Location: Baoji (宝鸡) is situated in the junction of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan and is the gate of western part of Guangzhong plain.
Population: 3,736,700
Area: with an area of 18,117 square kilometers
Nationalities: Han
History: Baoji is the birthplace of Yan Emperor with a cultural history of more than 8,000 years.A lot of cultural relics could be found in Baoji city.
Climate: Baoji enjoys a temperate semi humid climate. The winter is cold and dry. Summer is hot. The annual average temperature is up to 12℃-14℃ in the valley of Wei River Plain. The annual average precipitation is between 590-900 mm, which is the highest in Baoji.
Transportation: Railway- Baoji, as one of the important railway hinges, is the main transport in the northwest and southwest of China. Lianyungang-Lanzhou Railway, Baoji-Chengdu Railway, Baoji-Zhongwei Railway, Baoji-Xian high-speed Railway and Baoji-Lanzhou high-speed Railway joint at Baoji. There are scheduled trains to Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Taiyuan, etc.
Highway-Jichangjie Coach Station is in the left of Baoji railway station, shuttling buses to the northern cities of Baoji such as Qianyang, Longxian etc.
Baoji Coach Station, opposite to the Yan Emperor Garden, has coached to countries of Baoji.
Baoji East Coach Station mainly services buses to Xianyang Airport and Xian.
Local Specialties: Taibai Wine, Xifeng Wine, Baoji capsicum, Colorful Clay Sculpture
Local Food: Qishan Saozi Noodle and Biangbiang Noodle are the two famous noodles
Attractions: Baiji Famen Temple- Famen Temple (法门寺), is ten kilometers from Fufeng county, is famous for its buried Sheli of Buddha. The 13-storeyed pagoda was rebuilt in 1987. In the course of cleaning up the pagoda's base, an underground palace of the Tang Dynasty, which had been closed for one thousand years, was excavated. This is the largest underground palace in pagodas found in China so far in which finger bone relic of Buddha and batches of precious cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty are treasured up.
Xianyang Museum- Xianyang Museum (咸阳博物馆) was constructed in Ming Dynasty and formally opened to public in 1962. Covering an area of 1,100 square meters, the whole museum consists of nine exhibition halls to display the cultural relics in Qin and Han Dynasties.
Maoling Mausoleum- Maoling Mausoleum (茂陵), the tomb of Emperor Wudi in Western Han Dynasty, is in grand scale. It is said that Maoling Mausoleum has the largest scale and the most abundant sacrifices among the imperial mausoleums of the Western Han Dynasty, which is named “the Chinese Pyramid”.

