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Panzhihua
Prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China

Panzhihua

Panzhihua, formerly Dukou (渡口), is a prefecture-level city located in the far south of Sichuan province, China, at the confluence of the Jinsha and Yalong Rivers.

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It has an administrative area of 7,423.42 square kilometres (2,866.20 sq mi), and a population at the 2020 census of 1,212,203. 806,395 lived in the built-up area made of 3 urban districts.

Get in

Getting to Panzhihua

The land transport in the area runs mainly north-south, along the valleys; the few east-west routes are through mountain passes. National Highway G5 runs through the area; the town is on a provincial highway a few km off it. G5 is one route between central Sichuan and Yunnan though highway G85, parallel to G5 and further east, provides a more direct Chengdu-Kunming route.

  1. 01
    Panzhihua Bao'anying Airport
  2. 02
    Panzhihua Station
  3. 03
    Panzhihua Bus Terminal Station
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    The village of Salad
  2. 02
    Bridge of Yajiang

    The Yajiang Bridge was built in the 1960s and is one of the important projects in the construction period of the third line.

  3. 03
    Huilongwan Cave Site
  4. 04
    Historic Site of Ha Wan
  5. 05
    West Chuk Temple
  6. 06
    Daejeon Conference Venue
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Panzhihua
  2. 02
    PanzhihuaMuseum
Eat

Where to eat

Address: No. 1, Renmin Road, East District Introduce:Features Sichuan hot pot, provide rich choice of ingredients and spicy flavor. Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 11:00 - 23:00 Features: Authentic Sichuan hot pot, suitable for tourists who like spicy taste. Address: No. 10, Daguan Street, West District Introduction: Sichuan cuisine is the main, providing a variety of local specialties of food.

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