Guyuan
Guyuan, formerly known as Xihaigu or Dayuan (大原), is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
Guyuan, formerly known as Xihaigu or Dayuan (大原), is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It occupies the southernmost section of the region, bordering Gansu province to the east, south, and due west. This is also the site of Mount Sumeru Grottoes (须弥山), which is among the ten most famous grottoes in China. As of the end of 2018, the total resident population in Guyuan was 1,124,200. At the end of 2024, the city's resident population was 1,140,800, a decrease of 6,900 compared with the end of the previous year. Among them, the resident population in urban areas was 535,600, accounting for 46.95% of the resident population, an increase of 1.29 percentage points over the end of the previous year.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Xumi Mountain Grottoes. During the Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, more than 130 grottoes were tunneled into the eastern side of Sumeru Shan. Filled with Buddhist sculptures and almost 1400 years old.
- 01Guyuan Museum
From Wikivoyage: Guyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Guyuan
- Airports
- Lanzhou Zhongchuan (LHW), 243 km · Yinchuan Hedong (INC), 257 km · Xi'an Xianyang (XIY), 287 km
- Stations
- Guyuan Liupanshan Airport, 8.1 km
- Lanzhou (Yongdeng) → Guyuan282 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · ¥155–205
- Yinchuan → Guyuan274 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · ¥125–165
- Xi'an → Guyuan309 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · ¥145–195
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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 Guyuan
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 Guyuan. 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 Guyuan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Guyuan
- Yuanzhou Districtdistrict in Guyuan, Ningxia, China2.5 km