Xuzhou
Xuzhou, also known as Pengcheng (彭城), is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China.
Xuzhou, also known as Pengcheng (彭城), is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China. Located at the junction of four provinces—Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui—it occupies a natural geographic gap between the Shandong Hills and the North China Plain. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of approximately 9.08 million.
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Worth seeing in and around Xuzhou
4 places 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.
- 01Sacred Heart Cathedral
The Sacred Heart Cathedral also known as the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Xuzhou, China. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuzhou.
1.1 km · church building in Sacred Heart Cathedral (Xuzhou), China · Wikipedia - 02Yunlong Lake
Yunlong Lake is a lake in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. Yunlong Mountain lies to its east.
4.1 km · lake in Jiangsu, China · Wikipedia - 03Xuzhou University of Technology
The Xuzhou University of Technology, formerly Xuzhou Institute of Technology, is a municipal public college located in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. The college is affiliated with and sponsored by the City of Xuzhou.
6.3 km · university in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China · Wikipedia - 04Yunlong Park
Yunlong Park is an urban park built in 1958 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. It was originally a cemetery built for the Christian and the Buddhist before Chinese Civil War.
4.1 km · lake of China · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Walk the city and explore the old downtown neighborhoods. Narrow alleys and old 小区 (xiao qu) give access to hundred year old wet markets neighboring temporary encampments of migrant workers and traveling farmers, one room restaurants without menus (don't worry, they'll tell you what they've got, or you can glance at other tables), dog meat butchers, public toilets, backstreet whorehouses with eerie blue lights,…
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Things to do
Xuzhou Concert Hall (徐州音乐厅), No.
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Where to eat
Diguo ji (地锅鸡) is a savoury combination of chicken, chillies and bread. It is exactly chicken cooked à la diguo which was a popular cookery among the fisherfolk of the Weishan Lake. They used a cauldron to boil the fish, and put the squashed doughs around the cauldron inside, thus they could have fish with bread. Now you can order its chicken version in most local restaurants.
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Getting to Xuzhou
- Airports
- Lianyungang Huaguoshan (LYG), 184 km · Huai'an Lianshui (HIA), 186 km · Hefei Xinqiao (HFE), 254 km
- Stations
- Xuzhou railway station, 1.3 km
- Lianyungang → Xuzhou183 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · ¥80–105
- Huai'an → Xuzhou174 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · ¥70–95
- Hefei → Xuzhou260 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · ¥120–160
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Xuzhou
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 Xuzhou. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThere are also minibuses that travel outside of the city to neighboring rural towns.
From Wikivoyage: Xuzhou, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Xuzhou
Xuzhou is 6 km from Yunlong, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Yunlong Districtdistrict of Jiangsu Province, China3.7 km
- Gulou Districtdistrict in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China2.8 km
- Quanshan Districtdistrict of Jiangsu Province, China2.1 km
- Tongshan Districtdistrict of Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China9.8 km
- Jiuli Districtdistrict of Jiangsu Province, China5.6 km