People usually use Pearl River and White Clouds  to praise Guangzhou. White Clouds" refers to Baiyun Mountain, and Pearl River means thePearl River. Baiyun Mountain, belonging to the ending section of Jiulian Mountain Range, Dayu Mountain Branch, is located north of Guangzhou city with a distance of 6 kms. Baiyun Mountain is made up of over 30 peaks with a mountain area of 28 km2, be equivalent to the total area of Macao. The highest peak Moxing Peak is 382 ms and is the highest in Guangzhou. When the sun comes out after rain, the white clouds of the mountain wreathe around the green mountains and the blue waters, making beautiful sceneries, so it is called Baiyun Mountain.

Baiyun Mountain is full of great momentum and vigor with undulating mountains and staggering clenches. The roads on the mountain radiate to all directions. The sceneries are beautiful and elegance with places of historical interest and scenic beauty spreading all over the place like stars in the sky. Baiyun Mountain became well known from the early ancient times. Famous personages came here in the Warring States Period, the sceneries had been amenity in Jin Dynasty and it had been well known as a famous scenic spot. Eight Sceneries of Guangzhou since Song Dynasty has several spots in Baiyun Mountain. Every year on the Double Ninth Festival Guangzhounese take it a pleasure to go to Baiyun Mountain. At that time, a featured scenic picture of Guangzhou comes into being with liveliness of bustling people along with the old and the young. After founding of new China, at recognition and under construction of Guangzhou Municipal Government of all previous sessions, Baiyun Mountain Scenic Spot management Bureau has been set up. After several years of elaborations, Baiyun Mountain has been constructed to be the large-scale national scenic area and one of the first group of AAAA Tourist Spot.

As thousands of years went by, although there were many places of historical interest and scenic beauty, few had been left after many times of prosperity and abandon, particularly in the near one hundred years of swift changes of the world, it had been damaged frequently and only a scene of devastation left. Until the liberation of China, only the broken walls of the First Peak of South Sky memorial archway and parts of the temples were left. After liberation, Baiyun Mountain got a new life. Guangzhou Municipal Government organized the public to plant trees and built up 10 reservoirs and broke new roads to connect the south and the north, constructed the North Mountain Park and the Mountaintop Park as well as Mountain Lodge and Shuangxi Guest House, thus recurred the garden sceneries of verdant forest and lively vitality of Baiyun Mountain.