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.
West Lake of Zhejiang, China, located in the west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots in China and a World Heritage Site. Famous for its "three cloudy mountains and one side of the city", the lake is divided by natural and humanistic landscapes such as Lone Mountain, White Causeway and Su Causeway, forming the basic pattern of "one mountain, two towers, three islands, three causeways and five lakes". The ten scenic spots (such as the Spring Dawn of the Su Causeway and the Broken Bridge) carry a thousand years of poems, songs and folk legends, and Su Shi's famous line, "I want to compare the West Lake with the West Side", has made it a symbol of the aesthetics of Jiangnan. Nowadays, the West Lake is not only Hangzhou's ecological business card, but also a model of harmonious coexistence between traditional Chinese culture and nature, attracting tourists from all over the world to savor its unique flavor of "light makeup and thick smear".