Sichuan Province, located in southwest China, with the population of with 87 million people, it is the largest population in China.Sichuan is one of the largest and most inaccessible provinces in the nation. This province covers an area of 485,000 kilometers (187,000 miles).Click here for Sichuan Introduction Picture of Sichuan Jiuzhaiguo
The major cities of Sichuan : Chengdu , Leshan , Jiuzhaigou .

Sichuan Highlights - Tourist Attractions of Sichuan.

Chengdu is also home to the Chengdu Giant Panda Research Base , one of the most important centers in the world for the captive conservation of the Giant Panda. The Research Centre has evolved into China Panda City. Panda City encompasses a museum, as well as the Chengdu Zoo.

Sichuan is known as the ‘Land of Abundance’ and has three places on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List: Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, Huang Long Valley (Yellow Dragon Valley) and Mount Emeishan including Leshan Giant Buddha . Visitors to this province can experience a wide variety of beautiful landscapes including plateaus, mountains, ravines, basins, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, hot springs,
waterfalls and limestone caves. In addition, tourists can visit important historic relics and taste the delicious spicy Sichuan Cuisine .

Sichuan Transportation - Getting to Sichuan and moving around.

By Air:Headquarter of Southwest Airlines is in Chengdu ,He has 102 routes, of which 96 domestic routes, international and regional charter routes 6, to the southwest of the center of radiation throughout the country, connecting Bangkok and Hong Kong. Chengdu-Beijing route (span 1,700 km), is one of the domestic main trunk. In addition, the Chengdu-Shanghai (span 782 km), Chengdu-Guangzhou (span 1493 km) all are important aviation lines.Airports of Yibin, Xichang, Luzhou have several domestic routes.

By Train :There are five main railway lines as Baocheng ,Chengyu, Chengkun, NeiKun.Sanwan, Xiaoli, Ziwei,Chengwen,Detian ,Guangyue , Panzhihua,Guangwang are 9 sub railway.

By Sea :Sichuan is one of the country’s water transport developed provinces, the Yangtze River Trans - is waterborne transport route, and with Minjiang River and Jinsha River, extension communication in the form of a natural waterway transport networks. In the province there are 19 municipalities and over 120 counties and over 1,400 villages can have water contact.

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Sichuan Ethnic Groups

As one of the largest provinces, Sichuan has more than 15 minority ethnic groups living side by side with the Han people. Among these are the Yi, Hui, Quian, Tibetan and Miao people….
The Best time to visit of SichuanSichuan is bordered by the Tibetan Plateau in the west and by the Three Gorges and the Yangtze River in the east. The eastern part of the Sichuan basin is ringed by lofty mountains and experiences a subtropical and humid climate. The western part is considered the highland area and experiences frequent fog with intense sunlight, but low temperatures. The annual rainfall in this province is 1000 millimeters and the average annual temperature is 16.5′C.

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