Tongchuan

2021-08-27 15:35:00 , Source : The Government Website of Shaanxi Province

Official Website: http://www.tongchuan.gov.cn

Tongchuan is a prefecture-level city located at the junction of central Shaanxi Province, Guanzhong Basin and Northern Shaanxi Plateau. It has under its jurisdiction of one county, three districts, one provincial-levelled economic and technology development district—Tongchuan New District, and eight municipal industrial parks. The city covers an area of 3881.1 km². As of November, 2020, the population of permanent residents in Tongchuan City was 698,322.In 2020, Tongchuan City achieved a regional GDP of 38.175 billion yuan, an increase of 5.0% over 2019.

Transportation

With only 68 km to the ancient capital city of Xi’an and to Xianyang International Airport, Tongchuan has a very convenient position in transportation with Xi’an--Tongchuan and Tongchuan---Huangling highways running through the city and two railways of Xi’an--Tongchuan and Meiqi connected with the main railways of Longhai and Lanxin.

Resources

The development of the city has been mainly based on coal and minerals. Its industrial development started early, making it one of the first industrial cities upon the founding of New China. It is an important energy and building material base in Shaanxi and Northwestern China. The coal reserve reaches 2.9 billion tons, and there are also large reserves of limestone, ceramics, clay, cement ingredients, and loess, which are easy to extract. Resources such as petroleum, wind power, and oil shale are also abundant. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the city has contributed more than 700 million tons of coal and more than 300 million tons of cement to the country.

Industries

Tongchuan’s main industries are coal, building materials, machinery, textile and chemical and aluminium industry. Pottery and porcelain, with Yaozhou Kiln products are particularly well known. Tongchuan also produces medicines and food products. Farm products include apples, hot peppers, Chinese prickly ash, garlic, flue-cured tobacco, walnuts and precious Chinese medicine herbs. Apple wine, apple vinegar, apple soft drink which are made of apples and processing products of hot pepper, walnut etc. are well known in China and are exported to Southeast Asia.

Featured Historical Figures

There were many famous figures in Tongchuan history. The most famous one is Sun Simiao, a medical expert in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907) famed as king of medicine. His former residence in Yaowang Mountain has become a hot tourist attraction where tourists can see ancient buildings and large-scale murals of the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368) as well as learn about the culture of traditional Chinese medicine. Li Yuan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, and his son Li Shimin once commanded to build a palace in Yuhua Mountain to avoid the summer heat.


Tourism

With a long history, there are many scenic spots and historical sites in Tongchuan. Being the hometown of Sun Simiao—a great doctor and Liu Gongquan—a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, Linghu Defen—a great historian and Fankuan—a famous painter of the Song Dynasty and with many cultural landscapes known at home and abroad, such as the historical site of Yaozhou kiln—the biggest underground pottery and porcelain museum, the Remains of Yuhua Palace—once a summer palace during the Tang Dynasty for emperors Gaozu and Taizong and later a chamber where the eminent monk Master Xuanzang had translated the Buddhist scriptures and passed away, Yaowang Hill where the great doctor Sun Simiao—King of medicine, who studied and practiced medicines, XiangshanTemple—one of the well know Buddhism temple in China and Xuejiazhai site—a revolutionary base in Zhaojin near the borders of Shaanxi and Gansu province, Tongchuan has become the main city in the northern travel line of Shaanxi Province.


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