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11 unusual facts about Guilin


2010 in China

May 23 – 2010 Jiangxi train derailment: A train traveling from Shanghai to Guilin derails in a mountainous area near Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China, and is destroyed, killing at least 19 and injuring 71 others.

45th Portable Surgical Hospital

The trip to the front was made mostly by trucks except for the last 100 miles into Kwelin.

Guangxi Medical University

The university was established in Nanning, Guangxi on 21 November 1934 as the Guangxi Provincial Medical School (广西省立医学院), and the campus was moved to Guilin in November 1949, shortly after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

Hastings, New Zealand

The Hastings' relationship with the Chinese city Guilin started in 1977, after a research scientist, Dr. Stuart Falconer identified a number of common areas of interest between the two cities, including horticulture and their rural-urban mix.

Kam–Sui languages

Nearly all speakers of Kam–Sui languages originate in the Qiandongnan (Dong) and Qiannan (Sui, Then, Mak, Ai-Cham) Prefectures of Guizhou, as well as the prefecture-level cities of Hechi (Mulam and Maonan) and Guilin (Chadong) in northern Guangxi.

Lindsay Tasman Ride

While a colonel in the Indian Army, Ride formed and commanded the British Army Aid Group, headquartered in Kweilin, Kwangsi.

Liu Yazi

After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Liu initially remained in Shanghai, but fled first to Hong Kong, then in 1941 to Guilin, and for the last years of the war to China's wartime capital, Chongqing.

Rice baijiu

One famous brand of rice baijiu is called Sanhua jiu (三花酒; literally "three flower liquor"), which is produced in Guilin, China.

St. Agnes Tsao Kou Ying

One day, however, when she was helping out in Yaoshan, Guangxi (near present-day Guilin, Guizhou) in 1856, the local government decided to take some measures against the Christians living in that area.

Tang Xiaoyin

In the 200 metres she has 23.61 seconds, achieved in April 2004 in Guilin.

Zhuang people

The Han Dynasty reduced local authority and established military posts at Guilin, Wuzhou, and Yulin.


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Chinese armies in the Second Sino-Japanese War

During the last offensive, Japanese forces were again defeated in North Hupei, West Hunan, Hsihsiaoko, Laohoku, Ninhsiang, Yiyang, Wuyang, Liuchow-Kweilin, Nanning, Kwangsi, and Yuehcheng Shan.

Elephant's trunk

Elephant Trunk Hill, a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China.

Guangzhouwan

Just prior to the Japanese surrender which ended World War II, the National Revolutionary Army, having recaptured Liuzhou, Guilin, and Taizhou, as well as Lashio and Mandalay in Burma, was planning to launch a large-scale assault on Kwangchowan; however, due to the end of the war, the assault never materialised.

Hengyang-Liuzhou Intercity Railway

It departs from the Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway at Hengyang East Railway Station, it then travels west through the major cities of Yongzhou, Guilin and arriving at Liuzhou