Liaoning: The Red Beach of Panjin

The Red Beach lies in the southwest of Panjin City, China’s northeast Liaoning Province and is about 30 kilometers from the urban area. Taking the advantage of the rare red beach and the largest reed marshes in the world, and relying on the best preserved and the largest wetland resources worldwide, it is a ecotourism scenic spot combined with natural beauty and cultural landscape.

The grass which makes the red beach is a kind of delicate sea-bite plant: a plant that is grown in saline-alkali soil, and is also the only plant that can grow on this kind of soil. The color of the plant is green at beginning, and gradually becomes bright red from Middle March to early June. By September, the plant is in vivid red, covering the whole alkaline beach. The stunning red beach scenery appears only at the mud flat in Panjin.

The reeds and marsh here are the habitat of 236 kinds of birds. The most famous is the red-crowned cranes and world rare bird—Saunder's gull. Observing the cranes, gulls and other rare birds in the reeds sea is a tourism activity that is full of strong natural appeal. In this area, there is crane-observing platform. From midsummer to November the suaeda vegetation that is 26 km long and 1 km wide near the mouth of Liaohe River is fiery red and very spectacular, hence it is called "Red Beach".