Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Baoding, a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, is located in the northern part of the North China Plain, constituting a golden triangle with Beijing and Tianjin, and is known as the "Gateway to the Gorge" and the "Southern Gate of the Capital". The city has a long history, since the Neolithic era, there will be the first people to flourish, the Warring States period for the junction of Yan and Zhao, the Yuan Dynasty, set up Baoding Road, to "defend the metropolis, stabilize the world," the Ming and Qing Dynasty for the capital of the Zhili province, is one of the political and cultural centers of northern China's modern times. There are many scenic spots and monuments in Baoding, including the Governor's Office of Zhili, one of China's top ten museums, the national 5A scenic spot Baiyangdian, and the thousand-year-old temple Mancheng Han Tomb, etc. Baoding has a rich cultural heritage. Cultural heritage, Baoding Military Academy is known as "China's modern military cradle", training a large number of military personnel; food culture is unique, Baoding dishes, locust Mao pickles, white Yunzhang buns and other famous. Nowadays, Baoding, as a regional center city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei world-class urban agglomeration, is relying on the advantages of its location to vigorously develop new energy, automobile manufacturing and other industries, and is a livable city with both historical heritage and modern vitality.
Yunnan Stone Forest, located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County of Kunming City, Yunnan Province, is one of the first batch of China's World Natural Heritage Sites and a national 5A-level tourist attraction, famous for its karst landscape with "majestic, strange, dangerous, beautiful and secluded", which is known as "the first wonder in the world". There are typical karst landscapes such as stone buds, dissolving grooves, peak forests and caves, formed 270 million years ago, with strange stones in a thousand shapes and colors, among which the "Ashima" stone peak has become a cultural symbol of Yunnan. Stone Forest is not only a natural museum for geological research, but also a settlement of the Yi Sani people, where the rich ethnic customs and natural scenery are intertwined, and every year during the Torch Festival, songs and dances attract tourists from all over the world to come and explore the mysteries of this "stone forest".