Siping
People's Republic of China · Asia
About Siping
Siping, formerly Sipingjie, is a prefecture-level city in the west of Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It has a total population of 1,814,733 inhabitants, as of the 2020 census. Siping covers an area of 14,323 km2 (5,530 sq mi) and is located in the middle of the Songliao Plain, near the border with Liaoning and Inner Mongolia provinces.
Siping's history can be stretched to 3,000 years ago during the Shang dynasty. The Kingdom of Yan Ruins indicate that the Han Chinese People started moving into Northeast region of China during the Spring and Autumn period. Ancient ethnic tribes such as the Fuyu, the Goguryeo, the Khitans, the Jurchen, the Mongols, the Manchus, and Koreans have left behind cultural artifacts, including Hanzhou, Xinzhou, and the Yehe Tribe Cultural Artifacts.
Yehe Town in Siping is also the hometown of two empresses of the Qing dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Dowager Longyu.
However, Siping was a place of little importance until the completion of the railway between Changchun and the port of Dalian in 1902. With a rapidly growing population, Siping...
Siping travel guide
See
Siping Campaign Memorial Museum (四平战役纪念馆), Heroes Square, Gongyuan Bei Jie, Tiexi District (铁西区公园北街英雄广场内), ☏ +86 434 5011518, [email protected]. A museum about the Siping Campaign, a major military campaign of the Chinese Civil War. (updated Jan 2018)
Sleep
Siping Guest House, 12 South Yingbin Road, Tiexi District, ☏ +86 434 3624045, fax: +86 434 3625616. Siping City Jiping Hotel (四平市吉平宾馆; Sìpíngshìjípíngbīnguǎn), 104 Xinhua Avenue (新华大街104号; Xīnhuádàjiē (On the east of the city government site and next to Nanhu Park), ☏ +86 434 2222303. The only four star hotel in town. Sauna, hair salon, business center, supermarket, book shop, international travel agency, bar and coffee shop available
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.