Situated in southwest China and attributed to subtropical plateau zone, Guizhou is known as "Qian" for short. Mountains and hills take up 97% of the total area of the province. With unique surroundings, varied topography, pleasant weather and a temperature of 15¢Xc on an average without sever cold in winter and sweltering hot in summer, it is the most immensely developed area of karst in the world.
The province is rich in tourist resources featured in colorful variety, wide distribution and admirable sightseeing. Waterfalls, canyons, mountains, rock forests, lakes, hot springs and karst caverns are located everywhere in the province. The 8 world's wellknown national level scenic resorts are Huangguo Tree, Dragon Palace, Gold Woven Cavern, Wuyuang River, Red Maple Lake, Libozhang River, Maling River and Cishui; five national level reserves are Fanjing Cavern, Plant, Maolankashite Virgin Forest, Cishui Horse Chestnut and Weiningcaohai Birds, the tropical evergreen broadleaf forest of Central Asia in Xishui and 24 provincial scenic resorts with special flavor including Flower Brook, Mud Pit and Rock Forest, etc.

Guizhou permeates unsophisticated local customs, unique national culture and fantastic habits with a long history and numerous historic heritages and relics, involving 9 national level key reserves and 239 provincial cultural relic preserves, such as the Zunyi Meeting site, Yangcan Mausoleum, Puding Through-cave Paleoanthropogenic cultural relics, Zhengyuan Dragon Cave, Congjiang Doug Stockade Drutn Tower, Bijie Yi ethnic Tribe Chiefs Manor, Dafang Maiden Tomb, the former site of Xifeng Concentration Camp and Pan County Cavern.

In the past few years, with the swift development of tourism in GUlzhon, four major tourist routes have been formed stretching towards east, west, south and north with Guiyang as the center. The eastern route centers on national flavor, the western route features in natural landscape, the northern route is praised for renowned cities and wines and the southern merges natural attractions and national style into a whole.

Perhaps no scenic spot in Guizhou Province is better known than Huangguoshu Waterfall on Baishui River 15 km to the southwest of Zhenning County and 137 km from Guiyang. When the Baishui River flows to Huangguoshu, the fractured riverbed forces it to fall in the form of an 81-metre-wide water curtain into the Xiniu Pool 74 metres down below, causing an unceasing din and shooting a shower of water droplets up to a height 0f 90 metres. A pavilion built on the opposite bank provides a panoramic vista of the spectacle, billed as the largest waterfall in China. The waterfall happens to form the curtain for a cave hidden behind it.

A national scenic resort, the Dragon Palace at Longtan Village, Anshun, is a topographical phenomenon that is typical of a limestone landmass. It is actually a cave, whose gorgeous interior is suggestive of the crystal palace in Chinese mythology. A 3,000-metre section of the underground river that runs through the "palace" has been opened up, so that tourist boats can sail directly into its depth.

Situated in northeast Zhijin County, Zhijin Cave is an imposing cave whose 300,000-square-metre floor sets the stage for numerous dazzling scenes and sights. In between clusters of poodles and by a swaying underground lake is a jungle of stalactos, clints and stalagmites akin to pagodas, pillars and hills. For the 40 or so limestone formations init, the cave is honoured as "King of Caves" or "Museum of Limestone Caves". A 6.6-km section of it has been divided into ten zones for public viewing.

The 2,572-metre-high Fanjing Mountain is a national nature reserve in Tongren Prefecture in east Guizhou, or 30 km from the seat of Jiangkou County. The mountain's typical karst landform is covered with what is believed to be the best protected of all virgin forests at the same latitude of the globe. Compared to a piece of emerald on earth, the quiet, mysterious and somewhat precipitous Fanjing Mountain teems with rare and precious animals and plants.

Along ChuanQian Railway in the north part of Guizhou. Zunyi prefecture has under its jurisdiction I Honghuagang district 12 counties and Cities. It contains the following natural reserves the Zunyi Meeting site. Red Army Gray e, Xiangshan 1 cm ple, Yangcan Fomb, Taoxi Temple. Loushan Pass. Cishui Scenic Resort and I Horse Chestnut Natural Reserves, etc, ,1s ;m ancient city on the plateau of northern Qian. Zunyi 1 is a famous city rich in historic AND cultural heritages mid it is the tourist center in north China.

Locatcd at the center oft he old cite of Honghuagang district. the Zunyi Meeting Site is a northfacing twostorey hot lding of brickwood strucdture in a combination of Chinese and \Neste rn styley. In January 1935, the Chinese Red Army passed through this town during the Long March and the "Zunyi Meeting " of historic significance was held here by the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party.