Major Cities of Anhui :Hefei, Huangshan,Huainan, Bengbu, Wuhu, Jiuhuashan,Tongling, Anqing, Manshan, Huaibei, Tunxi.

Northern Anhui

Northern Anhui’s high points are the roads, which run flood-proof embankments a few metres above the green, pancake-fiat padi fields. Certainly, about the only geographic features are rivers such as the hua He, setting for the rather drab industrial and grain centre of BENGBU. The battle of Huai Hai took place nearby in 1948, when a million Guomindan and PLA combatants fought a decisive encounter in which the guerrill trained Comnmnists overran Chiang Kaishek’s less flexible forces. A demoral ized GMD surrendered in Beijing in January the next year, and though resumed when the two sides couldn’t agree on terms, it was largely a mopping up operation by the Communists against GMD bastions. All this is mainly background for what you’ll see along the way, but histori ans, town planners and anyone interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine find a smattering of attractions at Shouxian - feasible as a day-trip from the capital - and Bozhou, which is worth a day’s scrutiny on the long haul into or out of the province. There are minibuses through the day from Hefei’s Shengli Lu depots to Bozhou or Shouxian; make sure with the latter that you don’t end up getting herded aboard a bus bound for the more familiar tourist destination of Shexian (the local pronounciation is very similar). Less conve niently, the daily train from Hefei to Bozhou leaves at around 3am.