Located 70 kilometers south of Zhangxian County, Guiqingshan National Forest Park is the most distinctively beautiful spot in the Loess Plateau. It is honored as “small Huashan Mountain" and “Guiqing Fairyland" in the central Gansu region, attracting visitors with its magnificent mountains, clean water and various forest plants. This park is composed of two major parts and they enhance each other’s beauty-- Guiqing Mountain in the east and Zheyang Mountain in the west.


Guiqingshan lies in a limestone-heavy area, with mountains of various shapes “propping up the sky". Having two zones—Guiqing Mountain and Guiqing Valley, the forest park tales up an area of 2.33 thousand hectares and there are over 200 hectares of thousand-year-old pine trees and old-growth forest in Gusha Buddhist Temple, which is called “a natural botanical garden" for growing more than 500 breeds of medicinal plants and plants for beautifying or appreciating purposes. Founded in the Ming Dynasty, Gusha Temple has enjoyed the long-standing popularity for five hundred years. The annual Temple Fair is held on 8th August in lunar calendar and receives tens of thousands of visitors and pilgrims on that day every year.