A brief introduction to Guilin

1. Guilin, referred to as Gui, is a world-famous scenic tourist city and a holy land of wisdom for thousands of years. It is an international tourism city open to the outside world in China approved by the State Council, a national tourism innovation and development pioneer zone, and an international tourism comprehensive transportation hub. , as of 2019, the city has jurisdiction over 6 districts and 10 counties, and manages 1 county-level city, with a total area of ??27,800 square kilometers, a built-up area of ??162 square kilometers, a permanent population of more than 5.3 million, and an urban population of 2.4734 million. Urbanization The rate is 55%.

2. Guilin is located in South China, at the southern end of the Hunan-Guangxi Corridor. It is the residence of the Guilin Joint Logistics Support Center of the Central Military Commission, the National Sustainable Development Agenda Innovation Demonstration Zone, the weather vane of China’s tourism industry, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization/Asia-Pacific The permanent venue of the International Forum on Tourism Trends and Prospects of the Tourism Association, it is an important node city at the strategic intersection of the Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and the ASEAN Free Trade Area.

3. Guilin is one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities and the earliest cultural and education center in Guangxi history. In 1201, the famous poet Wang Zhenggong wrote a poem that "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". With Guilin's landscape as a world natural heritage and Lingqu as a world irrigation heritage, Zengpiyan is Guilin's historical and cultural business card that shows the Chinese nation's "tens of thousands of years of wisdom" to the world. The pottery ware discovered in Zengpiyan fills the gap in the origin of pottery in the world and is the key to Chinese pottery making technology. One of the important places of origin. Guilin is an important university gathering area in Guangxi, with 16 universities including Guangxi Normal University, Guilin University of Electronic Science and Technology, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin Medical College, and Army Special Warfare Academy. 1% of ESI subjects were selected into 4 universities, ranking first in Guangxi among the selected universities, and 32 subjects were selected in the fourth round of subject evaluation.

4. In November 2012, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Outline Development Plan for the Construction of Guilin International Tourist Resort", which regarded the construction of Guilin as an international tourist resort as an important measure for the in-depth implementation of the Western Development Strategy. In 2020 Develop Guilin into a world-class international tourism city. In July 2020, the World Rafting Championships will be held in Guilin.

5. As of the end of 2019, Guilin has jurisdiction over 6 districts: Xiufeng, Diecai, Xiangshan, Qixing, Yanshan and Lingui, 1 Lipu county-level city, and Yangshuo, Lingchuan, Quanzhou , Xing'an, Yongfu, Guanyang, Longsheng, Ziyuan, Pingle and Gongcheng 10 counties (autonomous counties). 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.