Shenyang

Overview

Shenyang is the biggest center city in northeast China. It has within its jurisdiction 9 districts, 3 ounties, 1city and 5 development zones. Here live more than 40 nationalities such as the Han, the Man, the Korean, the Hui, the Xibo, the Mongolian and So on. Shenyang lies on the north bank of Hun River (called as shenshui in the ancient times)and So it gets its name. From 300 BC (12 years after the Zhao king of Yan kingdom got the power) when the Yan Kingdom dispatched General Qin kai to station troops here for border defence and the general founded Hou City till now, Shenyang has a history of mom than 2,300 years .Shenyang is frequently called as "the irthplace of one dynasty and the capital of two generations of kings". In 1625, the founder of he Qing Kingdom, Nurhaci, moved the capital here and changed he name into Shengjlng, In 1636, the son of Nurhaci changed the name of its kingdom into "Qing" and established the Qing Dynasty. In1644, when the Qing troops got across the Gate and made Beijmg as the capital, Shengjing was made as the sub-capital. In1657, Fenguan Fu (Government of office) was set. In 1945 when the anti-Japanese war was over, the city was changed into Shenyang . Shenyang is the well-known historical and cultural city of China and is one of the cities to be named as tourism city earliest. Now, there are more than 1,100 surface and underground culture...more

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