Ling Shan 灵山大佛 5A scenic area
A Buddhist complex on the north shore of Lake Tai, centred on an 88 m bronze standing Buddha, including its lotus base, consecrated in 1997 and assembled from about 2,000 cast panels weighing 725 tonnes in all.
Huishan Ancient Town 惠山古镇 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A cluster of ancestral halls and their gardens, 108 of them dating from the Tang dynasty to the Republican era, along two old streets at the eastern foot of Mount Hui, combined with neighbouring Xihui Park into one scenic area that also takes in Huishan Temple, Jichang Garden and the hilltop Longguang Pagoda.
Yuantouzhu 鼋头渚 5A scenic area
A rocky headland on the north shore of Lake Tai shaped like a turtle's head, developed from 1916 by Wuxi businessmen with lakeside villas and gardens and now a large park of wooded hills, pavilions, rock inscriptions and wide lake views.
China Yixing Ceramics Museum 中国宜兴陶瓷博物馆 4A scenic area
One of China's earliest specialist ceramics museums, at the foot of Xianhe Hill in Dingshu, Yixing's pottery town, and since 2013 also designated the China Zisha Museum.
Chinese Decorative Stone Park 中华赏石园 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum and garden of ornamental stones at the northern entrance of the China Wu Culture Expo Park in Hongshan, founded as the first stone garden of the View Stone Association of China.
Chong'an Temple Quarter 崇安寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The historic core of central Wuxi, named after a temple said to have been founded on the calligrapher Wang Xizhi's donated house in the 4th century and lost in the early 20th century; today it is a pedestrian shopping and food quarter around Erquan Square, known for old Wuxi restaurants and xiaolongbao.
Dangkou Ancient Town 荡口古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A canal town in Ehu, east of Wuxi near the Suzhou border, that grew up from the early Ming dynasty as the home of the Hua clan, with Ming and Qing houses along the Beicang River; restoration began in 2009 and it is now run as a scenic area.
Donglin Academy 东林书院 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A Confucian academy in central Wuxi founded in 1111, where the Song scholar Yang Shi taught, and revived in the early 1600s by Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, whose circle of scholar-officials criticised court politics and became known as the Donglin faction.
Former Residence of Xue Fucheng 薛福成故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The mansion that the late-Qing diplomat and reformer Xue Fucheng, envoy to Britain, France, Italy and Belgium, had built in Wuxi's old city between 1890 and 1894, known by its imperial name plaque as the Qinshidi, the 'Imperial Envoy's Residence'.
Helü City Ruins and Museum 阖闾城遗址博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A museum opened in 2014 beside the remains of Helü City, a walled settlement on the Wuxi–Changzhou border that archaeologists identified in 2008 as a capital of the Spring and Autumn state of Wu under King Helü in the late 6th century BC, although the location of his capital is still debated.
Hongshan Site Museum (China Wu Culture Museum) 鸿山遗址博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A site museum in Wuxi's Hongshan area built over a cemetery of tombs of Yue-state nobles, whose excavation was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2004.
Hongshan Taibo Scenic Area 鸿山泰伯景区 4A scenic area · on the map
The burial place on Hongshan hill traditionally held to be that of Taibo, the legendary founder of the Wu state, laid out with Wu Culture Square in front and the tomb area behind.
Jiangsu Education Commissioner's Office, Jiangyin 江苏学政衙署 4A scenic area · on the map
The site of the provincial education commissioner's office, unusually based in Jiangyin rather than in a provincial capital: the commissioner for Suzhou and Songjiang moved here in 1614, and from 1725 until the examinations ended in 1906 the Jiangsu commissioner, responsible for eight prefectures and three departments, was based here.
Jiangyin Riverside Fortress Scenic Area 江阴滨江要塞 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Riverside parks on Huangshan hill and Ebizui (Goose Beak) Point just north of central Jiangyin, where the Yangtze narrows to little more than a kilometre and has been fortified since the late Ming.
