Zunyi
Zunyi is a prefecture-level city in northern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, situated between the provincial capital Guiyang to the south and Chongqing to the north, also bordering Sichuan to the northwest.
Along with Guiyang and Liupanshui, it is one of the most important cities of the province. The metro area is made of three urban districts of the city, Huichuan, Honghuagang, and Bozhou, which had a population of 2,360,549 people. The whole prefecture, including 14 county-level administrative areas, had a population of 6,606,675 at the 2020 census.
Getting to Zunyi
There are two airports in Zunyi:
- 01Zunyi Xinzhou Airport
- 02Zunyi Maotai Airport
- 03Zunyi Railway Station
Worth seeing
Zunyi Conference and Revolutionary Historical Sites. As the site where Mao Zedong took full membership in the Politburo Standing Committee and where the CCP finally switched from a strategy favoring large battles and urban insurrection to rural guerrilla warfare, Zunyi is awash in Red History.
- 01Site of the Zunyi Conference
- 02Zunyi Conference Museum
- 03Old Town
Surrounding the Zunyi Conference Site are several blocks of "restored" Zunyi buildings.
- 04Xiangshan Temple
- 05Fenghuang Mountain National Forest Park
- 06Zunyi Memorial Park
Things to do
- 01Huichuan International Hot Springs Tourism City
Where to eat
Zunyi exhibits the same excellent snacks and specialties for which Guizhou as a whole (and Guiyang in particular) is famous. In Zunyi, three local delicacies are worth a mention: Liu Er Ma Mi Pi (刘二妈米皮): This snacking dish made with thick flat rice noodles is eaten by locals frequently as a light meal or to tide off hunger.
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