How to take a bus from Chongqing to Daocheng Yading

1. If you are not driving by yourself, there are two ways to get to Daocheng Yading. The first is to take a flight from Chongqing to Daocheng, the second is to take a high-speed train from Chongqing to Chengdu, and buy a shuttle bus from Chengdu to Daocheng.

2. If you are driving by yourself, you don’t have to go to Chengdu first. You can go from Zigong, Leshan, and Ya’an at high speed. If you go to Chengdu, you can take a long detour. From Ya'an, take the G318 all the way to Litang and then south to Daocheng.

Daocheng County is located on the southwest edge of Sichuan Province in China, south of Garze Prefecture. It is located in the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and on the east side of the Hengduan Mountains. It belongs to the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the Kham Tibetan area.

Daocheng County spans 27°58'～29°30' north latitude and 99°56'～100°36' east longitude. It is 174 kilometers long from north to south and 63 kilometers wide from east to west. It is connected to Jiulong County in the east and Jiulong County in the west. It is adjacent to Xiangcheng County, Litang County to the north, Muli Tibetan Autonomous County to the south, and Yunnan Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to the southwest.

By the end of 2011, Daocheng County had an area of ??7,323 square kilometers and governed 12 townships, 2 towns, 2 communities, and 124 villages. The total population at the end of 2011 was 32,450, of which Tibetans accounted for more than 96%. In addition, there are Han, Naxi, Hui, Yi and other ethnic groups.

In 2011, Daocheng County achieved a total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery of 173 million yuan, an increase of 26.2% over 2010. The total sowing area of ??crops is 3560.13 hectares, and the sowing area of ??grain crops is 3143.4 hectares.

On September 25, 2018, it won the honorary title of "2018 Comprehensive Demonstration County for E-commerce into Rural Areas" from the Ministry of Commerce.

Extended information

Daocheng County belongs to the Kangba Cultural Zone and is an important part of the Kangba culture. The religion in Daocheng County is Lamaism of Tibetan Buddhism, with complete sects and numerous temples, with the White Sect and Yellow Sect as the main ones, as well as the Flower Sect and the Red Sect. There are 13 temples in the county, among which Shugden Monastery and Gonggaling Monastery are the most famous.

National costumes: Daocheng Tibetans belong to the Kham Tibetan ethnic group, and their costumes are particularly elegant and luxurious. Both men and women wear ornaments of different colors, shapes and patterns from head to toe. They are usually made of gold, silver, copper, agate, jade, coral, turquoise and other finely crafted ornaments. Daocheng Tibetan clothing, in terms of color, style, texture, etc., gives people a sense of simplicity, solemnity, thickness, boldness, preciousness and mystery.

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