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Fushun 抚顺Fǔshùn
'Capital of coal' and homeland of the Qing founders
About Fushun
Fushun, on the Hun River east of Shenyang, grew up as a coal city around the vast West Open Mine, while its eastern hills were the homeland of the Qing founders: at Hetu Ala, Nurhaci proclaimed himself khan in 1616, and nearby Yongling, one of the UNESCO-listed imperial tombs, holds his forebears. The Fushun War Criminals Management Centre, where the last emperor Puyi was held in the 1950s, and the Pingdingshan Massacre Memorial Hall cover the Japanese occupation and its aftermath.
What to eat in Fushun
- Malaban, spicy mixed salad (麻辣拌)
Listed sites in Fushun
13 sites in Fushun are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Fushun Lei Feng Memorial Hall 抚顺雷锋纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Opened in 1965 near the former barracks of Lei Feng's army unit, this memorial park commemorates the soldier Lei Feng (1940–1962), who became the subject of a long-running national 'Learn from Lei Feng' campaign. - Hemu National Forest Park 和睦国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Hemu is a long, narrow forest park in the Longgang foothills of Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, about 7.5 km from end to end and covering some 20,300 mu (about 1,350 ha). - Hetu Ala 赫图阿拉城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Hetu Ala was the first capital of Nurhaci, the Jurchen leader who began building the city in 1603 and proclaimed himself khan here in 1616, founding the Later Jin state, the forerunner of the Qing dynasty. - Kuangzigou Scenic Area 筐子沟景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Kuangzigou is a forested river-valley scenic area in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County, with forest cover given as 95 percent by the local tourism bureaus. - Nantianmen Scenic Area 南天门景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Nantianmen is a mountain-and-water leisure resort in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County with a planned area of about 10 sq km. - Red River Gorge Rafting 红河峡谷漂流 4A scenic area · on the map
Red River Gorge is a 12.8 km river-rafting run through a forested, U-shaped valley in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County, known locally as the 'Little Three Gorges of the north-east' and promoted with the slogan 'the first rafting in the north'. - Sankuaishi National Forest Park 三块石国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Sankuaishi is a mountain forest park in Fushun County, named for three huge boulders that stand together on a high summit; its main peak reaches 1,131 m. - Shenxian Valley Eco-Resort 参仙谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Shenxian Valley ('Ginseng Immortal Valley') is a forest leisure resort of about 1,360 ha in the mountains of Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, developed over several years from the mid-2010s. - Tiannüshan Forest Park 天女山森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Tiannüshan is a forested mountain park in Fushun County whose main peak rises to 780 m, covering about 1,380 mu (some 92 ha). - Fushun War Criminals Management Centre 抚顺战犯管理所旧址 National heritage site
Built by the Japanese authorities in 1936 as a prison, the site was turned in 1950 into a detention and re-education centre for Japanese war-crimes suspects, officials of the Manchukuo regime including the last Qing emperor Puyi, and captured Nationalist officers. - Pingdingshan Massacre Memorial Hall 平顶山惨案纪念馆 National heritage site · on the map
Pingdingshan was a village beside Fushun's coal workings where, on 16 September 1932, Japanese troops killed villagers in reprisal for an attack by an anti-Japanese volunteer army the night before; the memorial gives a toll of more than 3,000. - Yongling Tomb, Xinbin 清永陵 National heritage site
Yongling is the burial ground of Nurhaci's forebears: his father Taksi, grandfather Giocangga, great-grandfather Fuman and the earlier ancestor Mengtemu, together with two of his uncles. - Yuanshuailin, Zhang Zuolin's Mausoleum 元帅林 National heritage site · on the map
Yuanshuailin ('Marshal's Grove') is a mausoleum begun in 1929 by Zhang Xueliang for his father, the warlord Zhang Zuolin, who was killed in 1928.
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