Nanning

The city of Nanning is located in the southwest of the province, covering an area of 22, 100 sq km, and consisting of six counties and six districts. It has a population of 6.91 million. Among the first group of Excellent Tourist Cities of China, Nanning is known asgreen city, and has won such honors as National Civilized City, National Garden City and the UN-Habitat Awar.

Nanning has a history of over 1, 690 years, having been chosen as the seat of Jinxing Prefecture in 318 Eastern Jin Dynasty After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Nanning achieved city status in January 1950, and was made provincial capital when the People’s Government of Guangxi Province was established on February 8 of the same year. When Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was established in March 1958, Nanning became its capital city, as well as the political, economic and cultural heart of the region.

Nanning’s eight major industries are farm product processing, machinery equipment manufacture, aluminum processing, biopharmaceuticals, electronic information, chemicals, buildin and papermaking. With its sights on international city status and being the best place in Guangxi, Nanning is working hard to develop as a processing manufacturing ness and trade base for China and ASEAN, as an international hub of commu ations and information and as a financial center.

Nanning is situated at the ntersection of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, the Pan-Pearl- River Delta Economic Zone and Nanning-Guiyang Economic Belt, where the economic circles of south China, southwest China and ASEAN, it is the most convenient maritime access point in southwest China. highways and airlines serving nearby provinces. Nanning is an the ASEAN nations and China, with many international airlines serving major ASEA, and highways leading to major Vietnamese cities such as Hanoi.itis the second ernational train terminal.

The South Guangxi Tourist Zone centered around Nanning is one of the four tourist zones angxi, featuring southern beauty cultures and customs of the ethnic minorities. The top 10 landscapes, namely the old town of Yangmei, the pagoda on Mt. Qingxiu, the virgin and rain forests of Mt. Daming, the ancient site of Wangxian Slope, the Yiling Grotto, Jiulong Waterfall Forest Park, the beautiful Nanhu Lake, Mt. Longhu Nature Reserve monkey habitat, the green Liangfeng River National Forest Park and Yongjiang River in spring, represent the many types of scenic spots in Nanning.

Over 40 kinds of subtropical fruits including banana, lychees and longans; cane sugar, alcohol, Zhuang brocade and colored silk balls.

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