Xichang is the county-level city and capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, which was called Du Qiong and Jianchang in ancient times. It is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province, in the Anning River Basin. It is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of Panxi, an important town of the ancient "Southern Silk Road", and is known as the "key of Sichuan and Yunnan".
The climate belongs to the tropical plateau monsoon climate zone, rich in light and heat resources, warm in winter and cool in summer, with four seasons like spring; It is called Moon City, Sun City, Space City and Xiao Chun, and it is a city that lives in spring. It has a total area of 2,882.9 square kilometers, with a permanent population of 963,000 at the end of 2002/kloc-0. By the end of 2022, it has jurisdiction over 7 streets, 1 1 town, 5 townships and 2 ethnic autonomous townships. The municipal government is located atNo. 12, Dashuijing Ancient Buildings Ancient Architecture Complex, Xichang City.
Xichang area, Jianchang House in Tang Dynasty, Jianchang Road in Yuan Dynasty, Xichang County in Wei Dynasty and Yongzheng Year of Qing Dynasty. Because the city is in the west of Jianchang old city in Tang Dynasty, it is named "Xichang". 1935, the Central Red Army crossed Liangshan and held a meeting in Lizhou, and put forward the word "Long March" for the first time. 1950, Xichang was liberated and Xichang Special Zone in Xikang Province was established. 1955 Xikang Province was abolished and Xichang Special Zone was transferred to Sichuan Province.
Xichang is a national grain county, a national pig county, a hometown of onions in China, a hometown of flowers and trees in China, and a hometown of winter strawberries in China. It has successively won the National Forest City, National Health City, China Excellent Tourism City, China Top Five Most Beautiful Healthy Human Settlements, Top 100 Counties with Comprehensive Strength, Top 100 Counties with New Urbanization Quality in China, and Top 0/00 Comprehensive Well-off Index of County-level Cities in China.
Climate types and characteristics of Xichang;
Xichang belongs to the tropical plateau monsoon climate zone, known as the small "spring city", which is warm in winter and cool in summer, with four seasons like spring. Xichang, rich in tourism resources, is an important node of the Great Shangri-La Tourism Loop and the Sichuan-Yunnan Tourism Golden Line. There are Qionghai-Lushan Mountain, Qionghai National Wetland Park, Luoji Mountain, Lugu Lake, Lingshan Temple, Xichang Satellite Launch Base, Educated Youth Museum, Huanglian Tulin and other tourist attractions in and around the territory.
Many peaks in the northern section of Xichang are above 3500 meters above sea level and gradually decrease to the south. The whole mountain range, most of the boundaries are between 2000 and 3000 meters; The east side of Anning River belongs to Luoji Mountain range, with its north main ridge line in Xide County and south main ridge line on the dividing line between Xichang and Puge.
Xichang belongs to subtropical monsoon climate (or subtropical plateau monsoon climate), which is characterized by high temperature and rainy summer and mild and little rain in winter. Compared with the plain at the same latitude, it has the characteristics of cool in summer, warm in winter and small annual temperature difference.