Discovering Chengdu
Thousands of years ago, a king of the ancient Shu Kingdom esta-blished his capital in the center of Sichuan plain and named it Ch-engdu. Nowadays, Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province, wh-ich is 1.24 thousand square kilometers in size and has a populati-on of 11 million. It’s the technological, commercial, trading, finan-cial and transportation center. Chengdu is described as “Ancient Shu Culture”, “Sichuan Scenery”, “Culture of Three Kingdoms”, “Panda Protection”, “Chengdu Delicacies” by visitors from all over the world.
Chengdu is one of the Top Tourist Cities in china, and it was awar-ded one of the Most Attractive Tourist Cities in China, 2006. At present, it has many places of interests, including World Heritages, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units and State Key Cultural Relics Protection Units.
