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Geography of Liaoning Province |
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Liaoning Province is located in the south of the Northeast of China,
with the Liaohe River flowing through it, its northern and central parts
are plains; the eastern and western parts are hilly areas; and the
southern part covers the Liaodong Peninsula which borders on the Bohai
Sea in the west and Yellow Sea in the east. The four seasons are
distinctive in the Province, each being unique in its own way. The
population is 42 million (2022), consisting of some thirty nationalities such
as the
Manchu,
Mongolian,
Hui and
Korean nationalities.
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Climate of Liaoning Province |
Liaoning
Province has a temperate, continental-type monsoon climate, with the
mean temperature of the year being 6ºC
to 11ºC
(42.8 ºF to 51.8 ºF).
The minimum temperature in January, the coldest month, can be as low as
-30ºC
( -22 ºF)
while the maximum temperature can reach as high as 35ºC
( 95 ºF)
in July, the hottest month in the year. The frost-free period lasts 130
to 180 days averagely. The annual rainfall in Liaoning ranges from 400mm to 1000mm.
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Brief History of Liaoning Province |
The Province
of Liaoning has a long history behind it. As early as 1600 B.C, what is
the Province now was already part of the territory of the Shang Dynasty
(1766 B.C. to 1122 B.C.). In the various dynasties that followed,
administrative set-ups were established here, thus leaving many
historical relics for today. The Province is the birthplace of the
Manchu nationality, boating many well-preserved imperial palaces and
tombs built in the Manchu style in the early days of Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911).
Liaoning was once a colony of imperialism. From the late
19th century to the 1940s, Russian and Japanese aggressors
carried out frenzied wars here, plunging the Chinese people
into deep miseries. The imperialists exploited cheap labor.
And local industries had a very strong colonial nature, with
no processing capabilities at all. In the 1940's, amidst the
flames of Chinese people's struggle for national liberation,
imperialism was overthrown in the Northeast and Liaoning was
liberated. Now Liaoning Province has been turned into a centre of heavy industry with
metallurgy, machine-building, coal, electricity, petroleum and industry
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Liaoning Local Products |
Liaoning is richly-endowed and its products have rich local
characteristics. Ginseng, sable fur and furry antler, famed as the
"three great treasures of the Northeast", are important exports of the
Province. Other famous local specialities include tussah silk ( an ideal
material for blouse, shirt, skirt," kimono" dress, curtain, table-cloth,
quilt-cover, etc), apples (juicy and delicious, exported in quantities),
prawn, sea cucumbers and abalone (plentiful in the coastal areas). In
addition, local arts and crafts are also well-known, such as jade and
black amber carving, amber ornaments, glassware, and feather patchwork,
shell carving pictures, artistic
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Liaoning Local Food and Cuisine |
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The Lumingchun Restaurant in
Shenyang is noted for the high
quality of its Typical Local Food selected ingredients and the delicious
dishes which boast all the appealing colour, fragrance, taste, and
shape. The Restaurant is particularly good at the Shandong style dishes
as well as seafood dishes, such as stewed bear paw, peach like prawns,
etc.
At
Shenyang you can enjoy Imperial court dishes.
Delicious dumplings served at the Laobian Dumpling Restaurant in
Shenyang are a favorite with many tourists. Also a Chinese-style
sandwich with smoked meat and spring onions is a snack typical of the
North-eastern food. As
Dalian abounds in aquatic products, it is famous
with seafood delicacies. At the top of a long list of such delicacies
are: stewed dried scallop, steamed whitefish, roast prawns, steamed
abalones, etc. Other local representative dishes made of bear paw, moose
nose, and other delicacies are served in big Restaurants throughout the
Liaoning Province
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Places of Interests and Tourist Attractions in Liaoning |
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There are many places of historical interest and scenic spots in
Liaoning. The cities of
Shenyang,
Dalian, Anshan, Fushun, Jinzhou, Yingkou and Benxin are open to foreign tourists, each attracting tourists in its own way.
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The Imperial Palace in Shenyang
The Imperial Palace covers an area of over 60,000 square metres, with
some 300 rooms in 70 buildings which are dispersed in a dozen
courtyards. It is the best preserved group of imperial structures in the
country next to the Palace Museum in Beijing, Recalling the style and
lay-out of the latter, these buildings give expression to the brilliant
achievements in architecture scored by the Man and Han nationalities in
their cultural exchanges. There were altogether five imperial tombs in
the Qing dynasty. Two of them, the Eastern and Western Tombs are located
in Hebei Province while the other three -- the Yongling, Fuling and
Zhaoling Tombs are all located in Liaoning Province. Surrounded by
pines, the three tombs are rather impressive with their architecture
typical of the Man nationality style.
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The Qianshan (Thousand) Mountain
Situated not far from the suburbs of Anshan, it is a famous scenicspot in China, covering an area of 44 square kilometres with more than
180 places of interests and scenic spots. Peaks here rise one after
another, with the highest being more than 700 metres above sea level.
With totalling over 990, Qianshan is also called a Mountain of one
Thousand Lotuses". Here on the Qianshan Mountain, you can feast your
eyes on a variety of landscapes: the boundless sea of pines, elegant
peaks, peculiar rocks and ancient temples. Bordered by the sea on its
three sides, the City of Dalian is endowed with numerous beaches and a
long and winding coastline. Sun bathing is very popular in Dalian. Each
and every bathing beach boasts unique attraction. There are over a dozen
parks in the city, the well-known being the Starry Sea Park and the
Tiger Beach Park.
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Dalian Beach -
Lushuikou Scenic Spot: at the foot of hill and beside the sea.
Due to mild climate all year round, it is a tourist and summer
resort, famous for seaside park, and Laotieshan migratory birds
and Snake Island Nature reserve.
- Jinshitan
(Beach) National Tourist and Vacation Area: a national tourist
and vacation area developed in middle 1980's. The scenic spot
consists of sea, beach, reef and hills. Since there are many
multi-coloured stones on the beach, it is call the gold stone
beach (Jin Shi Tan in Chinese). Here your can enjoy many tourist
activities - boating, golfing, hunting, fishing. Very nice
tourist hotels are available. It will also be a comprehensive
seaside scenic spot for scientific survey, popular science
education, sightseeing, aquatic sports, vacation and recreation.
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