Li Garden (Liyuan) 蠡园 4A scenic area
A lakeside garden on the north shore of Lihu Lake, created between 1927 and 1936 by the Wang family of Qingqi village and joined in 1952 with the neighbouring Yuzhuang garden of 1930 to form a public park.
Longbeishan Forest Park 龙背山森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill park of about 5.5 km² on the southern edge of Yixing's city centre.
Nanchan Temple, Wuxi 南禅寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A Buddhist temple near the old Grand Canal just south of central Wuxi, first founded in the Southern Dynasties and restored in 1995, whose seven-storey octagonal Miaoguang Pagoda was named by the Song emperor Huizong in 1104 and rebuilt in the Ming dynasty.
Qingming Bridge Historic District 清名桥古运河 4A scenic area
A stretch of the old Grand Canal south of Wuxi's former city wall, lined with old waterside houses along Nanchang Street and Nanxiatang and crossed by the humpbacked Qingming Bridge, first built in the Ming dynasty and last rebuilt in 1869.
Shanjuan Cave 善卷洞 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A karst cave in Luoyan Hill near Zhangzhu, the first of Yixing's 'three wonders' among its caves, with upper, middle and lower chambers full of stalactites and a water cave where boats follow an underground river.
Taozu Shengjing Scenic Area 陶祖圣境 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area in the bamboo-covered hills of Huxu, south-west of Yixing, developed around Muli Cave, a karst cave whose route includes a stretch by boat.
Tuanjiu Lake Scenic Area 团氿 4A scenic area · on the map
A small round lake on the western edge of Yixing's city centre, one of the three 'jiu' lakes that give the city its waterside setting.
Wuxi Film City (National Digital Film Industry Park) 无锡影都 4A scenic area · on the map
A film-industry park on Lihu Avenue in southern Wuxi, built on the site of the Xuelang steel-rolling mill that closed in 2009, whose old factory sheds were converted into about 15 sound stages used by film and television crews.
Wuxi Museum 无锡博物院 4A scenic area
The city's main museum, opened in 2008 in a large steel-framed building beside Taihu Square, which merged the old Wuxi Museum with the city's revolutionary and science museums.
Wuxi Plum Garden 梅园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A hillside garden west of Wuxi begun in 1912 by the industrialist Rong Desheng, who planted some 3,000 plum trees around his family villa; it is one of the best-known places in the Jiangnan region to see plum blossom in late winter and early spring.
Wuxi Zoo and Taihu Amusement Park 无锡动物园·太湖欢乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A combined zoo and amusement park on the slopes of Mount Hui in western Wuxi, opened in 2010 when the city zoo moved here from Xihui Park, where it had been since 1956.
Yangshan Peach Blossom Land 阳山桃花源 4A scenic area · on the map
The peach-growing country around Yangshan town in western Wuxi, known across China for its juicy honey peaches, with orchards that blossom in spring and are picked in summer.
Yixing Bamboo Sea 宜兴竹海 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park of bamboo-covered hills in the far south of Yixing, where Jiangsu meets Zhejiang and Anhui, long known as a 'sea of bamboo'.
Yunhu Lake Scenic Area, Yixing 宜兴云湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area around Yunhu Lake, the former Hengshan Reservoir in the hills of Xizhu in south-western Yixing, combining lakeside walks and a wetland park with a tea-culture zone that includes the Yangxian Tea Culture Museum.
Dayao Road Kiln Sites (Wuxi Kiln Ruins Museum) 大窑路窑群遗址 National heritage site
A line of old brick and tile kilns along Dayao Road on the east bank of the old Grand Canal, where kilns fired building bricks from the Ming dynasty onwards and are recorded as having made 'gold bricks' for the imperial palace; dozens of the kilns still stand along the street.
Former Jiangyin Fortress Headquarters 江阴要塞司令部旧址 National heritage site
A Chinese-Western house built in 1917 by the Jiangyin industrialist Wu Tinglu, with a brick screen wall and garden in front of two Chinese-style halls and a two-storey Western-style villa at the back.
