The location of Changchun on the map

The location of Changchun on the map is the geographical center of Northeast China.

Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province, is located in the northeast of China and the geographical center of the northeast, bordering Songyuan City, Siping City, Jilin City and Harbin City respectively. It is a famous old industrial base in China, the earliest automobile industrial base and film production base in New China, and is known as "Detroit in the East" and "Hollywood in the East".

At the same time, it is also the cradle of the development of rail cars, photoelectric technology, applied chemistry, biological products and other industries in New China, and the famous China FAW, changchun film studio, Changchun Bus Factory, Changchun Institute of Optics and Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun Huaying Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Changchun Institute of Biological Products were born.

Nicknamed Spring City, it was called Xi Du, Chachong and Huanglongfu in ancient times. It is a sub-provincial city, a central city of Northeast Asian economic circle, one of the central cities in Northeast China approved by the State Council, and an important industrial base with a total area of 20,565 square kilometers.

Most in Changchun:

1, the first city in Asia to fully popularize toilets and pipeline gas (1930 s).

2. The first city in Asia to realize the grounding of main road wires (1930' s).

3. The first city in China designed by foreign experts (Paris, Canberra).

4. Jilin No.1, the first commercial remote sensing satellite group independently developed by China.

5. The cradle of China automobile industry, China FAW built the first car in Changchun and the first car in New China.

6. The cradle of China's railway passenger cars, Changchun Bus Factory manufactured the first railway passenger car, the first tram, the first subway train and the first maglev train in New China (experiment); Changchun Bus Factory is the largest R&D, railway passenger cars and urban rail vehicles manufacturing and exporting base in China, and also the largest rail vehicle manufacturer in the world.

The above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Changchun City