The general situation of Changchun

Changchun locates the central part in the Northeast Plain of China. It lies in the Songliao Plain of China. If you compare the landscape of China to be a cock, Changchun is the eyes of this cock. It is a provincial capital of Jilin Province, the politics, economy, cultural center of the whole province. There are six areas which are Nanguan, Kuancheng, Chaoyang, Erdao, Liuyuan and Shuangyang and four counties which are Jiutai, Yushu, Dehui and Nongan. The total area of Changchun is about 20571 square kilometers, including 3583 square kilometers of the city proper and 168.6 square kilometers of Jiancheng. There are total 38 nations such as the Han nationality, the Man nationality, the Chaoxian nationality, the Hui nationality, the Mongolia, the Zhuang nationality, the Xibo nationality and so on. The total population is 7120 thousand, including 2,740,000 downtown population.
ChangchunĄŻs weather which belongs to the continental half-moist monsoon climate is between the moist east mountain and the half-dry west plain. Although the east and south region are not far apart from the ocean, because of the fence of the Changbai mountainous, it weakens the function of the monsoon in summer. The western and north region are the flat Songliao Plain, the monsoon of the Siberia are without obstruction, the influence of each monsoon are very big, so the characteristics of the weather is clear all the year round and the weather is pleasant. It is strict, cold and endless in winter, much drier and windy in spring, warm and short in summer, clear and very different temperature in autumn. The average temperature of year is 4.8Ąć. The average temperature of the most cold January is -16.3 Ąć, the average temperature of the most hot July is 23 Ąć. The tallest temperature is 39.5 Ąć and the lowest temperature is - 39.8 Ąć. The average sunshine of year is about 2,866 hours nad the average raining is 567.0 millimeters. It is called the spring city of the Mogolian region because the weather is cool and there are so many green trees in summer. It has the good reputation of the spring city of the northland in China because of so much white snow.
The region of Changchun is broad, the land resources, the wild animals and the plants are very abundant. There are more than 300 typesĄŻ wild plants which have the economy valuable and 34 typeĄŻs conservation wild animals. There are in rich of oil and gas. And 11 types mineral such as coal, oily mineral, minerals of soil, copper, silver, iron resources have been found in Changchun. Through many years of construction and developments, the automobile, the agriculture by-product processes deeply and the high new technique has become three major of pillar industry of Changchun.
Changchun has the good reputation of the forest city, the automobile city, the movie city, the techno-culture city. The area of landscaping of city is close to 40% and is in the front of the big cities of China. It provides the beautiful life and work environments for the city the residents. It is light green in spring, dark green in summer, colorful in autumn and so much white snow in winter. Changchun has been a good place where the foreign and Chinese guests goes to summer resort, spends a holiday and makes sight-seeing tour.