Yangzhou – An awesome city with its landscape and culture. UN Habitat Scroll of Honor Award.

The city has its own airport, Yangzhou Taizhou Airport, which is located at Dinggou Town, Jiangdu District, and 30km away from the city center area. Currently, it serves flights daily to over 10 large cities in China, including Beijing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shenyang, Xian, Guangzhou, Kunming, Sanya, Harbin and Chengdu. Visitors can also fly into Nanjing Lukou International Airport and then take the daily buses (about 1.5 hours) to get to this city. 

Yangzhou has subtropical monsoon climate with humid, variable winds; the winters are longer, about 4 months, with summers 3 months, and shorter springs and autumns, 2 months respectively; annual average frost-free period of 222 days and 2177 hours sunshine. 

Average Annual Temperature: 15 °C; the hottest month is July with an average temperature of 27.6 °C and the coldest is January with average of 1.7 °C; overall maximum temperature of 39.8 °C and minimum - 19 °C.

Yangzhou Fried Rice is the most famous one among the entire gamut of Yangzhou cuisine. Nearly all visitors to Yangzhou have tasted the authentic dish. It is usually fried with eggs and scallions and various ingredients, such as shrimp, ham, sausage, sleeve-fish etc. It is also known as “Gold wraps silver”. Cooked without eggs, it’s called “Crystal Rice”.

This is another famous Yangzhou dish. The noodle-looking things are actually a type of dried tofu called dòu fu gān, which literally means “dry tofu.” It has a firm, chewy texture similar to noodles. Like all tofu dishes the tofu soaks up all the flavors it is mixed with. This dish contains some greens and bamboo shoots all cooked in a delicious, light chicken based stock. It is a wonderful dish and can be found all over Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is one of China's historic cities dating back to the fifth century BC. Slender West Lake is a man-made lake where beautiful views and historic points coexist. It lies in the southwest of Yangzhou. The lake is a state-level scenic resort and gets its name because its outline is long and narrow like a slender, gentle girl. Walking along the lake, one can see many elegant styles of architectures. Some line along the shore of the lake, and others are actually built over the lake. They all possess different kinds of beauty. Numerous poems have been left by famous poets about the beautiful lake adding to its cultural importance.

Ge Garden must be the most famous private garden in Yangzhou City. Ge Garden uses bamboo and rocks as its principal elements and is characterized by stone-piling. Different rockeries are formed from different kinds of rocks to represent different scenes in the four seasons, hence the name 'four-season-rockery'. There are no other similar gardens anywhere in China. Compared to other plants, the garden gives priority to the bamboo.