Longquanyi District () is a suburban district of the

City of Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; previously romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a population of 20,937,757 at the 2020 census, it is the fourth most p ...

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, China. Longquan District covers parts of the southeastern suburbs. In 1960, with the approval of the State Council, Chengdu Longquan Station District was officially established. In 2000, Longquanyi District was approved as a national economic and technological development zone, becoming an important economic center in the east of Chengdu. The population is over half a million. It borders the

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to the

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. Longquanyi has been designated as a high-tech development district, with investment mainly focused in the urban areas. Many hillsides that have been used to farm will be converted by the local government to forest areas, as the district finds tourism more profitable than trying to grow crops on mountainsides.

Administrative divisions

Longquanyi District administers 7 subdistricts and 3 towns: * Longquan Subdistrict (龙泉街道) * Damian Subdistrict (大面街道) * Shiling Subdistrict (十陵街道) * Tong'an Subdistrict (同安街道) * Xihe Subdistrict (西河街道) * Baihe Subdistrict (柏合街道) * Dong'an Subdistrict (东安街道) * Luodai Town (洛带镇) * Hong'an Town (洪安镇) * Shanquan Town (山泉镇)

Tourism

Longquanyi district is one of the most popular places to travel in

. There are many famous tourist attractions in Longquanyi District.There is a representative

Luodai Luodai is an ancient town in the Sichuan province in southwest China. It is located about 20 km from downtown Chengdu. It has about 23,000 inhabitants, of which about 20,000 are Hakka people. File:Luodai-03.jpg, Main street of Luodai ancie ...

town. Luodai Town is located in the eastern suburbs of

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

, north of Longquanyi District, known as the first Hakka ancient town in

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, and is also known as "the world's Luodai, the eternal

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". Luodai Town has a long

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, and according to legend, it became a street in the

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, named "Wanjing Street".

Climate

Education

Longquanyi district is to home to the "Golden Phoenix" project – where

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students get free housing, school uniforms and a food allowance, and attend an urban boarding school. As of November 2007, more than 3,000 students have already moved from their mountain villages to the city for their educations, almost two-thirds of them subsidized by the government. The district government has already spent 14.5 million yuan on the project, and will spend another 160 million. Forty-two percent of the district is located in the poor, mountainous parts of Sichuan province. In 2006, all middle schools and high schools located in the poor regions were closed down, and the students transferred to central, urban schools. Many of the students' parents moved to town as well, and took jobs in the city.

References

External links

Government website
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