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Sichuan visits Listings below
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Sichuan Brief Sichuan Province (Shu for short) is located in southwest China, covering an area of 485,000 square kilometers, and with a population of 94.5 million. Sichuan benifits from its geography and is endowed with rich natural resources such as hydro - power, minerals, plants and wild animals and tourist interest. With is unrivalled hydro - power resources, the province has a reserve of 140 million kw to be developed, ranking first place in China. Of its large varieties of minerals,132 have been verified. The reserves of 11 minerals including vanadium, titanium, lithium, silver and pyrite take the leading place in the country. One of China's three major forestry regions and five major pastoral areas, the province has one - third of higher plant species found in China and about 40% of the country's vertebrates. It is the native place of Giant Panda, the national treasure. There are 31 cities of cultural and historical interest of State and provincial levels, 53 tourist areas and scenic spots, and 307 historical and cultural sites under government protection. The picturesque Jiuzhaigou - HuangLong scenic spot has been listed as a world natural heritage and the Mt. Emei - Leshan Giant Stone Buddha Mitreya tourist area both as a world natural heritage and a human cultral heritage.
Railway plays major role in Sichuan's transport, while there are convenient highway and inland - water communications. The major railways are Chengu - Xi'an railway, the Chengdu - Chongqing railway the Chengdu - Kunming railway, and the Chengdu - Nanchong - Daxian railway, these railways connect moft of the major cities in Sichuan together, and have played a great role in the developement of local economy and prosperity. In the new century, the central government of China has initiated a grand project to banance the develipment of China's economy: Developing the west of China. Sichuan, located in the west, will surely benifit from it. |
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Qinghai and Tibet plateau, while the south area is northern section of Hengduan Mountain Ranges. Most of the rivers belong to the Yangtze River System. The Jinsha River runs across South Sichuan from southwest to northeast until Yibin and then changes into the name of the Yangtze. The Jaling River, Min River, Tuo River and Wujiang River flow into the Yangtze River from both south and north sides. The Sichuan Basin and West Sichuan have sub-tropical humid and sub-tropical highland climate respectively. Its main mineral deposits comprise iron, coal, natural gas, petroleum, well salt, asbestos, vanadium, titanium, phosphorus etc. It abounds in agricultural and water resources.
Sichuan's major industrial products are metals, coal, petroleum, machinery, electric power, chemicals, electronics, textiles, foodstuff etc. among which natural gas, salt, canned food, beverage, iron and steel, paper, fertilizer, alloyed iron, motor - cycles, power - generating equipments and others stand in the forefront either in production output or in value in China. Rice, wheat, cotton, rape seeds and raw silk are its principal farm produces. Sichuan is listed as one of China's primary producers in output of rice, wheat, oil - bearing crops, meat, and fruit, and also hold a significant place in production of tong oil, medicinal herbs, pigs and cattle.