Fushun Hot Springs

Fushun Hot Springs are located in Fushun City, Liaoning Province, in the Hun River valley east of Shenyang, a city of immense industrial historical significance as the site of China's most important open-pit coal mine — the Fushun Coal Mine, which at its peak was the world's largest open-pit coal mine, a massive excavation stretching over 6 kilometers in length that transformed the city's topography and supplied coal to fuel much of China's industrialization throughout the twentieth century. The bicarbonate thermal waters here have served the local community through decades of heavy industrial activity, and the city's hot spring resources provide restorative bathing for a population whose mining heritage has left an extraordinary geological legacy visible in the vast pit that defines Fushun's urban landscape. Bathing at Fushun Hot Springs connects visitors to a city whose coal mining history represents one of the most dramatic chapters in China's industrial development, where the therapeutic mineral waters offer recovery in a city shaped by one of history's most intensive extraction industries.