Atlas of China
Fangchenggang 防城港Fángchénggǎng
Ha songs, a one-string zither and beaches on the Vietnamese border
About Fangchenggang
Fangchenggang holds the western end of China's mainland coast, a young port city whose beaches, among them Bailang Beach and Golden Beach, face the Beibu Gulf. The Jing Islands are home to most of China's Gin (Jing) people, descendants of settlers who came from around Hai Phong in Vietnam about 500 years ago and who keep their Ha song festival and single-string zither. Dongxing, on the Beilun River, has a crossing to Mong Cai in Vietnam, and inland rise the forests of the Shiwandashan.
What to eat in Fangchenggang
- Jing 'wind-blown' cakes (京族风吹饼)
Listed sites in Fangchenggang
7 sites in Fangchenggang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Bailang Beach 白浪滩 4A scenic area · on the map
A long sandy beach on the Jiangshan Peninsula south of Fangchenggang, whose name means 'white waves', developed since the 1990s from a fishing village's shore into a beach resort with clean sea and fine sand. - Beilun Estuary & Zhushan (Dongxing Border River Scenic Area) 东兴中越界河 4A scenic area · on the map
The mouth of the Beilun River at Zhushan, where the border river between China and Vietnam meets the sea, marked by the Qing boundary stone No. 1 of 1890 and the zero-kilometre monument of the Guangxi border highway. - Dongxing Border Gate (Guomen) 东兴国门 4A scenic area · on the map
The riverside area around the Dongxing port, a first-class national land crossing to Mong Cai in Vietnam over the Beilun River, where the frontier inspection building at the end of the Beilun River Bridge is known locally as the 'national gate'. - Jing Islands & Golden Beach 京岛 4A scenic area · on the map
The 'three Jing islands' of Wanwei, Wutou and Shanxin, now joined to the mainland by land reclamation, are home to most of China's Gin (Jing) people, whose ancestors came from the Hai Phong area of Vietnam about 500 years ago and who speak the Gin language alongside Cantonese. - Shiwandashan Bird Park 百鸟乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A bird park inside the Shiwandashan National Forest Park on the Hongqi forest farm, with aviaries holding many species of birds in a setting of subtropical broadleaf forest. - Shiwandashan Butou Hot Springs 十万大山布透温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort in a valley about 5 km from Shangsi town at the foot of the Shiwandashan, built around a low-temperature carbonate spring that the old county gazetteer records as used locally since the Ming. - West Bay (Xiwan) Waterfront 西湾 4A scenic area · on the map
The waterfront of West Bay in the centre of Fangchenggang, where a walkway of almost 50 km links a tourist wharf, a city beach and about 15 parks around the bay.
On the map
Open Fangchenggang on the illustrated map to see its outline, its places and listed sites together, and to add them to a trip.
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