Chengdu

Chengdu of China(Rong for Short), capital of Sichuan Province, is China's important industrial base, covering an area of 12,390 square kilometers and with a population of 9.4 million.

Chengdu City is mountainous in the north-west area, with plains in the south-east area, and low hills in-between. It has a sub-tropical climate with an annual average temperature of 16.2 degree Celsius, and rainfall of 1.000 millimeters, and a frost-free period of about 300 days. Its mineral deposits include coal, iron, talcum, pentine, dolomite etc. It abounds in agricultural resources.
Chengdu's main industries comprise machinery, chemicals, metallurgy, foodstuff, textiles, and especially measuring and cutting tools, airplanes, chemical equipment, analytical instruments, TV sets, computers, seamless-steel tubes, metal products, fertilizer, aluminum processing, electrical machines, wood-processing etc. which hold an important position in China.
Chengdu is a major production base in China for commodity grains, rape seeds, and pigs, and abundant in peanuts, sesame seeds, cotton, sugar-canes etc. Famed as ' Heavenly Land ', it has a rich supply of various products.
Chengdu is a railroad hub in South-west China, and has convenient highway and air transport as well It's also a famous Chinese historical and cultural city, endowed with unique natural conditions and beautiful environment. It has a pleasant climate, and exquisite lush mountains. Among its renowned scenic spots and historical sites are Marquis Wu Shrine, Thatched Cottage Du Fu, Dujiangyan Irrigation System.
Chengdu has embarked on the road of building itself into an international metropolis functioning primarily as the center, in South-West China, of science and technology, commerce, finance as well as communication and transport.
Nearby Chengdu City, there are numerous famous scenic spots including China World Heritages such as Jiuzhaigou etc. This is an ancient with a lot of tourist spots

Cuisine

Sichuan Cuisine is one of the Chinese four major cuisines and Chengdu dishes are its core and soul. Many Chinese historic men such as Zhugeliang in the Three Kingdoms Period, Zuo Si in the Western Jin Dynasty. Du fu in the Song Dynasty, Lu You in the Song Dynasty and Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, were full of praise to Sichuan cuisine and some ancient poets from Sichuan, such as Chang Qu, Libai, Sushi and Li Diaoyuan, wrote many poems to sing high praise of their hometown food. A lot of ancient books such as Lus Spring and Autumn Annals recorded the developing course of Sichuan cuisine. During the Southern Song and Northern Song Dynasty, Sichuan cuisine went beyond Sichuan and was popular all over the country. Today, Sichuan cuisine even crosses vast oceans and is abroad.
Sichuan dishes are based on rich products of Sichuan. Wide-ranging resources of raw materials from river to mountain and rich condiments are two important characteristics. For example, Sichuan chefs can cook edible wild herbs into delicacies with rich Sichuan condiments
Outstanding characteristics of Sichuan dishes lie in their color, smell, taste and shape, especially taste. Only in flavor, there are home taste, fish taste, litchi taste, salty&fresh taste, sweet& sour taste, ginger taste, piquant taste, onion-oil taste and mashed garlic taste. Moreover, peppery taste could be divided into such kinds as prickly&peppery, salty&peppery and slight peppery. Cooking methods have developed into roasting, stewing, frying etc. Sichuan dishes are cooked 'done' but not tough, tender but not raw, strong taste but not greasy, weak in taste but not tasteless. So, people praise Sichuan cuisine as ' one dish, one taste, hundred dishes, hundred tastes'.

1-Huiguo rou  2-Hot pot   3- Kung Pao chicken  4-Mapo doufu  5-Dandan noodles

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