Anshan 鞍山Ānshān

About Anshan

Anshan grew up around one of China's biggest steelworks, whose story the Ansteel Museum tells in a 1950s workshop of the plant. South-east of the city, Qianshan National Park packs granite peaks, old pines and Buddhist and Daoist temples into about 44 sq km, and the Tanggangzi hot springs have drawn bathers for more than a century. The Jade Buddha Palace is built around a statue carved from a single block of Xiuyan jade weighing some 260 tonnes.

What to eat in Anshan

• Niuzhuang pies (牛庄馅饼)
• Qianbao mutton soup (前堡羊汤)

Listed sites in Anshan

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

• Qianshan National Park 千山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
  A mountain scenic area of about 44 sq km, among the first national scenic areas named in 1982, with granite peaks, old pines and valleys where Buddhist and Daoist temples stand side by side.
• Ansteel Museum and Early Steelworks Buildings 鞍钢博物馆（鞍山钢铁厂早期建筑） 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  The Ansteel Group Museum fills the former No. 2 sintering shop of the Anshan steelworks, a 1950s building designed with Soviet help and one of eight early buildings listed together as a national heritage unit that runs from the Japanese-run works of the 1920s and 1930s to the Soviet-assisted rebuilding of the 1950s.
• Jade Buddha Palace 玉佛苑 4A scenic area
  A Buddhist temple complex on the west slope of Jade Buddha Hill in Anshan, opened in 1996 and built around a hall about 33 m high that houses a statue carved from a single block of Xiuyan jade weighing 260.76 tonnes, with Shakyamuni on the front and Guanyin crossing the sea on the back.
• Jianing Happy Valley 佳宁欢乐谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A leisure-farm resort of 340 mu (about 23 ha) in Yujiagou village near Tanggangzi, combining fishing, fruit picking, a zoo, a children's play area, a water park, sand and grass sliding, horse riding and live-action team shooting games.
• Longquan Lake Resort, Xiuyan 龙泉湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A lake-and-hills leisure resort in Qianying, Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, begun in 2000 and covering nearly 10,000 mu, about 6.5 sq km.
• Qianshan Old Courtyard Resort 千山老院子 4A scenic area · on the map
  A leisure resort in the village of Hanjiayu, in the Qianshan hills, laid out around courtyard-style buildings and gardens in a traditional manner.
• Qingliangshan Scenic Area, Xiuyan 清凉山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain scenic area of about 30 sq km in the north-east of Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, with steep peaks, deep valleys, primary forest, streams, an underground lake and hot springs, according to the provincial tourism page.
• Shanshui Manor Hot Spring Resort 山水庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring leisure resort at Gushouyu, in the Yuanbao hills at the foot of Qianshan.
• Shitouji Qianshan Grand View Garden 石头记千山大观园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A themed garden based on Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone, Shitouji in Chinese), built at the foot of Qianshan in Anshan's high-tech zone and opened in 2023.
• Tanggangzi Hot Spring Resort 汤岗子温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hot-spring spa district about 12 km south of Anshan, used for bathing since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and developed as a spa by the South Manchuria Railway Company from 1920, and in that era counted as one of the 'three great hot springs of Manchuria'.
• Tianyuan Agricultural Park, Haicheng 天源农业 4A scenic area · on the map
  A commercial agri-tourism resort of 300 mu (20 ha) at Beigeng village in Gengzhuang town, built around a hot-spring water park with about 12,000 sq m indoors and 4,600 sq m outdoors.
• Xianghe Holiday Manor 祥和度假庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A family leisure resort of about 22 ha in Qianshan District, south-west of Anshan, built around an indoor children's play park modelled on a candy town and a flower valley with more than a hundred species of flowers.
• Yutangquan Hot Spring Water World 御汤泉 4A scenic area · on the map
  An indoor water park and hot-spring resort in the Tanggangzi new town, under an all-glass roof, with more than a hundred Southeast Asian plant species growing inside.
• Jinta Pagoda, Haicheng 海城金塔 National heritage site · on the map
  A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda, 31.5 m high, on a hillside above Yangjiaoyu village, octagonal with 13 close-set storeys of eaves and named Jinta (Golden Pagoda) for its pale yellow colour.
• Wolongshan Mountain Fortress 卧龙山山城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  A hill fortress of the late Goguryeo period, in the Sui and Tang era, which the provincial heritage page calls the largest and reasonably well preserved of several such forts in Xiuyan county; it was formerly known as Niangniang Cheng.
• Ximucheng Dolmen 析木城石棚 National heritage site · on the map
  A Bronze Age dolmen about 3,000 years old: six granite slabs form a chamber 2.8 m high under a capstone of about 6 m by 5 m, standing on a high terrace at the foot of a hill.
• Yinta Pagoda, Haicheng 海城银塔 National heritage site · on the map
  A white brick pagoda of nine close-set storeys of eaves on a hexagonal plan, about 15.6 m high, begun in the Liao or Jin period and rebuilt in the Ming, on a hillside north of West Tazigou village.

On the map

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