Guazhou belongs to Ganjiang District of today's Yangzhou.

Guazhou has a deep history, rich cultural deposits, cultural relics, people, tourism resources are very rich, and coincides with China's first, the world's third Runyang Yangtze River Highway Bridge in the territory of the construction of Guazhou Guadu development presents splendid business opportunities.

According to historical records, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, Guazhou gradually have barricades, South Song Qian Dao four years, Guazhou began to build the city, the Ming Dynasty, Guazhou City perimeter of one thousand five hundred and forty-three feet by nine feet, two feet by one foot high. In Guazhou City, outside the east gate, there is another "ghost willow city". In the Yuan Dynasty, the province was set up here; in the Ming Dynasty, the Tongzhi Office was set up; and in the Qing Dynasty, the Inspection Office, the Cao Yunfu, and the Governor's Office were set up here.

Guazhou was a place of literati from the Tang Dynasty to modern times. Li Bai and Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Anshi and Lu You in the Song Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong in the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty all left a lot of poems in Guazhou.

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In 1978, the Guazhou Steam Ferry was built, and on May 1, 2005, the Runyang Yangtze River Bridge was opened to traffic. The importance of Guazhou has risen, and in 2003, the city master plan of Yangzhou City made Guazhou as a sub-center of the city and a tourist attraction.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were famous for the Ten Scenes of Guazhou: the Stone Bridge and the Moon, the Sky Pond and the Night Rain, the River Tower and the Martial Arts, the Cao Ship and the Wind, the Willow Bank of the Eastern City, the Early Warbler of the Peach Dock, the New Geese of the Rutting, the Snowy Fishing Boat, the Lamps of the Jinshan Pagoda, and the Clear Sky of the Silver Ridge.

Guazhou Gudu Park: Sinking Box Pavilion, rumored to be the sinking place of "Du Shiniang's Anger and Sinking of Hundred Treasure Chests".

Runyang Forest Park: covering an area of 232 hectares, built in 2005, the park was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty Daguan Tower, which is 62 meters (88 meters) high.

The future Guazhou Ancient Town will be an international leisure resort with history and culture as the background, natural ecology as the support, canal and ancient ferry as the core, and modern tourism as the means. In the development of ideas, the entire resort in accordance with the "a planning, step by step operation, rolling development" of the idea, follow the "embodiment of the cultural qualities of the canal.

Integration of health and leisure concepts, reproducing the prosperity of commerce and trade" principle, the Guazhou ancient town into "China's first town of the canal". The main projects that have been completed or under construction include: Zhongwei Guazhou International Campground, Sun Island and other sports and leisure areas.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Guazhou