Former Maoxin Flour Mill 茂新面粉厂旧址 National heritage site
Wuxi's first flour mill, started in 1902 by the industrialist brothers Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng beside the Grand Canal, the first factory of the Rong family's industrial business.
Former Residence of Qin Bangxian (Bo Gu) 秦邦宪旧居 National heritage site
A late-Qing courtyard house on Chongning Road where Qin Bangxian, better known as Bo Gu, lived with his parents from 1916 to 1921; born in Wuxi in 1907, he was General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1931 until the Zunyi Conference of January 1935.
Former Residence of Xu Xiake 徐霞客故居 National heritage site
The family home of Xu Xiake (1587–1641), the late-Ming traveller and geographer whose diaries of more than 30 years of journeys across China are a classic of Chinese travel writing, in the Jiangyin township now named after him.
Jichang Garden 寄畅园 National heritage site
A Ming-dynasty garden at the foot of Mount Hui, begun in the Zhengde era (1506–1521) by the official Qin Jin on the site of two monks' lodges and given its present name by his descendant Qin Yao after 1591.
Qianshu Dragon Kiln (Yixing Kiln Sites) 前墅龙窑 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty 'dragon kiln' in Dingshu, a long, sloping, wood-fired tunnel kiln running up a hillside, which is still fired today and is the part of the Yixing Kiln Sites that visitors can see; the national listing groups it with five other old kiln sites around Yixing.
Shiyuan Garden, Jiangyin 适园 National heritage site · on the map
A small private garden in Jiangyin's old town, laid out in the mid-19th century by Chen Shijin, a lover of painting and calligraphy, beside the family house, around a pond with rockeries and a waterside pavilion.
Taibo Temple, Meicun 泰伯庙 National heritage site
A temple beside the Bodu River in Meicun on the spot where Taibo, the eldest son of the Zhou king who gave up his claim to the throne and founded the Wu state, is said to have lived; a temple was first raised here in 154 AD.
Xiaolou Lane 小娄巷 National heritage site · on the map
A historic lane quarter in central Wuxi that was for centuries the home of the Tan and Qin families, two of the city's leading scholar-gentry clans, whose members included many successful examination candidates from the Song dynasty onwards.
Xingguo Temple Pagoda 兴国寺塔 National heritage site
An octagonal brick pagoda in Xingguo Park in the south-west of Jiangyin's old town, first built in the Taiping Xingguo era of the Northern Song (976–984) and raised from seven to nine storeys during a Ming repair.
Xu Ancestral Hall, Fuxi 洑溪徐氏宗祠 National heritage site
The clan temple of the Xu family of Fuxi, built in 1490 for the family of the Ming official Xu Pu and also known as the Grand Tutor Xu Family Temple.
Zhaosi Hall 昭嗣堂 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty hall in Shuofang, built as the house of the official Cao Cha, who passed the imperial examinations in 1528, and turned into the Cao family's ancestral temple in 1748.
Zhouwang Temple (Yixing Stele Museum) 周王庙 National heritage site · on the map
A memorial temple in the old centre of Yixing to Zhou Chu, a local general of the third century remembered in the folk tale of how he rid the district of a tiger, a river dragon and finally his own bad ways.

Xuzhou 21 sites

Yunlong Lake 云龙湖 5A scenic area
A lake on the south-western edge of central Xuzhou, enlarged from low-lying ground into a reservoir and now the heart of a 5A scenic area, framed by green hills on three sides with Yunlong Mountain to the east.
Aishan Scenic Area, Pizhou 艾山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill scenic area of about 15 km² in Tiefu, northern Pizhou, that mixes woodland scenery with restored historic sites.
Baolian Temple, Pantao Hill 蟠桃山宝莲寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A Buddhist temple complex on Pantao Hill in the Xuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, east of the city, centred on Baolian Temple, rebuilt from 2009 on the site of an older monastery that had fallen into ruin by the mid-20th century.
Dadong Mountain 大洞山 4A scenic area · on the map
At 361 m the highest hill in the Xuzhou area, rising on the southern edge of Jiawang district centre and managed as a wooded scenic area.
