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Some days you choose your activity for the day, which leaves you with a maximum amount of freedom and flexibility while exploring the beautiful Yunnan Province in South-West China. Yunnan tour at a budget price!
Discover one of the most beautiful and diverse provinces in China in a small group. The cost of the tour guide and bus is divided by the number of participants. So, the more participants, the more budget-friendly the trip will be! Ask us for the fixed deparure dates from Kunming. In the "Kingdom of Daughters" Map. Cultural Tours. Tour Map. Depending on your arrival time you make a first stroll through the Kunming Business District.
Jin Ma Bi Ji. Drive back to Kunming. Overnight accommodation is in Kunming, capital of the Yunnan Province.
Overnight accommodation takes place in Zhongdian. Continue to Lijiang. Check-in at your hotel right inside the old town of Lijiang. You stay overnight at a hotel near Lugu Lake. Drive to Lijiang. Check-in at your hotel in Lijiang.
In the afternoon visit Shibao Mountain. Overnight accommodation is at a traditional wooden Bai House with a years old history! Tour Gallery. Enter other…. First Name. Last Name. Outlying Islands U. If you select an approximate travel date, we can recommend seasonal travel highlights. I want to travel alone. More than seven. Which kind of hotels do you prefer? Preferred stars rating:. Would you like to include hikes? Yes, hiking for a maximum of 2 hours is fine Yes, hiking for more than 2 hours sounds great.
No, that's not for me. Age 20 - Yes, I would. No, I would not. More tours like this Travel along the ancient Tea and Horse Road. Read more about Along the Tea and Horse Road. The city's present Caotang "Grass Hall" was constructed in in honor of an earlier, more humble structure of that name erected by Du Fu in , the second year of his 4-year stay. Its King Mengchang beautified the city by ordering hibiscus to be planted upon the city walls.
The Song conquered the city in and used it for the introduction of the first widely used paper money in the world. Su Shi praised it as "the southwestern metropolis". Allegedly the Mongols called for the death of a million people in the city but the city's population had less than 30, residents not Chengdu prefecture.
The aged males who had not fled were killed while in typical fashion, the women, children and artisans were enslaved and deported. During the Yuan dynasty , most of Sichuan's residents were deported to Hunan during the insurgency of the western ethnic tribes of western Sichuan. Marco Polo visited Chengdu [25] [32] and wrote about the Anshun Bridge or an earlier version of it.
In any case, Chengdu was said to have become a virtual ghost town frequented by tigers [33] and the depopulation of Sichuan necessitated the resettlement of millions of people from other provinces during the Qing dynasty. Following the Columbian Exchange , the Chengdu Plain became one of China's principal sources of tobacco. Pi County was considered to have the highest quality in Sichuan, which was the center of the country's cigar and cigarette production, the rest of the country long continuing to consume snuff instead.
They brought with them into Sichuan business people, workers, and academics who founded many of the industries and cultural institutions which continue to make Chengdu an important cultural and commercial production center. Chengdu was beyond the reach of the Imperial Japanese ground forces and escort fighter planes. However, the Japanese frequently flew in the then-highly advanced twin-engine long-ranged G3M "Nell" medium bombers to conduct massive aerial bombardments of both civilian and military targets in Chongqing and Chengdu. President Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the defense of the city from Chengdu Central Military Academy until , when Communist forces took the city on December On 10 December the remnants of the Nationalist Chinese government evacuated to Taiwan.
The industrial base is very broad, including light and heavy manufacturing, aluminum smelting and chemicals. The textile industry remains important, with cotton and wool milling added to the traditional manufacturing of silk brocade and satin. Chengdu is the headquarters of the Chengdu Military Region. Until the end of the year , due to the revocation of military reform in Chengdu , the West Theater is founded and headquarters was stationed in Chengdu.
The Chengdu Tianfu District Great City is a sustainable planned city that will be outside of Central Chengdu, and is expected to be completely built later in the decade.
Recently [ when? Their current urban-planning focus in the city of Chengdu is to make the city 'a city within a park' rather than creating parks within a city. This transit system provides direct transport to Chengdu itself. The goal of the 'park city' project is to allow a city like Chengdu to compete with Beijing and Shanghai without stripping the city of its character.
However, this project is considered an urban renewal project, and to carry out this project, demolitions and forced evictions are occurring. The Great City fulfills the need for affordable housing as Chengdu carries out demolitions. The vast plain on which Chengdu is located has an elevation ranging from to metres 1, to 2, feet. The western mountainous area is also home to a large primitive forest with abundant biological resources and a giant panda habitat. East of Chengdu stands the low Longquan Mountains and the west bordering area of the hilly land of middle reaches of Min River , an area noted by several converging rivers.
