Introduction to Guilin

Guilin is a world-famous scenic tourist city and a famous historical and cultural city in China. It is the political, economic, cultural and technological center of the northeastern region of Guangxi and the border area of ??Guangxi and Hunan. Guilin City governs 6 districts: Xiufeng, Diecai, Xiangshan, Qixing, Yanshan and Lingui, and 11 districts including Yangshuo, Lingchuan, Quanzhou, Xing'an, Yongfu, Guanyang, Longsheng, Ziyuan, Pingle, Lipu and Gongcheng. County (autonomous county).

Districts and counties have jurisdiction over 13 sub-district offices, 86 towns and 48 townships, including 15 ethnic townships, 237 (community) residents' committees, and 1,654 villagers' committees. At the end of 2017, the city's total registered population was 5.3408 million.

Guilin is a world-famous scenic tourist city, an important international tourism city for the country’s opening to the outside world, an international tourism shipping hub, a national health tourism demonstration base, and a holy land of human wisdom for thousands of years; it is an international tourism city approved by the State Council Destination?; the permanent venue of the United Nations World Tourism Organization/PATA International Forum on Tourism Trends and Prospects, and the residence of the Guilin Joint Logistics Support Center of the Central Military Commission.

Preliminary statistics of Guilin tourism resource type entities are 1,099, including 231 geological landscapes, accounting for 21.0%; 112 biological landscapes, accounting for 10.2%; 78 hydrological landscapes, accounting for 7.1%; There are 364 historical heritage sites, accounting for 33.1%; 164 modern humanities and abstract humanistic landscapes, accounting for 15.0%; and 150 tourism service landscapes, accounting for 13.6%. Among the three major landscape resource series of natural, cultural and tourism services, landscape resources and cultural landscape resources are the main ones.

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Guilin City is divided into three geographical spatial levels: "city area", "planning area" and "central city" in terms of planning space:

1. The city scope is the administrative area of ??Guilin City, including 6 districts and 11 counties, with an administrative area of ??27,700 square kilometers.

2. The planning area includes six administrative districts: Xiufeng District, Diecai District, Xiangshan District, Yanshan District, Qixing District and Lingui District, and four counties: Lingchuan County, Yongfu County, Yangshuo County and Xing'an County It is an incorporated county with a total area of ??11,670 square kilometers.

3. The central urban area mainly includes the 4 districts of Xiangshan, Diecai, Xiufeng and Qixing under the jurisdiction of Guilin City, Zhemu Town and Yanshan Town in Yanshan District, Dingjiang Town and Dawei Town in Lingchuan County Some areas and Bali Street Economic Development Zone, Lingui Town, Sitang Township and parts of Miaoling Town in Lingui District, etc., with a total area of ??866.36 square kilometers.

Guilin Municipal People’s Government: Overview of Guilin