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Huaihua City
2022-05-25
Huaihua is the largest prefecture-level city in Hunan and a national comprehensive transportation hub. It has won many titles like New Energy Model City and One of the National Top 10 Eco-civilized Cities.
Huaihua boasts its splendid history and profound culture. For example, China’s ancestor of Emperor Yan lit the fire of rice civilization. The Gaomiao Ruins Site also witnessed the early Chinese civilization. The Longxing Temple built in the Tang Dynasty is the oldest academy in the world. The Hongjiang ancient commercial city, which was emerged in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is known as “the first ancient commercial city in China”. What’s more, Huaihua is where the Chinese Red Army went northward on the Long March and it witnessed China’s victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. It is also the birthplace of hybrid rice in the world.
Huaihua has abundant customs. In this area of 27,600 square kilometers, 51 ethnic groups live in harmony with each other. It is the largest residence of the Dong ethnic group in China. Here are China’s largest primitive terraces, pure and moving Dong’s songs and chants, as well as cheerful and wonderful Dong’s family banquets and Miao’s leading banquets.
Huaihua has continuous mountains and rivers, with a forest coverage rate of 70.83%. It is one of the most ecologically sound areas in the same latitude on the earth, one of China’s nine ecologically sound areas, and the first national ecological demonstration city in Hunan Province. It is also renowned as “a breathing city” for more than 30 virgin forests, 27 national and provincial nature reserves, scenic spots, geological parks and forest parks, and 34 national 3A scenic spots.
Huaihua is rich in natural resources. It is known as the hometown of woods, fruits and medicinal materials. It is also a significant base for energy, metal and non-metal minerals in Western Hunan.
Huaihua, with convenient transportation and superior location, has been known as the “bridgehead” from Central and East China to the Southwest. It has now become a distribution center for the materials and products from Southwest China and a medium-sized regional city around Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou and Guangxi.
Huaihua boasts its splendid history and profound culture. For example, China’s ancestor of Emperor Yan lit the fire of rice civilization. The Gaomiao Ruins Site also witnessed the early Chinese civilization. The Longxing Temple built in the Tang Dynasty is the oldest academy in the world. The Hongjiang ancient commercial city, which was emerged in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is known as “the first ancient commercial city in China”. What’s more, Huaihua is where the Chinese Red Army went northward on the Long March and it witnessed China’s victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. It is also the birthplace of hybrid rice in the world.
Huaihua has abundant customs. In this area of 27,600 square kilometers, 51 ethnic groups live in harmony with each other. It is the largest residence of the Dong ethnic group in China. Here are China’s largest primitive terraces, pure and moving Dong’s songs and chants, as well as cheerful and wonderful Dong’s family banquets and Miao’s leading banquets.
Huaihua has continuous mountains and rivers, with a forest coverage rate of 70.83%. It is one of the most ecologically sound areas in the same latitude on the earth, one of China’s nine ecologically sound areas, and the first national ecological demonstration city in Hunan Province. It is also renowned as “a breathing city” for more than 30 virgin forests, 27 national and provincial nature reserves, scenic spots, geological parks and forest parks, and 34 national 3A scenic spots.
Huaihua is rich in natural resources. It is known as the hometown of woods, fruits and medicinal materials. It is also a significant base for energy, metal and non-metal minerals in Western Hunan.
