Heqing County Travel Guide

Heqing County (鹤庆县) is a county in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture located in southern Yunnan Province, China.Heqing Village & Xinhua Village: long history of handicraft craftsmanship, you will be visiting gold-making, silver-making, etc., workshops and you will have time to do some shopping if you wish.

Xinhua Village locates in the northwest of Heqing County, 7 km away from the center of the county and 12 km from the Lijiang airport. The Xinhua Village is a typical one where the Bai people live in a compact community. It has a population of 4,782 in 1,103 doors, of which 98.5% are the Bai ethnic people.

The Xinhua Village is well-known for its beautifully natural environment, local conditions and customs and the unique handicrafts. Its long history of making handicrafts began in the Ming dynasty. Recently on the path of reform, the local people have improved their traditional manufacturing and turned to the pattern in which one village is engaged in a profession and one family in a kind of handcrafts. Following this pattern, more than 100 kinds of their products are sold as far as to countries and regions such as India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, the United States, Taiwan, Tibet, Sinkiang, Sichuan and Guizhou. There are more than 50% of the villagers are engaged in this industry, making a contribution of more than 17,000,000 yuan RMB per year to the village.

Surrounded by hills and rivers, the Xinhua Village possesses of picturesque scenery with a strong color of the Bai lifestyle. It is a wonderful place for traveling, sightseeing and shopping for the sake of the convenient transportation abundant resources and the integration of rural scenery, dwelling and handcraft-producing.

Heqing Village, located in the northwest of Yunnan province, is not only a famous and long established county, but also a fascinating and picturesque tourist attraction. In this village, the mountainous area and valley area takes up 89.7% of the whole county. Many natural landscapes including the grand Mt. Ma’ershan, Mt. Shibaoshan, the huge Yang Bridge Cliff, the wandering Jinsha River and numerous deep pools and caves are natural resources of high value for tourists. Additionally tourists find the Heqing Dam interesting. These natural resources are now being explored extensively.

Rich in water features, the Heqing Village has about 100 springs and pools, the riverheads of a large area of grass, centered by the Mutun Village. This gives the Heqing County a reputation of a land flowing with milk and honey.

Heqing Village is located between the semi-tropical and frigid and temperate zones with a plateau monsoon climate. It is hot and rainy in summer and autumn there, and cold and dry in winter and spring. Owning to the special geography and landscape, the daily difference in temperature is perhaps 8 to 12 ℃  while the annual variation is slim  12 ℃, with a low  of 8 ℃, a high of 20 ℃, and an average temperature of 13.5℃.  Heqing lies in the tour line of Kunming-Dali-Yunnan Lijiang. It is the first-rank choice for the domestic and foreign tourists for a midway stop of their travels.