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Ziyang Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Sichuan Province , In Chinese [资阳市]

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Administrative Division Code : 512000;
Post Code : 641300;
Phone Area Code :0832
The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 川M
The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 512000
Area Coverage: 7962 square kilometers;
Population : 4,870,000 persons;
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Current Weather of Ziyang:
The adminitrative division form of Ziyang is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have juridiction over some small cities in China.
Subdivisions Under the jurisdication of Ziyang Municipality
S/NFull NameIn Chinese In PinyinDivison type
1Yanjiang District雁江区Yanjiang QuDistrict
2Jianyang City简阳市Jianyang ShiCity
3Lezhi County乐至县Lezhi XianCounty
4Anyue County安岳县Anyue XianCounty
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Overview



Located in Sichuan Province, Ziyang is a city with rich travel resources. The Rock Carvings in Anyue County inheried the features of Dunhuang Grottes, Yungang Grottes, and Dragon Gate Grottos, inspired the construction of “ Dazu Rock Carvings”. There are over 100,000 carvings, Ziyang was honored “ The Land of Grotto Folk Art in China” by the Ministry of Culture.





Lezhi County is the hometown of Chenyi, the great revolutionist, strategiet and poet.The famous hometown of General Chenyi has attracted tourists around the world throughout the year.





Jianyang City, also called “The Back Garden of Chengdu ” has many senic spots, such as White Tower of Shengde Temple, Longquan Lake and Sancha Lake tourism zone, that is Longquan Lake, well-known senic spot of Sichuan Province─Sancha Lake. Yanjiang District of Ziyang City is the place where the fossil of the skull of “Ziyang” people was found, they lived during the end of the Paleolithic period.





These senic spots have formed the special feature of Ziyang tourism industry, that is “ a beautiful scenery of lakes, Hometown of the general and Anyue Grottos.”


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