Lingui district

Lingui district is located in the northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, covering an area of 2,247 square kilometers. With 11 townships and 161 administrative villages (residential communities), the district was home to 513,400 people, including people of Zhuang, Han, Yao, Hui, Miao and Dong ethnic groups, in 2017.

Lingui has great geographical advantages. The district is only five kilometers from the downtown area of Guilin, and just 10 kilometers from Guilin Liangjiang International Airport. The Guilin-Beihai Highway, the Guilin-Wuzhou Highway, No.321 state-level road, No.306 provincial-level road and Hunan-Guangxi Railway traverse the district. The Guilin-Sanjiang Highway and the Guizhou-Guangxi Railway, which are under planning and construction, will also pass through the district upon completion.

With a subtropical monsoon climate, adequate sunlight and rainfall, and good air quality, Lingui has become an important national production base of crops, monk fruits, bamboos, and other special agricultural products.

The sown area of rice in Lingui has been maintained at about 48,000 hectares on an annual basis, with an annual output at about 250,000 tons. It annually produces 160 million monk fruits and 1.2 million bamboos.