Dashahe Wetland Park, Feng County 大沙河湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wetland park along the Dasha River in Feng County, in the far north-west of Jiangsu, where long riverside sandbanks, reed beds and ponds are laid out with birdwatching platforms and waterside paths.
Dugong Lake 督公湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir east of Jiawang's district centre, built in 1958 and now a lakeside scenic area with waterside paths.
Fengminghai Park, Jiawang 凤鸣海 4A scenic area · on the map
A park on the eastern side of Jiawang, the former coal-mining district north-east of Xuzhou, which the district promotes as one of its scenic areas alongside Pan'an Lake and Dadong Mountain.
Guishan Han Tombs 龟山汉墓 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The joint tomb of Liu Zhu, sixth king of Chu in the Western Han dynasty, and his queen, cut side by side into the west face of Guishan hill on Xuzhou's north-western edge and identified in 1985 from the king's silver seal.
Huaihai Campaign Martyrs Memorial Park 淮海战役烈士纪念塔 4A scenic area
A memorial park on the southern side of central Xuzhou honouring soldiers of the People's Liberation Army killed in the Huaihai Campaign of November 1948 to January 1949, one of the decisive campaigns of the Chinese Civil War.
Hubu Hill Historic Buildings 户部山古建筑群 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A low hill in the heart of Xuzhou named after the Ming Ministry of Revenue branch office that moved up here when the Yellow River flooded the city in 1624, after which wealthy families crowded its slopes with courtyard houses.
Liu Bang's Hometown Cultural Area, Feng County 刘邦故里文化景区 4A scenic area · on the map
A Han-dynasty theme park in Feng County, which the ancient histories give as the birthplace of Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty.
Maling Mountain 马陵山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A range of low red-sandstone hills south of Xinyi city, with Danxia-type cliffs and rock formations, caves, small lakes and pine woods, which local tradition identifies as the site of the Warring States Battle of Maling and where the Qianlong Emperor stayed on his southern tours.
Pan'an Lake National Wetland Park 潘安湖湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national wetland park in Jiawang district made from what was the largest and most damaged area of subsided ground over old coal mines around Xuzhou, flooded and landscaped since the late 2000s into lakes, reed beds and stands of pond cypress.
Pengzu Park 彭祖园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large wooded city park on the southern side of central Xuzhou dedicated to Peng Zu, the legendary sage said to have lived some 800 years, whom tradition makes lord of the ancient state of Dapeng at Xuzhou.
Shuiyue Temple, Suining 水月禅寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A large Buddhist temple in Suining County, built in recent years on the site of the county's former Dizang Temple inside the Baitang River wetland park.
Xuzhou Amusement Park 徐州乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme-park complex west of Yunlong Lake made up of a water park and two themed ride parks, with a resort hotel and a shopping street attached.
Xuzhou Han Culture Scenic Area (Shizishan) 徐州汉文化景区 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A park in Xuzhou's eastern suburbs built around Shizishan, where a Western Han king of Chu was buried in the 2nd century BC in a tomb cut 117 m into the hillside; visitors walk through its passages and a dozen rock-hewn chambers, found in 1991 and excavated in 1994–95.
Xuzhou Han Stone Relief Art Museum 徐州汉画像石艺术馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum on the eastern shore of Yunlong Lake devoted to the carved stone panels that lined Eastern Han tombs, shrines and gate towers around Xuzhou.
Xuzhou Museum 徐州博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Xuzhou's main history museum, a national first-class museum at the northern foot of Yunlong Mountain, best known for finds from the rock-cut tombs of the Western Han kings of Chu, among them a jade burial suit sewn with gold thread.
Yaowan Ancient Town 窑湾古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A canal town on the Grand Canal where it meets Luoma Lake, in the south-west of Xinyi, with some 1,300 years of history; it grew into a busy trading port in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Ruins of the Ancient City of Xiapi 下邳故城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The buried remains of Xiapi at Gupi in northern Suining County, a walled city for well over a thousand years and the place where the warlord Lü Bu was captured and put to death at the end of the 2nd century, an episode retold in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Yancheng 27 sites

Dafeng Milu (Père David's Deer) Park 中华麋鹿园 5A scenic area · on the map
The visitor area of the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve on the Yellow Sea coast, where Père David's deer (milu), which had died out in China, were brought back in 1986 with 39 animals from British zoos; the reserve now holds the world's largest wild population of the species.
