Qinzhou Hot Springs

Qinzhou Hot Springs is situated in Qinzhou City on the Beibu Gulf coast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a historically significant port city that serves as the birthplace of two of China's most celebrated military heroes of the Sino-French War, Feng Zicai and Liu Yongfu, whose victories at the Battle of Zhennanguan in 1885 are commemorated as a defining moment of Chinese national resistance to 19th-century Western imperialism. The city's coastline encompasses an important mangrove ecosystem and the Sanniang Bay marine reserve where Chinese white dolphins, the distinctive pink-tinged cetaceans known locally as the panda of the sea, are protected in one of their last remaining breeding habitats in Chinese coastal waters. The geothermal spring facilities here offer thermal bathing in a city of significant historical and ecological importance, where the warm mineral waters of the Beibu Gulf hinterland complement the maritime natural heritage and military history that define Qinzhou's distinctive coastal identity.