2026 Shaoshan Half Marathon（2026韶山半程马拉松）

The Juan River (Chinese: 涓水), also known as Baiguo River (Chinese: 白果河), Yisu River (Chinese: 易俗河) and Xingle River (Chinese: 兴乐江), is a left-bank tributary in the middle reaches of the Xiang River in Hunan, China. The river rises in the Changshan Mountains (Chinese: 昌山) of Shuangfeng County, and its main stream runs generally southwest to northeast through Shuangfeng, Hengshan and Xiangtan counties, joining the Xiang at Yisuhe of Xiangtan. The Juan River has a length of 103 kilometres (64 mi), and its drainage basin covers an area of 1,764 square kilometres (681 sq mi).

Haihui Temple stands on Dahu Street in Yuhu District, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, China. It is a Chinese Chan Buddhist monastery and at the same time a bhikkhuni (nuns') temple. It is now the seat of the Xiangtan Buddhist Association.

Xiangtan (Chinese: 湘潭) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, are in Xiangtan's administration, as well as the hometowns of Qing dynasty and republic era painter Qi Baishi, scholar-general Zeng Guofan, and tennis player Peng Shuai. Xiangtan forms a part of the Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region with Changsha as the core city along with Zhuzhou, also known as Changzhutan City Cluster, one of the core cities in Central China. Xiangtan is one of the top 200 cities in the world by scientific research outputs, as tracked by the Nature Index. It is home to Xiangtan University, a Double First-Class Construction university, and two provincial key public universities of Hunan Institute of Engineering and Hunan University of Science and Technology, as well as a high-tech industrial development zone.<