Anfeng Ancient Town 安丰古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Anfeng grew rich as the leading salt-producing town of the old Huainan salt fields, drawing Huizhou salt merchants who built along a long street beside the Chuanchang canal, and it was named a China Historical and Cultural Town in 2007.
Caofangzi (Grass House) Park 草房子乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural theme park of about 350 mu in Zhouhuo village, the home village of children's author Cao Wenxuan, winner of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award, planned around the site of the original straw-roofed houses behind his novel Caofangzi (The Grass House).
China Water Margin Park & Shi Nai'an Memorial Hall 中华水浒园 4A scenic area · on the map
A themed park in Baiju town built around the Shi Nai'an Memorial Hall, which presents Baiju as the home town of Shi Nai'an, the writer traditionally credited with the classic novel Water Margin (the claim is shared with neighbouring Xinghua).
Dafeng Dream Maze 梦幻迷宫 4A scenic area · on the map
A hedge-maze park in the countryside of Caoyan town that Guinness World Records lists as the largest permanent hedge maze, measured at 35,596.74 m² in June 2018, with about 9.5 km of paths.
Dafeng Port Ocean World 大丰港海洋世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An ocean-themed family attraction in the marine-industry park near Dafeng Port, with aquarium halls, marine science exhibits, a tropical plant house and a children's play area.
Dayangwan Eco-Tourism Area 大洋湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A large park on the northern edge of Yancheng where the old and new channels of the Yangwan river loop around islands and inlets, laid out with lawns, flower meadows and waterside paths.
Dazong Lake 大纵湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A shallow lake of about 28 km² on the border with Xinghua, long admired for its autumn views, whose northern, Yancheng shore is developed as a lakeside resort with a national wetland park.
Dutch Flower Sea 荷兰花海 4A scenic area · on the map
A large flower park in Xinfeng town, named in memory of the Dutch water engineer who planned the area's irrigation in 1919, where tulips are grown over thousands of mu and a tulip festival has been held every spring since 2013.
Huai Opera Town, Jianhu 淮剧小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A waterside village quarter of about 350 mu on the edge of the Jiulongkou wetland, renovated and extended in old style as a showcase for Huai opera and Jianhu acrobatics, both national intangible heritage.
Jinsha Lake, Funing 金沙湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake and wetland resort on the southern edge of Funing town, developed from 2010 around about 10,000 mu of water with reed-fringed islands, and listed as a national water conservancy scenic area.
Jiulongkou Scenic Area 九龙口 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake and marsh area in the Lixiahe lowlands where nine natural rivers meet around a small island, giving the name 'Nine Dragons' Mouth'.
Longgang Peach Blossom Land 龙冈桃花源 4A scenic area · on the map
An orchard park in Longgang, an old market town west of Yancheng named after the 15-li sand ridge to its north said to resemble a lying dragon.
Majiadang Wetland 马家荡 4A scenic area · on the map
Majiadang is a broad expanse of reed marsh, fish ponds and waterways in south-western Funing, counted as the first of the 64 marshes of the Lixiahe lowlands, with villages built along the water.
Meihuawan Park 梅花湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscaped park on the north-western edge of Dafeng themed on plum blossom, laid out around lakes off a branch of the Doulonggang River with groves of plum, cherry and crabapple among camphor, osmanthus and magnolia trees.
New Fourth Army Memorial Hall 新四军纪念馆 4A scenic area
A museum opened in 1986 on Jianjun East Road about the New Fourth Army, the Communist-led army that fought the Japanese in central China and had its headquarters re-established in Yancheng in 1941 after the Wannan Incident.
