Puning
Puning, officially Puning City, is a county-level city located in eastern Guangdong, China, under the administration of Jieyang.

Puning, officially Puning City, is a county-level city located in eastern Guangdong, China, under the administration of Jieyang. Nevertheless, its administrative power in economic matters is comparable to that of prefecture-level cities. Puning is geographically situated on the west rim of Chaoshan Plain, leaning against the stretching branch of the Lianhua Mountains at its southwest border, and 90 percent of its territory sits on the south of the Tropic of Cancer. The city has a population of 2.5089 million under its household registration system hukou, marking the largest in all county-level cities in China. Puning's downtown residents amount to 581,900, behind Yiwu, while the entire city's resident population of 1.9986 million is second to cities Kunshan and Jinjiang. It is concurrently the ancestral hometown of 1.95 million overseas Chinese people and 1.4 million 'returned overseas Chinese people' and family members of the overseas Chinese people.
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Getting to Puning
- Airports
- Jieyang Chaoshan (SWA), 45 km · Xiamen Gaoqi (XMN), 243 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 253 km
- Stations
- Puning railway station, 5.2 km
- Jieyang (Rongcheng) → Puning31 km · quickest by road, 52 min · ¥14–19
- Xiamen → Puning234 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · ¥120–160
- Shenzhen → Puning231 km · quickest by road, 3h 56m · ¥105–140
- 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 Puning
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 Puning. 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 Puning – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Puning
Puning is 34 km from Jieyang, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Daba, Puningtown in Guangdong, People's Republic of China8.1 km