Panjin
Panjin is a coastal prefecture-level city in central Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, situated on the northern shore of the Liaodong Bay.

Panjin is a coastal prefecture-level city in central Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, situated on the northern shore of the Liaodong Bay. It borders Anshan to the east, Yingkou to the southeast, and Jinzhou to the west and north. It is the smallest city in both Liaoning and the entire Northeast China with an administrative area of 3,825 square kilometres (1,477 sq mi), and Liaoning's least populous city with a population of 1,389,691 people as of the 2020 census, all in the built-up area made of the 2 urban districts and Dawa and Panshan counties now largely being conurbated.
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Worth seeing in and around Panjin
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Liaoning Panjin Stadium
Panjin Red Beach Sports Centre Jinxiu Stadium or simply Panjin Jinxiu Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Panjin, China. It is currently used mostly for association football matches.
1 km · building in Liaoning Panjin Stadium, China · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Red Beach Scenic Area (红海滩风景区 Hónghǎi Tānfēng Jǐngqū). This is a National Nature Reserve area covering 20 square kilometres. Rare birds can be found here. The site gets its name from the unusual colour of the beach seaweed which is bright red. A local delicasy is crabs. Most tours of the Red Beach will include a change to sample one of these crustations yourself.
From Wikivoyage: Panjin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Panjin's rice and river crab are famous. At bus and train stations one can see people taking bags of Panjin rice back home.
From Wikivoyage: Panjin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Panjin
- Airports
- Shenyang Taoxian (SHE), 132 km · Dalian Zhoushuizi (DLC), 243 km
- Shenyang → Panjin136 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · ¥60–80
- Dalian (Ganjingzi) → Panjin249 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · ¥110–150
- Beijing → Panjin498 km · quickest by road, 7h 54m · ¥220–290
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Panjin
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Panjin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Panjin – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Panjin
Panjin is 8 km from Panshan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Shuangtaizi Districtdistrict of Liaoning Province, China7.9 km
- Xinglongtai Districtdistrict of Liaoning Province, China600 m