Shanghai Sent-Down Youth Memorial Hall, Dafeng 上海知青纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum on Haifeng Farm, one of the state farms run by Shanghai inside Dafeng, recording the tens of thousands of young Shanghai people sent to reclaim the Yellow Sea mudflats in the 1960s and 1970s.
Sheyang Andersen Fairy Tale Park 安徒生童话乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern theme park on the edge of Sheyang county town built around Hans Christian Andersen's stories, with four themed zones based on The Little Match Girl, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling, rides, themed halls, a castle and a water park.
Tiaozini Wetland 条子泥 4A scenic area · on the map
A vast tidal mudflat on the Yellow Sea coast, part of the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China World Heritage Site since 2019 and a key stopover on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway.
Xixi Tianxianyuan Scenic Area & Haichunxuan Pagoda 西溪天仙缘 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Xixi, on the western edge of Dongtai, was a salt-making centre from the Han dynasty and is linked with the folk legend of Dong Yong and the Seventh Fairy, a national intangible heritage item.
Xixin Temple 息心寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A large Buddhist temple near the Sheyang River, founded in the late Ming dynasty as a small shrine (Zhenlong Temple, later Xixin An), later destroyed and rebuilt from 1993.
Yancheng Museum 盐城市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
Yancheng's city museum, founded in 1961, moved in 2021 into a new group of buildings in traditional style on Jianjun West Road in the old centre.
Yancheng Red-crowned Crane Wetland (Yancheng National Nature Reserve) 盐城丹顶鹤湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
The visitor area of the Jiangsu Yancheng Wetland Rare Birds National Nature Reserve, set up in 1983, a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1992 and part of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf migratory bird World Heritage Site since 2019.
Yancheng Sea Salt Historic and Cultural Zone (China Sea Salt Museum) 海盐历史文化风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Yancheng, literally 'salt city', tells the story of its salt trade in this zone beside the Chuanchang River, an old salt-transport canal.
Yellow Sea Coastal National Forest Park 黄海森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large planted forest on reclaimed coastal land near the Yellow Sea, begun in 1965 as the Dongtai state forest farm and made a national forest park in 2015.
Former Headquarters of the Reformed New Fourth Army (Taishan Temple) 新四军重建军部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
After the Wannan Incident of January 1941, when Chiang Kai-shek ordered the New Fourth Army disbanded, the Communist leadership re-established the army's headquarters here in Taishan (Dongyue) Temple, a Ming-dynasty temple rebuilt in 1582.
Yanfu Region Anti-Japanese Martyrs' Memorial Tower 盐阜区抗日阵亡将士纪念塔 National heritage site · on the map
A memorial tower about 20 m high built in 1943 at Lupu to honour New Fourth Army soldiers and cadres killed in the Yanfu (Yancheng–Funing) anti-Japanese base area; local people supplied the bricks and labour, and a cast-iron statue of a soldier stands on top.

Yangzhou 26 sites

Daming Temple 大明寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A Buddhist temple on the Shugang hills, founded in the Daming era (457–464) that gave it its name, where the monk Jianzhen taught before his voyages to Japan, which he finally reached in 753 after five failed attempts.
Dongguan Street 东关街 4A scenic area
A 1,122 m flagstone street that ran from the Great East Gate of Yangzhou's old city to Dongguan by the canal, once one of the city's busiest trading streets.
Ge Garden 个园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A salt merchant's garden rebuilt in 1818 by Huang Zhiyun on the site of an older Ming garden and named after its bamboo, whose clustered leaves resemble the character 个 (ge).
Han Guangling Tomb Museum (Hanling Yuan) 汉陵苑 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum on the Shugang hills built around the tomb of Liu Xu, the first Prince of Guangling in the Western Han, and the tomb of his consort, both excavated at Tianshan in Gaoyou from 1979 and later moved here.
He Garden 何园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A large late-Qing residence and garden, also called Jixiao Shanzhuang, built from 1862 to 1875 by He Zhidao, a former circuit intendant in Hubei, who added the older Pianshi Shanfang garden in 1883.
