Qianjiang Tidal Bore Resort

Qianjiang Tidal Bore Resort

Qianjiang Tidal Bore Resort is a national water conservancy scenic area.

Known as the "world's largest tidal bore," the Qiantang River tidal bore attracts countless visitors from home and abroad. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival each year, the tidal bore rises like a towering wall, with waves surging fiercely as if a thousand horses are galloping; clouds move toward the shore, and the waves crash with thunderous roars, churning up "thousands of piles of snow." Li Bai’s poetic line “The tide comes like a continuous mountain spewing snow” depicts the majestic power of the Qianjiang Tidal Bore.

Qianjiang Tidal Bore Resort is located in the world-famous tidal bore viewing destination — the Yanguan Tidal Bore Viewing Area. It is 130 kilometers from Shanghai and 42 kilometers from Hangzhou, offering very fast and convenient transportation. The resort is a tourist attraction that primarily serves flood discharge and tidal bore viewing functions, while also integrating science and technology, culture, and leisure. It has been listed among the first batch of provincial-level water conservancy tourism areas in Zhejiang Province. The area includes supporting facilities such as the Zhejiang Taihu Water Control Project Exhibition Hall, tidal bore viewing platforms, tidal bore observation corridors, tidal bore viewing pavilions, and tidal bore waiting halls, with a total construction area of over 8,600 square meters. Every year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, Yanguan hosts the "Tidal Bore Watching Festival." To facilitate tourist viewing, the hub also provides a "Yanguan Flood Discharge Hub Tidal Bore Viewing Schedule." There are also cultural attractions worth seeing: Yanguan’s "Sea God Temple," which is said to have an interior structure identical to that of an imperial palace, because while officials in the palace only attended one court session a day, the Qiantang River tide comes twice daily, once in the morning and once in the evening.