Skip to content
Mixroutes
Heze
Prefecture-level city in Shandong, People's Republic of China

Heze

Heze is the westernmost prefecture-level city in Shandong province, China.

Plan a trip to Heze→From Zhengzhou

The Peony Capital of China, formerly known as Caozhou, the city borders Jining to the east, and the provinces of Henan and Anhui to the west and south respectively. The total area is 12238.62 square kilometers and the population is 10.58 million. It governs Mudan District and Dingtao District, 2 districts and 7 counties including Caoxian, Chengwu, Shanxian, Juye, Yuncheng, Juancheng and Dongming.

Get in

Getting to Heze

Heze has a long distance bus station and a train station.

  1. 01
    Heze Mudan Airport
  2. 02
    Heze Railway Station
  3. 03
    Hezedong Railway Station
See

Worth seeing

There are some nice paths and bridges along the river. Heze is famous for its peony blossoms.

  1. 01
    Heze Museum
  2. 02
    Caozhou Peony Garden

    1000, Renmin Road, Mudan Subdistrict, Mudan District (牡丹区牡丹街道人民路1000号) (take bus No.

  3. 03
    Caozhou hundred Gardens
  4. 04
    Sunbin Tourism City

    It covers an area of 999 acres and has a total construction area of 247,000 square meters.

  5. 05
    Zhaowang River Park
  6. 06
    Huandi Park

    The Huandi Park plan is divided into "one ring, four sections, ten sceneries and five lakes", one of which is the city park ring (green ecological ring, healthy life ring, urban cultural ring).

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Peony Garden Ski Resort
Eat

Where to eat

Dumplings are one of the specialties of northeast China, and are common in Heze. Heze also has a surprising number of Sichuan restaurants.

  1. 01
    Rock Fried Chicken

    3-7 Shangri-La Commercial Street, Limin Street, Peony District (牡丹区利民街香格里拉商业街3-7号).

  2. 02
    Feast Flower City
  3. 03
    Sister Zhu's Mutton Soup
  4. 04
    Crispy Shaobing Main Store

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.