Brief introduction of xi 'an city

Xian, also called changan, nickname "FengCheng", "r" and "west", "pick" for short, with the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Rome, Athens and said the world four big famous historical and cultural city (also known as the world's four big ancient capital of civilization), is built by king wen of zhou, built in the 12th century BC, more than 3100 years of uninterrupted history of city, in shiji is known as the "jincheng, land of abundance", and xi 'an yanliang itself is, oak Yang, the Chinese famous ancient capital.Former name: in xian feng jing, picks Beijing, FengGao, xianyang, changan, Chang An, JingZhao, daxing, yongxing, in yuan, xiking, "chang 'an" in the most common and famous.Xi 'an is the capital of shaanxi province in the People's Republic of China, one of 15 deputy provincial cities in China, one of the seven big regional central city in China, industrial and commercial center in northwest China, new Eurasia land bridge section of one of the biggest urban centres in China.The national health city, China excellent tourism city.Xi 'an is China's central and western regions of the largest and most important scientific research, higher education, national defense science, technology and industry and high-tech industry base, China's important center of machinery manufacturing and textile industry center, the main electronic information industry base in China, as the most important weapon manufactured, the core of the aviation and aerospace industry base in China.Has a strong industrial base, is China's most powerful central west science and technology, the most complete industrial categories of super large urban centres.
Xi 'an is located in north latitude 34 degrees online, this is equivalent to the eastern jiangsu lianyungang, geographical north-south border region in China, sitting on qinling mountains.In xian, north step is the Yellow River basin, the step is the Yangtze river to the south, a unique geographical location, is unique in the metropolis in the country.
Therefore, xi 'an in the north with the warm climate, annual average temperature 13.6 degrees, and the south most by 14.1 degrees north of the city of nanjing.Xi 'an temperatures in difference in temperature is 26 degrees, there are four provincial capital cities in China temperature in difference in temperature is 26 degrees, xian, Shanghai, nanjing, hefei, hangzhou is 24 degrees, Beijing is 30 degrees), in general the smaller the poor in the south city.
Xi 'an comprises nine municipal districts and four counties.The municipal people's government is located in xi 'an north gate no. 159, the new is not ended FengCheng eight-channel area economic and technological development zone.Districts with a total area of 9983 square kilometers, including urban area of 1066 square kilometers, built the city covers an area of 375 square kilometers (2008).Permanent population 8.3752 million (by the end of 2008), the urban population more than 570, the city's population was about 5.1 million.
Big xian city circle at the core of the guanzhong urban agglomeration engine, also includes the xianyang downtown (qindu, wei city), xingping, wu gong county, qian county, liquan, jingyang county, sanyuan county a total area of the city counties.Yangling agricultural high-tech industries demonstration zone (land) Yang area;With 13 districts and counties under the jurisdiction of xi "an, a total of 22 administrative region (the twelve districts, a county-level city, nine counties), a total area of 14985 square kilometers and a total population of more than 12 million.