Located in Southern Anhui Province , Huangshan is known as a world famous tourist city. It has jurisdiction over three districts, four counties and Huangshan Scenic Zone. With the beautiful landscapes and many relics, Huangshan is the cradle of the Hui School and one of the three locality studies in China.
Huangshan city boasts two world heritages sites, Mt.Huangshan and the ancient villages of Xidi and Hongcun. You can visit not only the beautiful Mt.Huangshan, but also the well-preserved ancient houses, memorial archways, shrines, bridges and streets.
Huangshan City is also a region with time-honored history and splendid cultures. Shexian and Yixian Counties were established more than 2,000 years ago. In the Jin Dynasty ( 265 A.D. -420 A.D.) Huangshan City was called Xin' an Shire. In the Song Dynasty ( 960 A.D. -1279 A.D.), the name was changed into Huizhou, the city was famed for its affluent Hui merchants, Xin'an School of painting and carvings, Xin'an traditional medicine, Hui ancient architecture, Hui Cuisine, and Huangmei Opera.
Area : Huangshan has an area of 9,823 sqare kilometers.
Population : Huangshan has a population of 1.5 million.
Transportation : Huangshan Airport is situated in the west suburb of Tunxi of Huangshan city, 71 kilometers from Mt. Huangshan scenic area. It covers an area of 75 hectares with runways 2,200 meters long and 45 meters wide. Nowadays, it is up to the state second-class airport standard, competent for taking-off and landing for medium airliners like Boeing 737. So far, there are 21 air routes linking up Huangshan and Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Hefei, etc. There are charter flights between Huangshan and Hong Kong. The year 2005 also witnessed for the first time charter flights between Huangshan and South Korea.
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