Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province and an important industrial, commercial and financial city in southwestern China.
Located in one if the countrys richest agricultural plains,Chengdu has 12,. By rail,Chengdu is 2,048 km from Beijing and slightly over 2 hours by air of Beijing. Itcan also be reached by a less than 20 hours train rides with about 250 Km of tunnels. Chengdu has direct domestic and interna flights from elsewhere in China,Hong Kong and some neibouring countries. With an altitude of 500 meters, it has a temperate climate and abudant rainfall in summer. The population of Chengdu is about 9.60 million-divided among 8 districts,4 outlyihg cities and 8 counties. About 1.4 million people reside in the city center.
Chengdu has a history of over 20xx years. century BC,the king of Shu moved his capital to this first Chengdu Was only a county center. The second year it turnek into a developed so fast that the city received the name:Chengdu,which literally meant "becoming a capital". During the Western Han Dynasty（206BC~23AD）,the brocade weaving and trade brought so much prosperity to the local area that the government set up a special office in the Southwest of the city to manage brocade weaving and trade business city became Known as Jincheng（the Brocade City）her mane was given to Chengdu duringthe five Dynasties Period（907-960）when Meng Chang（孟昶）,emperor of the Later Shu State was in power emperor loved hibiscus very much ,and he had those flowers planted atop the city hibiscus in blossom made chengdu colorful for miles around Chengdu had another name called Furong Cheng（the Hibiscus City）.
Dated back to the Qin and Han Dynasties,Chengdu was alresdy one of the five top industrial du was already one of the five top industrial and commercial theTang Dynasty Chengdu was as prosperous as Yangzhou（扬州）,a big city located in the south of China. In the Nouthern Song veloped with several huge markets inside the gdu even had night markets and particular centers ,which had exclusive sales of certain commodities.
Traditionally Chengdu has long been well-known for its many crafts:embroidery,lacquer ware,silver artistry ,pottery,bamboo ware,silk weaving,cade are regarded as one of the top four fine silks in the Du Fu Cottage is a famous embroidery factory where skilled workers stitch out with their meedles silk elegant designs are perfect to view from both sides of the some other workshops,artisans at work carve intricate and elaborate objects of ivory and jade ,design precious silver articles,and weave bamboo into useful and beautiful pieces e workshops are nowadays a part of the tourist circuit as China opens up to the outside world.
Chengdu was one of the birthplaces of the an-Weng（文翁）,head of the prefecture of Shu started centuries saw the cultural development by contribuXiangru（司马相如），Li Bai,Su Shi（苏轼）who them and in return their excellent literature works enabled the local culture to advance.
Chengdu is pleasantly laid out with broad streets and many public parks vey,some older parts of the city still have marrow streets and sculptured wooden gdu has many places of interests to see highlights for visitors are DuFus Thatched Cottage,the temple of Marquis wu,Dujiang lrrigation Project and Precious Light des,local restaurants serve sichuan cuisine,which is as famous as Cantonese food all of the Sichuan food is spicy-hot er pedals and herbs are used in such specialties as "fired lotus flower","governors chicken"and "smoked duck with tea fragrance".
Chengdu is advancing in all fields attracts friends and visitors both at home and abroad.