County-level city · Sichuan

Huaying 华蓥市

Huaying (华蓥市) stands at the western foot of the middle section of the Huaying Mountains (华蓥山), where forest, stone formations, caves and Tianchi Lake (天池湖) shape the mountain scenery.

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A red statue of a woman in front of a rock inscribed with 'Huaying Mountain' at a scenic area gate
Statue at the entrance to Huaying Mountain scenic area, Huaying · 华蓥山景区大门塑像，华蓥市 Source-recorded photograph date: Taken on 2 April 2009. · Nyx Ning · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Administrative area
County-level city · 县级市
Part of
Guang'an
Chinese name
华蓥市
Local areas
County-level city guide

Area & population

Area in the source
470.00 km²
Population · 2016
360,000

Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.

Stone pillars and shifting views

The Thousand-Year Kiss (千年一吻) consists of two limestone pillars rising from the same base, about fifteen metres high. From one angle their upper sections appear separated; from another they seem to touch like kissing faces. The surrounding stone forest records the uneven effects of dissolution and weathering, with water eroding joints in the exposed limestone and leaving pillars and pinnacles.

An industrial mountain city

Huaying became a city in 1985, following the establishment of an industrial and agricultural district in 1978. It was an important industrial base in the Third Front construction programme (三线建设). It is also the hometown of An Bing (安丙), a military commander of the Southern Song dynasty (南宋).

Sources for this guide

华蓥市人民政府 · Huaying Municipal Government

华蓥市人民政府 · Huaying Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau

Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-26.

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Mist-shrouded limestone rock spire with a tree growing on topA limestone rock pinnacle known as 'stone blossoming' on Huaying Mountain, Huaying · 四川华蓥山石峰景观，当地称‘石头开花’ Source-recorded photograph date: Taken on 2 April 2009.

Huaying Mountain华蓥山

Huaying Shan is a karst mountain and national AAAA tourist area in Huaying City, Guang'an, in eastern Sichuan, known both for its stone-forest and solution-pillar landforms and as the site of the 1948 underground Communist uprising whose dead the municipal chronicles office associates with the region's Red Rock spirit.

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Sources & geographic information

Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.

Photo: Huaying Mountain · Nyx Ning · CC BY-SA 3.0. Full frame retained; proportionally resized and converted to WebP. No retouching or changes to the photographed subject. Card displays may crop the view.

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