Guang’an White Pagoda

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5 RMB per person

0836-96929

Guang’an sits on the transitional zone from the bottom of the Sichuan Basin to the basin’s peripheral hills, with terrain rising gradually from west to east. It has a subtropical humid monsoon climate featuring warm temperatures and high humidity. The annual average temperature is approximately 17°C, and the annual precipitation stands at 1,201 millimeters. The climate is characterized by warm and dry winters and springs, hot and rainy summers, and continuous drizzle in autumn.

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Guang’an boasts an extensive highway network. Both the total mileage and average density of highways within its territory exceed the national average and Sichuan provincial average. The Guang’an–Linshui section of the Guang’an–Chongqing Expressway is open to traffic, and all remaining sections were fully completed before 2004. It takes only one hour to drive from Guang’an to Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, enabling convenient connections with air transport. After the Guang’an–Nanchong section of the Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway opened to traffic in 2004, the drive from Guang’an to Chengdu was shortened to just 2.5 hours. The planned Nanchong–Chongqing Expressway will run through Wusheng County. Once finished, every county, city and district under Guang’an will be connected to the national expressway network, and Guang’an will be fully integrated into the Chengdu–Chongqing–Shanghai tourism economic belt.

Three national highways (G210, G212, G319) pass through Guang’an, alongside four provincial highways including the Shizhu–Nanchong Line, as well as two county-level highways: Yuechi–Wusheng Road and Guang’an–Wusheng Road. Interlaced national, provincial and county highways form a "three horizontal, four vertical" transportation framework centered on railways and highways. Nowadays, it takes a maximum of 30 minutes by car from downtown Guang’an to any subordinate county, city or district, a well-known local transport project named the "Half-Hour Access Project".

Also known as the Sarira Pagoda, Guang’an White Pagoda stands on the bank of the Deaf Rapids of the Qujiang River, 2 kilometers away from Guang’an Economic & Technological Development Zone. It was constructed by An Bing during the Song Dynasty.

The pagoda is square-shaped with a total height of 36 meters, and each side of its base measures 10.5 meters. It is a ten-story multi-storey pavilion-style building imitating wooden architecture, built with brick and stone. In July 1980, Guang’an White Pagoda was designated a Provincial Cultural Relic Protection Unit by the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government