- Guilin -

The name "Guilin" began in the Qin Dynasty, when Emperor Qin Shi Huang set up the three counties of Guilin, Xiang, and Nanhai, and Guilin County became famous because of the abundance of jade laurel in the area, which is the earliest origin of the name "Guilin. Guilin is a world-famous scenic city, a sacred place of wisdom, an important high-tech industrial base in China, an old industrial base in China, a large city of type II, a third-tier city, an international tourist city open to the outside world in China, an advanced zone of innovative development of the national tourism industry, and a comprehensive international tourism transportation hub, and an important node city at the strategic intersection of the Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and the ASEAN Free Trade Area. It is a national sanitary city, a national civilized city, the second batch of sponge city construction demonstration city, and an international tourist destination with a focus on new industries. It is one of the first batch of national famous historical and cultural cities, and belonged to Guilin County after Qin Shi Huang unified Lingnan. Guilin is an important university cluster in Guangxi, with 16 universities, including Guangxi Normal University, Guilin University of Electronic Science and Technology, Guilin University of Science and Technology, Guilin Medical College, and Army Special Operations College.