Baicheng travel guide

Baicheng (Chinese: 白城市; pinyin: Báichéng Shì; lit. 'White City') is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Jilin province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Heilongjiang to the east and northeast.

The area around present day Baicheng was a longtime hunting ground, and no farming was allowed until 1902, but now agriculture and agriculture industry play a major role. Baicheng was established in 1908 and was named Baicheng in 1938. The railways running through the city were established in the 1920s and 1930s and made Baicheng a regional transportation hub. Agriculture related industry, textile industry, a thermal power plant, a paper mill and other smaller plants are the industrial basis of the city. Two nature preserves are located nearby.

Getting in

The nearest airport is in Changchun. Trains from Beijing leave from Beijing North, take 16–18 hours and costs ¥126-383. There are also connections from Harbin (7 hours; ¥32-114), Changchun (5 hours ¥29-47), Dalian, (15 hours; ¥78-242) and Shenyang (7 hours; ¥67-206). Buses from Changchun take 3–4 hours.

Getting around

The city is relatively small and has occasional traffic jams, however multiple forms of transportation are available. Most of buses are convenient and you can wait for them for little time. But some of the buses that are in villages or far from the center of the city are not very convenient and you have to wait for them for a long time. Thankfully, the bus fare is not expensive and the fare of some buses is only ¥1 or ¥2. The more expensive fare is just over ¥5. Furthermore, the fare takes the bus from starting point to end point.

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