Memorial of the Last Battle of the War of Resistance, Gaoyou 抗日战争最后一役文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
In December 1945, more than four months after Japan announced its surrender, the New Fourth Army's Central China Field Army under Su Yu attacked Gaoyou, whose Japanese and collaborationist garrison had refused to surrender to it; the town fell on 26 December and the Japanese garrison surrendered in the auditorium of its headquarters.
Nashan Geopark 捺山地质公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Nashan, a 146 m hill in the countryside of Yizheng, is an extinct shield volcano whose interior was exposed by quarrying from the 1980s.
Phoenix Island Eco-Tourism Area 凤凰岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A wetland park on the islands among the rivers north-east of Yangzhou, laid out around water, islands, woodland and birds.
Sanwan Park & China Grand Canal Museum 运河三湾 4A scenic area · National heritage site
In 1597 Yangzhou's prefect Guo Guangfu replaced a straight stretch of the canal, nearly 200 m long, with a 1.8 km course of three bends to raise the water level and slow the current; after 2014 factories and wharves were cleared from its banks, which reopened in 2017 as a wetland park.
Song Jiacheng Archaeological Park (Yangzhou City Ruins) 宋夹城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The Jiacheng was a walled enclosure the Southern Song built between Yangzhou's main city and the fortress on the Shugang hills; its earthen walls, about 2.6 km round and still 1–3 m above the surrounding ground, are ringed by water and now form a park with paths and the excavated north gate.
Wenyou Terrace, Gaoyou 文游台 4A scenic area
A group of halls in the north of Gaoyou that began in 976 as a temple to the god of Mount Tai.
Yangzhou Museum & China Block Printing Museum 扬州博物馆 4A scenic area
Yangzhou's main museum shares a modern building beside Mingyue Lake with the China Block Printing Museum, so the pair is known locally as the 'Double Museum'; both opened here in 2005.
Yucheng Postal Stop 盂城驿 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The largest relay station on the Ming–Qing Grand Canal, founded in 1375 beside the canal at Gaoyou to keep post horses and boats and lodge officials; it burned in 1557, was rebuilt in 1568 and was repaired several times under the Qing.
Zhuyuwan Scenic Area (Yangzhou Zoo) 茱萸湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A peninsula park in Wantou, north-east of Yangzhou, that combines gardens, woodland and water with the city zoo.
Crane Mosque 仙鹤寺 National heritage site
One of the oldest mosques in China, founded in 1275 by Puhaddin, an Arab missionary said to descend from the Prophet Muhammad, and rebuilt in 1390 and again in 1523.
Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou Memorial Hall 扬州八怪纪念馆 National heritage site
A museum to the Qing painters known as the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, opened in 1993 in the former Xifang Temple, where one of them, Jin Nong, lodged from the age of 70 until his death in 1763.
Gaoyou Pawnshop (Tongxing Pawnshop) 高邮当铺 National heritage site
A pawnshop outside Gaoyou's old north gate, opened in the early to mid Qing and said by local tradition to have belonged to the minister Heshen; it traded until 1927, reopened briefly and closed for good during the war against Japan.
Jia Salt Merchant Residence & Erfen Mingyue Lou 贾氏盐商住宅 National heritage site · on the map
The house and garden of the late-Qing Zhenjiang salt merchant Jia Yuan, a residence of linked halls and courtyards with the Erfen Mingyue Lou garden, named after the Tang poet Xu Ning's line giving Yangzhou two of the world's three shares of moonlight.
Longqiuzhuang Neolithic Site 龙虬庄遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic settlement dated to about 7,000–5,000 years ago, found in the 1970s and excavated in 1993–95, when 402 burials and a house site were uncovered; it gave its name to the Longqiuzhuang culture of the Jianghuai region east of the Grand Canal.
Lu Salt Merchant Residence (China Huaiyang Cuisine Museum) 卢氏盐商住宅 National heritage site
Built in 1897 for the Jiangxi salt merchant Lu Shaoxu, this is the largest surviving salt merchant's house in Yangzhou, with more than 130 rooms on over a hectare: a nine-courtyard residence in front and the Yi Garden, with a stone boat, pavilion and pond, behind.
