Lichuan ( Chinese: 利川 市 , Pinyin : Lichuan ) is a city county in Enshi-Tujia-Miaoski Autonomous Region of Hubei Province, Hubei Province of China .
| city county | |
| Lichuan | |
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| 利川 | |
| A country | PRC |
| Included in | Enshi-Tujia-Miao Autonomous Region of Hubei Province |
| History and Geography | |
| Area | 4,603 km² |
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| Timezone | UTC + 8: 00 |
| Population | |
| Population | 930 thousand people ( 2010 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postal codes | 445400 |
| Official site | |
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The population of the county of the city is 930,000 (2010).
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Nature
- 3 Transport
- 4 notes
History
The status of a city county was assigned in 1986.
Nature
In the vicinity of Lichuan, metasequoia grows - a unique plant listed in the International Red Book . [one]
Transport
Lichuan is an important railway junction for communication between Shanghai and Wuhan in the east, and Chongqing and Chengdu in the west.
A high-speed passenger line Shanghai - Wuhan - Chengdu passes through the city. The Yichang - Wanzhou section was commissioned in 2010. In 2012, the completion of the Chongqing-Lichuan branch is expected .
The Lichuan Highway 318 runs through Shanghai , connecting Shanghai and Tibet all the way to the Nepal border.
Notes
- ↑ Langlois, Gaytha A. (2005), "A conservation plant for Metasequoia in China" , in LePage, Ben A .; Williams, Christopher James & Yang, Hong, The geobiology and ecology of Metasequoia , Volume 22 of Topics in geobiology, Springer, p. 369, ISBN 1402026315 , < https://books.google.com/books?id=JfiWU-1GSqEC&pg=PA369 >