Atlas of China
Baoshan 保山Bǎoshān
Volcanoes, hot springs and jade traders on the old road to Burma
About Baoshan
Baoshan stretches west across the Nu (Salween) River and the Gaoligong Mountains, a global biodiversity hotspot, to the Myanmar border. Most visitors head for Tengchong, a jade-trading town ringed by dormant volcanoes, with the steaming vents of Rehai and the courtyard village of Heshun nearby. In 1944 Chinese troops fought to retake this frontier and reopen the Burma Road, battles remembered at the Songshan Battlefield and Guoshang Cemetery, and coffee grows in the warm Lujiang valley.
What to eat in Baoshan
- Tengchong fried rice cakes, 'Dajiujia' (大救驾)
- Baoshan small-bean coffee (保山小粒咖啡)
Featured places in Baoshan
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Tengchong Volcanoes & Rehai Hot Springs 腾冲火山与热海
Climb a dormant volcano's crater, then watch a boiling spring cook your eggs
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Heshun Ancient Town 和顺古镇
A hillside village of courtyard homes built on the fortunes of traders in Burma
Listed sites in Baoshan
18 sites in Baoshan are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Beihai Wetland 北海湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
Beihai is a protected wetland in a volcanic basin north of Tengchong. - Dongshan Grassland 东山草原 4A scenic area · on the map
Dongshan is an upland meadow on the hills east of Tengchong, a state pasture from 1983 that was badly overgrazed and has been restored since 2012. - Gaoligong International Coffee Culture Park 高黎贡国际精品咖啡文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A coffee-themed park in the Lujiang valley, Baoshan's main coffee-growing area below the eastern flank of the Gaoligong range, rated 4A in 2022. - Gaoligong Mountain Tea Expo Park 高黎贡山茶博园 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea-themed park in Qingshui township next to Tengchong airport, operating since 2013, with tea gardens holding a collection of more than 500 Chinese tea varieties and a tea-culture museum by the entrance. - Guoshang Cemetery 国殇墓园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Guoshang Cemetery was completed in 1945 for soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's 20th Army Group who were killed retaking Tengchong from Japanese forces in 1944. - Jiangdong Ginkgo Village 江东银杏村 4A scenic area · on the map
Jiangdong, in Gudong town north of Tengchong, is a cluster of four farming hamlets set among tens of thousands of ginkgo trees growing on fertile volcanic soil, more than a thousand of them over a century old. - Qihualing Flower Park 原乡栖花岭 4A scenic area · on the map
A flower and family leisure park at the foot of the Gaoligong range in Qushi township, developed by a property company as part of a holiday-housing project and rated 4A in 2020. - Qinghua Lake Wetland Park 青华海 4A scenic area
Qinghua Lake National Wetland Park spreads across the floor of the Baoshan basin on the east side of the city, taking in an East Lake and a West Lake, the Beimiao reservoir and the banks of the East River. - Rhododendron King Ancient Wood Park 杜鹃王古木博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
An exhibition park of about 5 ha in Tengchong's economic development zone that displays more than 300 pieces of ancient timber and tree roots, including yew, left uncarved and unpainted to show their natural colour, grain and shape. - Shanzhou Forest Farm 善洲林场 4A scenic area · on the map
This forest farm on Daliangshan in Shidian county was planted from 1988 by Yang Shanzhou, a former Communist Party secretary of Baoshan prefecture, who after retiring led local people in reforesting the mountain. - Simola Wa Village 司莫拉佤族村 4A scenic area · on the map
Simola is the middle hamlet of Sanjia village in Qingshui township, a Wa settlement with a history of more than 500 years. - Songshan Battlefield 松山战役旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Songshan, a mountain above the Nu (Salween) River, was held and heavily fortified by Japanese forces from 1942, cutting the Burma Road, until the Chinese Expeditionary Force took it in September 1944 after months of fighting. - Youdian River Park 右甸河公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside park along the Youdian River through the centre of Changning county town, built as a river clean-up and wetland-restoration scheme and opened in 2017. - Guangzun Temple 光尊寺 National heritage site · on the map
Guangzun Temple, north-east of Baoshan, is a temple complex where Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian worship share one site. - Hanzhuang City Site 汉庄城址 National heritage site
These are the rammed-earth walls of a town of the Eastern Han dynasty, linked to Yongchang commandery, which the Han set up in this area in AD 69. - Huitong Bridge 惠通桥 National heritage site · on the map
Huitong Bridge is a steel-cable suspension bridge over the Nu (Salween) River, finished in 1935 with funds raised by the overseas Chinese businessman Liang Jinshan and Chinese communities in Burma, and later the Burma Road's only crossing of the river. - Jade Emperor Pavilion, Baoshan 玉皇阁 National heritage site · on the map
The Yuhuang Ge is a Ming-dynasty pavilion dedicated to the Jade Emperor, the supreme deity of Chinese folk religion and Taoism. - Wenchang Palace, Qiluo 绮罗文昌宫 National heritage site · on the map
This temple complex in Xia Qiluo village honours Wenchang, the god of literature and examinations, and blends the layout of a Confucian temple with a Taoist shrine.
Getting to Baoshan
Train, flight and driving times from the cities most visitors come from, with stations, fares and how many run a day; each opens the full comparison.
- Shangri-La 香格里拉 high-speed train 5 h 35 min, 1 a day, from ¥197
- Jianshui 建水 train 7 h 57 min with a change at Kunming
- Jinghong 景洪 to Tengchong · 2 nonstop flights a day, 1 h 10 min in the air
On the map
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