Tomb of Emperor Yang of Sui 隋炀帝墓 National heritage site · on the map
The tombs of Emperor Yang of Sui, who was killed in a mutiny at his Jiangdu palace in Yangzhou in 618, and of his empress Xiao, found on a building site at Caozhuang in 2012 and identified the next year by an epitaph naming 'the late Emperor Yang of Sui'.
Tomb of Puhaddin 普哈丁墓 National heritage site
The walled cemetery of Puhaddin, an Arab missionary said to be a 16th-generation descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, who came to Yangzhou in the late Southern Song and died in 1275.
Wang Xiaoyuan Residence 汪氏小苑 National heritage site
A salt merchant's house in the Dongquanmen lanes, built in the late Qing by the Huizhou merchant Wang Zhuming and enlarged by his eldest son in the early Republic, and one of the most complete merchant residences of that period in Yangzhou.
Wu Daotai Mansion (Wu Family Residence) 吴氏宅第 National heritage site
A large mansion begun in 1888 for Wu Yinsun, a Qing official who had served as circuit intendant at Ningbo, and laid out after the intendant's office there.
Xiaopangu Garden 小盘谷 National heritage site · on the map
A compact garden and house in the lanes of south-east Yangzhou, laid out in the late 18th century and rebuilt after 1904 by Zhou Fu, Viceroy of Liangjiang, with the residence on the west and the garden on the east over about 5,700 m².
Yipu Garden 逸圃 National heritage site
A compact house and garden on Dongguan Street, built in 1910 for the banker Li Hesheng, with a five-courtyard residence on the west and the garden on the east, separated by a fire lane.

Zhenjiang 9 sites

Jinshan, Jiaoshan and Beigushan 金山·焦山·北固山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Zhenjiang's three classic Yangtze hills are managed as one scenic area but are separate parks several kilometres apart.
Mount Mao (Maoshan) 茅山 5A scenic area
A low range on the Jurong–Jintan border, rising to 372.5 metres at Damao Peak, revered as the birthplace of the Shangqing school of Taoism and called by Taoists the 'eighth grotto-heaven and first blessed land'.
Mi Fu Calligraphy Park 米芾书法公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A park in the Changshan hills of Dantu District devoted to Mi Fu, the Song-dynasty calligrapher and painter who spent much of his life in Zhenjiang.
Mount Baohua and Longchang Temple 宝华山隆昌寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Mount Baohua, a forested hill just east of Nanjing, is a national forest park whose main sight is Longchang Temple, founded in 502 and regarded as the ancestral seat of the Vinaya (monastic discipline) school of Chinese Buddhism.
Nanshan Scenic Area, Zhenjiang 南山 4A scenic area · on the map
A belt of low wooded hills on the southern edge of Zhenjiang, rising to 185 metres at Jiuhua Shan and protected as a scenic area of about 15.6 square kilometres, known as the city's 'mountain forest'.
Xijindu Ancient Street 西津渡 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A stepped lane climbing Yuntai Hill in western Zhenjiang to the old Xijin ferry crossing on the Yangtze, where poets such as Li Bai, Wang Anshi and Su Shi waited for boats.
Zhenjiang Museum (Former British Consulate) 镇江博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Zhenjiang's city museum has occupied the former British consulate since 1958: five colonial-style verandah buildings of 1889–90 on the slope above Xijindu, rebuilt after the first consulate was burned in riots in 1888.
Zhenjiang Vinegar Culture Museum 中国醋文化博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum opened in 2010 by the Hengshun Group, maker of the well-known Zhenjiang vinegar, beside its works in Dantu District.
Southern Dynasties Tomb Sculptures, Danyang 丹阳南朝陵墓石刻 National heritage site
Danyang holds the mausoleums of emperors of the Southern Qi and Liang dynasties, both of the Xiao clan, and about a dozen groups of 5th- and 6th-century stone guardians still stand in the fields east and north-east of the town.

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