What cities are there in Sichuan Province?

As of August 2019, Sichuan Province currently governs 18 prefecture-level cities and 3 autonomous prefectures, with 54 municipal districts, 18 county-level cities, 107 counties, and 4 autonomous counties.

Prefecture-level cities: Chengdu City (the administrative level is sub-provincial level), Zigong City, Panzhihua City, Luzhou City, Deyang City, Mianyang City, Guangyuan City, Suining City, Neijiang City, Leshan City, Nanchong City, Meishan City, Yibin City, Guang'an City, Dazhou City, Ya'an City, Bazhong City, and Ziyang City.

Autonomous prefectures: Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.

Sichuan Province covers an area of ??486,000 square kilometers, ranking fifth in the country. Among the cities (prefectures), the largest area is Garze Prefecture, with an area of ??153,000 square kilometers; the smallest is Zigong City, with an area of ??4,000 square kilometers. The three prefectures of Garze, Aba and Liangshan have a total area of ??297,000 square kilometers, accounting for 61% of the province.

Part of the city overview

1. Chengdu: the capital of Sichuan Province, a sub-provincial city, and a national historical and cultural city. It is also the "science and technology center, business center, financial center and transportation and communication hub of the southwest region" determined by the State Council's plan and an important central city in the southwest region.

Located in the middle of the Chengdu Plain, it is the national urban-rural comprehensive supporting reform pilot zone and is the intersection of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, Baocheng-Chengdu Railway, Chengdu-Kunming Railway and Dacheng Railway. Chengdu's industries are mainly electronics, food, machinery, light industry, and military industry; Shu embroidery, Shu brocade, and lacquerware are famous local handicrafts. Chengdu is world-famous for its “laid-backness”.

2. Mianyang City: An important national defense scientific research and electronics industry production base. It has won the United Nations Best Example Award for Improving the Living Environment and is the only "Science and Technology City" approved for construction in China. China's nuclear weapons research base, the China Institute of Engineering Physics, is located in the city.

3. Zigong City: a national historical and cultural city, a central city in southern Sichuan, and a national high-tech development zone. It is known as the "Millennium Salt City" for its rich well salt production.

A long-established industrial town, focusing on chemicals, machinery, textiles, and new materials. It is a World Geopark rated by the United Nations and preserves the most abundant and complete dinosaur fossils and geological relics in the world. It is a veritable "Jurassic Park" and "Hometown of Dinosaurs". It is also known as the "Lighting City of the South" because of its famous lantern festival at home and abroad.

4. Panzhihua City: An important industrial town, located near the confluence of the Yalong River and the Yangtze River. It has abundant iron ore reserves and is the most important steel production base in southwest China. It is known as the "Southwestern Steel Capital" , "the capital of vanadium and titanium", as well as chemical, machinery and other industries.

5. Luzhou City: a national historical and cultural city, the central city in southern Sichuan. It has been known as "Iron-Strengthened Luzhou" and "The Important Meeting of the Southwest" since ancient times. It is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and Tuojiang River, and is known as "Luzhou Laojiao" , "Langjiu" is a famous liquor brand in China, and Luzhou has a large-scale natural gas field. Luzhou is also an important shipping port on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, an important aviation port in Sichuan and a railway transportation hub in Sichuan, and is known as the "Chinese Wine City".

6. Leshan City: A national historical and cultural city located at the intersection of the Minjiang River and the Dadu River. The Leshan Giant Buddha within the territory is the largest Buddha statue in the world. It is rich in coal and iron ore and has industries such as machinery, coal mining, hydropower, and textiles.

7. Neijiang City: Located on the banks of the Tuojiang River, it is a transportation hub for the Chengdu-Chongqing and Neijiang-Kunming railways. Before the 1990s, it was the sugar industry center of Sichuan Province and was known as the "Sweet City". Nowadays, the metallurgical and machinery industries are relatively developed.

8. Deyang City: Located halfway between Chengdu and Mianyang, it is a famous historical and cultural city with Sanxingdui culture, Confucius culture, Three Kingdoms culture, etc. At the same time, it is the "Granary of Tianfu" and the "Heavy Equipment Capital of China" with developed heavy industry.

9. Ya'an City: With a history of more than 2,000 years, it was the capital of Xikang Province in the early years of the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, and was merged into Sichuan Province in 1954. Ya'an is located in the Dadu River Basin and is rich in water conservancy resources. It is famous for its "Sanya" of Yayu, Yayu and Yanu.

10. Nanchong City: an important regional central city in northeastern Sichuan, an outstanding tourist city in China, and the only Chinese silk capital in the west. Located in the middle reaches of the Jialing River, at the intersection of the Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway and the Dacheng Railway, it is a water, land and air transportation hub, a trade and logistics base, and an economic and financial center in northeastern Sichuan. The pillar industries are agriculture, petrochemicals, auto parts, textiles, and food processing. It is famous for its oil, cocoons, silk industry and agriculture, and export of bristles.

11. Guang'an City: A newly emerging city, located on the banks of the Qujiang River. It is the hometown of Deng Xiaoping, the founder and founder of China's reform and opening up, modern economic theory and one country, two systems. It has coal mining, natural gas and coal electricity. and other industries.

12. Yibin City: It is located at the confluence of Jinsha River and Minjiang River. Because the Jinsha River from the east of Yibin is called the "Yangtze River", Yibin is also called "The First City on the Yangtze River". Yibin is an important liquor brewing center in Sichuan and is known as the "Liquor Capital". The famous liquor "Wuliangye" is located in Yibin.

13. Xichang City (county level): The capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Xichang Satellite Launch Center is one of the three major satellite launch bases in China. Xichang City is known as China's "Space City".

14. Suining City: Located in the middle of the Sichuan Basin, it is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, China. It borders Nanchong to the east, Deyang to the west, Chongqing and Ziyang to the south, and Mianyang to the north. It covers an area of ??5323.85 square kilometers and is the famous hometown of Guanyin culture in China.

It has been awarded the title of "Global Green City" by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, a Seven-Star City for Chinese Urban Charity, a National Ecological Demonstration Zone, the Home of Folk Art, the Home of Poetry and Wine, and the Home of Calligraphy.

15. Ziyang City: Agriculture is developed and it is an important pork and peanut production area in the province.

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Location

Sichuan Province is located in the southwest hinterland of China, between 97°21'~108°33' east longitude and 26°03' north latitude ~34°19', located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with an area of ??486,000 square kilometers, ranking fifth in China. It is 1,075 kilometers long from east to west and 921 kilometers wide from north to south. The time difference between the east and west borders is 51 minutes.

It borders 7 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai to the north, Yunnan and Guizhou to the south, Chongqing to the east, and Tibet to the west. It is an important intersection and transportation corridor that connects South China and Central China, connects the southwest and northwest, and connects Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Population

In 2019, the number of births in Sichuan Province was 894,000, with a birth rate of 10.70‰; the number of deaths was 593,000, with a mortality rate of 7.09‰; and the natural population growth rate was 3.61‰. The permanent population at the end of the year was 83.75 million, an increase of 340,000 from the end of the previous year, of which 45.049 million were urban residents and 38.701 million were rural residents.

The urbanization rate of the permanent population was 53.79%, an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the end of the previous year. ?

Ethnicities

Sichuan Province is a multi-ethnic area with 56 ethnic groups. Han, Yi, Tibetan, Qiang, Miao, Tujia, Lisu, Naxi, Buyi, Bai, Zhuang and Dai are the long-standing ethnic groups in the province.