2026 Lijiang Xueshan Marathon（2026丽江雪山马拉松）

The Old Town of Lijiang (also called the Ancient Town of Lijiang) is located in Gucheng District, Lijiang, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China. It was listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site on 4 December 1997 and received an Asia-Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation in 2007.

Lijiang (Chinese: 丽江), formerly romanized as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of 21,219 square kilometres (8,193 sq mi) and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) made of Gucheng District. By the end of 2024, the registered population of the city was 1,243,700. Lijiang is famous for its UNESCO Heritage Site, the Old Town of Lijiang, which contains a mixture of different historical architecture styles and a complex, ancient water-supply system. It borders Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Panzhihua City in Sichuan Province to the east and it has one municipality and four counties. Lijiang City is located on the Yungui Plateau, abutting the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is one of the key forest areas in Yunnan Province, and one of the west–east power transmission bases of China's hydropower industry. Lijiang City is a multi-ethnic settlement: apart from the Han nationality, there are a total of 22 ethnic minorities. Lijiang is the only prefecture-level city with three World Heritage Sites. It is rich in tourism resources, with 104 widely recognised tourist attractions, including the Old Town of Lijiang, Yulong Snow Mountain, Tiger Leaping Gorge, and Laojun Mountain.<

Lijiang Black Dragon Pool Park, also called Jade Spring Park, is located north of the Old Town of Lijiang in Gucheng District, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province. It covers a total area of 6.253 million square metres at an altitude of 2,419 metres, and forms part of the Old Town of Lijiang, a World Cultural Heritage site. The Black Dragon Pool spring group is fed mainly by the Jiuzihai depression on the eastern slope of Xiang Shan and by springs from the surrounding mountain ranges; the pool water flows south through the Yu River into the Old Town of Lijiang and is the main source of the Old Town's water system.