2026 Ji Ke Qiche Chengdu Marathon is a road running race at Sichuan Chengdu Jinsha Yizhi Bowuguan, China, on 2026-10-25 (Sun). Distances: Full Marathon. Entry status (last checked by RacingDay): Closed. This page was compiled by RacingDay from public data.
Qingyang Palace is a Taoist temple in China, located at 9, Second Section West, First Ring Road, Caotang Subdistrict, Qingyang District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, beside the Jin River. It is praised as 'the first Taoist temple of western Sichuan' and 'the first monastery of the south-west', is a nationally famous cultural relic tourist site and place of interest, and is the largest Taoist temple in south-western China. Its cultural relics include the Doumu Hall, the Bagua Pavilion, a bronze green ram, a stone carving of Patriarch Lu based on a painting by Wu Daozi, a statue of Zhang Sanfeng, and the woodblocks of the Daozang Jiyao treasured in the temple. Chengdu's Qingyang District takes its name from the temple. It was announced as a Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relic Protection Unit on 27 December 2002.
Wikipedia →Erxian An is located on the western second section of the First Ring Road, Caotang Subdistrict, Qingyang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, east of Qingyang Palace. It was first built in the thirty-fourth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing (1695) and is a Quanzhen Daoist shifang monastery and the founding ancestral court of the Bidong school of the Quanzhen Longmen lineage. On 27 December 2002 it was announced as a provincial cultural relic protection unit of the sixth batch of Sichuan Province.
Wikipedia →Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a population of 20,937,757 at the 2020 census, it is the country's fourth most populous city and the only city with a population of over 20 million apart from provincial-level municipalities. It is traditionally the hub of Western China. Chengdu is in central Sichuan. The surrounding Chengdu Plain is known as the "Country of Heaven" and the "Land of Abundance". Its prehistoric settlers included the Sanxingdui culture. The site of Dujiangyan, an ancient irrigation system, is designated as a World Heritage Site. The Jin River flows through the city. Chengdu's culture reflects that of its province, Sichuan; in 2011, it was recognized by UNESCO as a city of gastronomy. It is associated with the giant panda, a Chinese national symbol that inhabits the area of Sichuan; the city is home to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Founded by the Kingdom of Shu in the 4th century BC, Chengdu is unique as the only Chinese settlement that has maintained its name unchanged throughout the imperial, republican, and communist eras for more than two thousand years. It was the capital of Liu Bei's Shu Han Empire during the Three Kingdoms Era, as well as several other local kingdoms during the Middle Ages. During World War II, refugees from eastern China fleeing from the Japanese settled in Chengdu. After the war, Chengdu was briefly the capital of the Nationalist republican government until it withdrew to Taipei on the island of Taiwan. Under the PRC, Chengdu's importance as a link between Eastern China and Western China expanded, with railways built to Chongqing in 1952, and Kunming and Tibet afterward. In the 1960s, Chengdu became an important defense industry hub. Chengdu is one of the most important economic, financial, commercial, cultural, transportation, research, and communication centers in China. Its economy is diverse, characterized by the machinery, automobile, medical, food, and information technology industries. Chengdu is a leading financial hub, ranking 35th globally on the 2021 Global Financial Centres Index. Chengdu also hosts many international companies; more than 315 Fortune 500 companies have established branches in the city. Chengdu is the third Chinese city with two international airports after Beijing and Shanghai. Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, and the newly built Tianfu International Airport, a hub of Air China and Sichuan Airlines, is one of the 30 busiest airports in the world, and the Chengdu railway station is one of the six biggest in China. Chengdu is considered a "Beta + (global second-tier)" city classification (along with Barcelona and Washington, D.C.) according to the GaWC. As of 2023, the city also hosts 23 foreign consulates, the fourth most in China behind Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Chengdu is the seat of the Western Theater Command region of the People's Liberation Army. In 2023, Chengdu became the third Chinese city to host the Summer World University Games, after Beijing and Shenzhen. In 2025, the city also hosted the World Games. It is considered one of China's best cities to live in, and also a national central city. Chengdu is a major city for scientific outputs, ranking at #21 globally and 2nd in Western China after Xi'an. The city is home to the greatest number of universities and research institutes in Western China. Notably, these include: Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan Normal University, and Xihua University.
Wikipedia →Huanhuaxi Park is located at No. 9 Qinghua Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, adjoining Du Fu's Thatched Cottage to the north and the Sichuan Museum to the east. It is the only five-star park in Chengdu.
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