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Pingxiang 萍乡Píngxiāng
Coal seams in the valley, alpine meadows on the mountain above
About Pingxiang
Pingxiang is a coal city on the Hunan border: the Anyuan colliery, set up in 1898 to supply the Hanyang Iron Works, was the scene of a famous miners' strike in 1922. Visitors come instead for Wugong Shan, where a granite ridge rises through alpine meadows and a sea of cloud to the 1,918-metre Baihe Peak, and for Yangqi Shan, where the Yangqi school of Chan Buddhism began in the 1040s.
What to eat in Pingxiang
- Lianhua blood duck (莲花血鸭)
- Pingxiang cured pork (萍乡腊肉)
Listed sites in Pingxiang
12 sites in Pingxiang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Wugong Shan Scenic Area (Luxi side) 武功山 5A scenic area
The Pingxiang (Luxi county) side of the Wugong Shan range is a national 5A area on a granite ridge that rises to Baihe Peak (Jinding), the range's highest point at 1,918 m. - Anyuan Miners' Strike Memorial Hall 安源路矿工人运动纪念馆 4A scenic area
A museum on the slope of Niuxingling in Anyuan, the old coal-mining quarter of Pingxiang, housed in a building opened in 1969 that replaced a first exhibition set up in the former workers' club in 1956. - Huajianli, Wugong Shan 武功山花涧里 4A scenic area · on the map
Huajianli is a leisure and culture-tourism complex at the foot of Wugong Shan, built as a lowland attraction to go with the mountain. - Mashan Happiness Village 麻山幸福村 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural-tourism village on the edge of Mashan town in the south-west of Pingxiang's Xiangdong District, set among farmland and rated a national 4A scenic area. - Xianfeng Sanbao Leisure Park 仙凤三宝 4A scenic area · on the map
A countryside leisure park at Zhuyuan village, Xuanfeng town, rated a national 4A scenic area as an agricultural leisure and sightseeing park. - Yangqi Shan and Putong Temple Pagodas 杨岐山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Yangqi Shan is a wooded karst mountain north of Pingxiang, regarded as the ancestral home of the Yangqi school of Chan (Zen) Buddhism. - Yueshang Guanghan, Guanghanzhai 月上广寒 4A scenic area · on the map
A countryside scenic area in Guanghanzhai township, in the forested hills in the south of Pingxiang's Xiangdong District, rated a national 4A scenic area in 2025. - Yunding Area, Wugong Shan 武功山云顶 4A scenic area · on the map
Yunding is a separately rated part of the Luxi side of Wugong Shan, listed as a national 4A scenic area in its own right in 2022 rather than as part of the 5A core. - Anyuan Railway and Mine Workers' Club Site 安源路矿工人俱乐部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The club of the Anyuan railway and mine workers, founded in May 1922, moved in 1923–24 into a new two-part building on Banbian Street square, designed and paid for by its members: a two-storey office block at the front and a lecture hall behind. - Anyuan Workers' Night School Site 安源路矿工人补习夜校旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A small building dating from 1922 on the slope of Niuxingling in Anyuan, listed nationally in 2019 as the site of the night school for railway and mine workers that was run alongside the Anyuan workers' club. - Shenggong Hall (Former Pingxiang Colliery Head Office) 盛公祠 National heritage site · on the map
A three-storey, German-style brick-and-timber building at the top of a slope, put up in 1898 when the Pingxiang colliery opened as its head office and later used as quarters for the German engineers the colliery employed. - Zongpingxiang Mine Portal, Anyuan 总平巷矿井口 National heritage site · on the map
The main entrance to the Anyuan colliery, built in 1898: a red-brick gateway about 6 m high set against the hillside and facing north, with a central arch leading down to the workings, guard rooms on both sides and, above the arch, a hammer-and-pick motif with the three characters of its name.
On the map
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