Zunyi is a prefecture-level city in Guizhou province in southwestern China . The two main district of the city, known as HuiChuan and Honghuagang, have a population of around 800,000 people, and the whole region, including 14 county-level administration area as a whole, has a population of approximately 7 million.
Location
Zunyi is located in North Guizhou province, situated at the side of the Xiangjiang River - a branch of Wujiang River. The altitude of the city is approximately 900 meters.
History
Zunyi is known for being the location where Mao Zedong was first elected to the leadership of the Communist Party of China during the Long March. After this famours "Zunyi meeting", Mao Zedong and other two leaders formed a group to control the procedure of Long March. Chinese tourists come to take photographs in the meeting hall where this historic election took place . This historical meeting hall once belonged to a local warlord and after being occupied by the Red Army served as the temporary headquarters.
Economy
Zunyi is the economic and commercial hub of the North Guizhou Province. The GDP of the city accounts for one quarter of the whole province among its 9 prefecture-level divisions.
Culture
Being known as the "home of culture" of Guizhou province, Zunyi, or the North-Guizhou area, is the education and Economics centre of the province.
Institutions of higher learning
*Zunyi Medical College
Culture of food and wine
Zunyi is known for being a place where Chinese leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, visited to enjoy its fiery hot local cuisine, including yangrou fen .
This is made with Lai fen, a kind of thick wide round rice noodle that is made locally , and is difficult to find elsewhere.
The rice liquor Maotai is brewed nearby, as is Dongjiu. The local beer Gaoyuan is quite delicious.
It is said that the local mountain water accounts for the quality of these locally-brewed beverages, although pollution currently threatens the water of the Chishui River, from which Maotai is made.
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