Chishui City, the place where the Red Army crossed the Chishui River for four times during the Long March, has a Long history of 800 years.
It is located in the hilly transit area from the northern foot of Daloushan Mountain to the Sichuan Basin. It has a humid sub-tropical monsoon climate. The average annul temperature of most part of Chishui is 18.1¡ãC. The annul precipitation is around 1,268.80 mm. The frost-free period is 350 days every year. The total sunshine time is 1,290 hours per year with the sunshine rate of 29%. Chishui is rich in the resource of living things with the total number of 2,500 kinds. Chishui was appraised to be "the homeland of bamboo" by the Forestry Ministry in 1996. It was also appraised "the experiment zone of ecology in China" by the National Environment Protection Bureau. Chishui is rich in water resource. The reserve quantity in theory is 330,000 kilowatt and the electricity energy production will be 830 million kilowatt hour. There are many kinds of other resources such as natural gas, coal, bittern and silica. Chishui as well has a great deal of forests. There are 1,490,0OO mu of forests with the forest cover rate of 55.24%. Chishui is a fruit base in Guizhou Province. More than 40 kinds of sub-tropical fruits are planted there.
Moreover, there are more than 630 square kilometers in the city. The tour interests are all over the city.

Population: 300,000

Area: 1,802 sq km