As a city with a long history and profound culture, Bozhou is an important birthplace of Taoism, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) culture and liquor culture. It is also a famous national historical and cultural city, an excellent tourist city, the hometown of longevity and the hometown of Wuqinxi (physical exercises imitating movements of five animals). It is home to a lot of sages and famous figures in Chinese history, such as Laozi, the founder of Taoism, Zhuangzi, an influential philosopher, Cao Cao, a notable political strategist, and Hua Tuo, a distinguished physician in ancient times.

Boyao Flower Sea

TCM market in Bozhou

Bozhou is renowned as the “thoroughfare between the north and south” with convenient transportation. Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Xuzhou-Fuyang Railway, Jinan–Guangzhou Expressway, and Nanjing–Luoyang Expressway all traverse the city. The Shangqiu-Hefei-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway is in operation, and Bozhou Airport will be open to air traffic soon, providing quick access to 35 large and medium-sized cities across the country.

Bozhou Chinese Medicine Exchange Center

The bustling TCM market in Bozhou

Bozhou is rich in resources with distinctive characteristics, and a "4+6" industrial cluster has been formed. It refers to four 100-billion-yuan-level industries of medicine, liquor, agriculture, and tourism, and six 10-billion-yuan-level industries of new energy, new materials, automobiles and parts, high-end equipment manufacturing, light textile and apparel, and new-generation information technology.

Farmers harvest chrysanthemum flowers in Bozhou.

Farmers harvest chrysanthemum flowers in Bozhou.

Fitness enthusiasts perform Wuqinxi (physical exercises imitating movements of five animals)

Bozhou Airport 

Employees work on the production line of a pharmaceutical workshop in Bozhou-based Jiren Pharmaceutical Group.

A photo of Bozhou

Shizheng Park in Bozhou

Huatuo Herbal Garden

An aerial photo of Bozhou

The Guo River in Bozhou

An aerial photo of Bozhou

(Text/Photos: Liu Qinli)