This driving tour is my ultimate edition of Changsha driving.

Hope you can see my love to this city.

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Changsha is rich in tourist resources because of its unique geographical location.

Surrounding the city are the beautiful Yuelu Mountain Dawei Mountain and Weishan Mountainand the Xiangjiang River and Liuyang River flow across it.

The Juzizhou scenic spot in the city is regarded as one of the eight most charming places in Hunan attracting both domestic and overseas visitors.

The rapid social and economic development in Changsha has laid the foundation for the local tourism boom.

In 1998 the city realized 54.285 billion yuan of GNP which meant it had reached its strategic goal ahead of schedule and that local residents enjoy a higher standard of living.

Changsha is also among the 50 top Chinese cities in terms of general economic strength.

Being the political economic scientific and technological educational cultural and transportation center in Hunan, Changsha is quite a large place occupying land of 11800 sq.km.

With a population of 10 million.

Changsha is among the first group of Chinese cities which were selected as famous historical and cultural cities in the country and allowed to open-up to the outside world.

Thus it has become an important city in central China enjoying the fastest economic growth and immense vitality.
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Now we have a one-day trip for you.

In the morning we'll start our trip at Huangxing Road Walking Street which is in the downtown area.

At that place you can buy different kinds of clothes and eat many delicious foods. Next we'll visit Hunan First Normal College which Chairman Mao once studied in. There are so many things which Chairman Mao had used on show.

And Chairman Mao's classroom and dormitory still remain intact.Maybe you can know something about Chairman Mao's life. At noon we'll take awalk along Xiangjiang River in order to enjoy our beautiful nature.

In the afternoon we plan to climb Yuelu Mountain. There are various kinds of trees flowers and birds on the mountain.

The scenery on the top is beyond destination. In the evening we will end our trip at Juzizhou Park. There we can enjoy the beautiful fountains with colorful lights and a firecracker show.The view is so marvelous that you can't miss.

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Changsha was rebuilt after 1949, and its population nearly tripled between the late 1940s and the early 1980s and essentially doubled again in the succeeding two decades.

The city is now a major port, handling rice, cotton, timber, and livestock, and is also a collection and distribution point on the railway from Hankou to Guangzhou.

It is a center of rice milling and has oil-extraction, tea- and tobacco-curing, and meat-processing plants. Its textile industry produces cotton yarn and fabrics and engages in dyeing and printing. Agricultural chemicals and fertilizers, farm implements, and pumping machinery are also produced.

Changsha has a large thermal generating station linked by a power grid with the nearby industrial centres of Zhuzhou and Xiangtan; the three cities were designated in the 1970s as the nucleus of a major industrial complex.

In the 1960s there was some development of heavy industry. The manufacture of machinery, especially machine tools and precision tools, became important, and Changsha emerged as a centre of China’s aluminum industry.

The city also has cement, rubber, ceramic, and papermaking plants and is known for many types of traditional handicrafts, producing Hunan embroidery, leather goods, umbrellas, and buttons. Coal is mined in the vicinity.
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Changsha was the seat of many ancient schools and academies.

It is the site of Hunan Medical University (1914) and has several colleges and institutes of higher learning. The Hunan Provincial Museum houses artifacts from the many ancient tombs in the vicinity, including the well-known Changsha Mawangdui Tomb of the Hsi (Western) Han period (206 BCE–25 CE), discovered in the 1970s. Among the many renowned scenic spots in the vicinity are Orange Isle (Juzi Zhou) in the Xiang River and the Yuele Hills on the river’s western bank.

Changsha Local Products:
Hunan (Xiang) Embroidery.
chrysanthemum Stone Carving.
Tongguan pottery.
Hunan Bean Noodle.
Changsha Cake.
Changsha famous tea.
Liuyang Fireworks.
Liuyang Fermented Soybeans.


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