The Tour of Guangxi is one of Asia’s leading professional cycling stage races and the final event of the men’s UCI WorldTour calendar. First held in 2017, the six-stage race takes the international peloton through the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China, a territory celebrated for its dramatic limestone karst formations, subtropical landscapes, river valleys and remarkable cultural diversity. Its changing routes combine fast urban finishes with rolling countryside and decisive climbs, offering a distinctive conclusion to the international racing season.
Around the Peloton follows the Tour of Guangxi stage by stage, exploring a region where spectacular natural scenery intersects with centuries of Chinese history and the traditions of the Zhuang and other ethnic communities. From the waterways and agricultural landscapes of the Guangxi interior to historic settlements, mountain villages and the extraordinary karst hills, the race becomes a journey through one of China’s most geographically and culturally fascinating regions, revealing the places and stories beyond the competition.
The Tour of Guangxi reaches its final day in Yizhou, where the previous stage ended among the river valleys and cultural traditions associated with Liu Sanjie. Over the following 170 kilometres, the race turns south through the interior of Guangxi…
For four days the Tour of Guangxi has travelled progressively deeper into western Guangxi, following waterways through karst basins, crossing the Youjiang valley, tracing underground rivers around Fengshan and finally reaching the immense engineered waters of the Hongshui around Tian’e.…
Stage 3 reached Bama after crossing one of the great geographical transitions of western Guangxi, descending from the high basin of Jingxi to the Youjiang before climbing back into the mountains. Stage 4 begins among those mountains and never truly…
Stage 2 spent its final kilometres climbing into Jingxi, reaching a high karst basin close to the Vietnamese frontier after an afternoon in which the landscape seemed steadily to rise around the race. Stage 3 begins at 748 metres above…
Stage 1 returned to Chongzuo after making a broad circle through the low karst country of the Zuo River. Stage 2 leaves that circle behind and points west, towards a landscape increasingly shaped by altitude, limestone and the proximity of…
The Tour of Guangxi begins in a corner of China where the landscape already seems to belong partly to another world. Chongzuo lies in the far southwest of the country, close enough to Vietnam for the frontier to have shaped…