Since ancient times, Chengdu has been known as "the Abundant Land" owing to its fertile soil, favorable climate, and novel Dujiangyan Irrigation System.
You'll meet people for our popular speed dating event at this very asian Clapham venue. Mangano, Hydrometallurgy , vol. It is believed that it was constructed during the East Han period and has appeared in written records since the Tang dynasty. By , those figures are expected to grow to 18 percent and 9 percent respectively. Robert Mundell and the celebrated Chinese economist, Li Yining, published by the State Information Center in , Chengdu has become an "engine" of the Western Development Program, a benchmark city for investment environment in inland China, and a major leader in new urbanization. It make the journey time from Chongzhou City to Sanhuan Road to less than half an hour.
Chengdu is located at the western edge of the Sichuan Basin and sits on the Chengdu Plain ; the dominating terrain is plains. It has four distinct seasons, with moderate rainfall concentrated mainly in the warmer months, and relieved from both sweltering summers and freezing winters. The Qin Mountains Qinling to the far north help shield the city from cold Siberian winds in the winter; because of this, the short winter is milder than in the Lower Yangtze. The hour daily mean temperature in January is 5.
The summer is hot and humid, but not to the extent of the " Three Furnaces " cities of Chongqing , Wuhan , and Nanjing , all of which lie in the Yangtze basin. Rainfall occurs most frequently and is concentrated in July and August, with very little of it in the cooler months. Chengdu also has one of the lowest annual sunshine totals nationally, with less sunshine annually than much of Northern Europe, and most days are overcast even if without rain.
This is especially so in the winter months, when it is nearly continuously grey, compounded by the poor air quality.
With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 16 percent in December to 38 percent in August, the city receives 1, hours of bright sunshine annually. Spring March—April tends to be sunnier and warmer in the day than autumn October—November. The annual mean is Chengdu is a sub-provincial city [61] which has served as the capital of Sichuan since Chongqing 's restoration to provincial status in As of July , the world's largest building in terms of floor area, the New Century Global Centre is located in the city.
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According to the census, the municipality had 14,, inhabitants, of whom 8,, reside in the city, considered as 11 urban and suburban administrative districts. The built-up or metro area was home to 10,, inhabitants including the 11 previous districts plus Guanghan City in Deyang and Xinjin County being urbanized quickly. The encompassing metropolitan area was estimated by the OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to have, as of [update] , a population of In , China Daily named Chengdu China's fourth-most-livable city. Some of China's most important literature comes from Chengdu.
The city has been home to literary giants, such as Sima Xiangru and Yang Xiong , two masters of Fu , a mixture of descriptive prose and verse during the Tang dynasty; Li Bai and Du Fu , the most eminent poets of the Tang and Song dynasties respectively; Yang Shen'an , a famous scholar of the Ming dynasty; and Guo Moruo and Ba Jin , two well-known modern writers.
Chang Qu , a historian of Chengdu during the Jin dynasty, compiled the earliest local historical records, the Record of Hua Yang State. Meng Chang , the king of Later Shu, wrote the first couplet for the Spring Festival, which says, "A harvest year accepts celebrations, good festivals foreshadow long springs. At that time, "Hanlin Painting Academy" was the earliest royal academy in China. Chengdu contains official, [70] Roman Catholic [71] and Protestant congregations, some of which are underground churches. In , the Methodist Missions of Canada was searching for more stations in Asia.
In February , Dr. During the meeting, it was proposed he lead this contingency; having built western hospitals, Boy's and Girl's schools at Missions he established on the Yangtze and Gan Rivers from — On 9 May Dr. Virgil Hart arrived in Chengtu and two weeks later bought a home and had it subdivided into living quarters and a dispensary, for the later arriving Missionary staff to move into.
On 24 June , the doors of Chengtu's first Protestant Mission Headquarters were opened with over one thousand people of the community attending. The first Methodist religious service was held the following Sunday with only several attendants. The first western dispensary in Sichuan was opened 3 November with sixteen patients seeking care.
The mission site became so popular that a larger space was secured near Chengtu's East Gate in the spring of This site is where the city's first Methodist church and hospital were built. These were later razed by rioting Chinese in and the Mission staff retreated to Chongqing and later Shanghai to escape the marauders. The mission compound was quickly rebuilt only to be destroyed once more in the riots of It was reopened as a Methodist church in the mids.
Over members of the church were arrested including the pastor and his wife. The church's kindergarten and theological college were raided and the church's media outlets were closed down.