Located in the West of Henan Province, Luoyang got its name due to its location in the adret of the ancient Luoshui River. It is a historic city with more than three thousand years history. It was the capital city for nine dynasties, including the East Zhou, East Han, Caowei, West Jin, North Wei, Sui, Wuzhou, Late Liang, Late Tang, so it is named as the "Ancient Capital of the Nine Dynasties", ranking top one among the seven ancient capitals in China. The Heluo area with Luoyang as the center is the important origin of the Huaxia Civilization. The most prosperous period of Luoyang was in t LuoY ang City Instruction Luoyang is located in the western part of Henan It has jurisdiction province, stretching across the middle reaches of the Yellow River.over 1 city, 8 counties and 6 districts with a total area of 15,208 square kilometers including 544 square kilometers of urban area. Its population totals 6.24 million of As a city famous for its splendid history which over 1.40 million living in urban areas. and profound culture, Luoyang has become a shining gem in central part of China for its abundant and characteristic modern civilization.----Luoyang has been known as It is among the first cities to be declared by the "an ancient capital of nine dynasties ".State Council as the ancient capitals and famous historical and cultural cities. Starting from the first dynasty of China---Xia, it served as capital for 13 dynasties---Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, etc. It served as a capital for 1,529 years, and thus of the 7 great ancient capitals in China, it was the first one to have served as the capital for the most numerous dynasties and for the longest time. Luoyang is one of the important birthplaces of the Chinese civilization. Culture in the Yellow River and the Luo River symbolized by the Pattern of the Yellow River and the Writing of Luoyang is regarded as a key origin of the ancient Chinese civilization. It was here that Taoism initiated, Confucianism originated. Buddhism first introduced and Li School--a Confucian school of idealist Many Chinese descendants found philosophy of the Song and Ming Dynasties born. their roots here and cherished a deep love for the homeland.----Luoyang is one of the top tourist cities in China with its numerous cultural relics dotted everywhere, picturesque landscape and national flower-Tree Peony. The city has inherited from history such cultural heritages as ruins of the old capital, temples and stone caves, and tombs and steles. It has 10 national sites, 75 provincial sites, and over 571 municipal sites to be protected as cultural relics with nearly 400,000 items of relics having been unearthed and kept in museums. The rare ruins of the capitals from the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Han and Wei, Sui and Tang dynasties are named "Assembly of Five Capitals ". Longmen Grottoes is one of the three great banks of Chinese stone sculptures that is a World Cultural Heritage. The White Horse Temple is the first officially built In the Mangshan Mountain monastery in China after the introduction of Buddhism. there remains the largest group of ancient tombs in China featured by royal tombs, which took form since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.To the north of Luoyang is the Mother River of the Chinese nation---the Yellow River that together with a tourist resorts around the Xiaolangdi Reservoir and Wanshanhu tourist area in Xin'an. To the south are spots of interests such as the Songshan Mountain which is the central one of the Five High Mountains of China, a national forest park at the Baiyun Mountain, Longyu Bay and Huaguo Mountain, a magically shaped Cockscomb Karst Cave, and tourist area around Luhun Reservoir. Known as national beauty and heavenly fragrance, peony has been planted for nearly 1,500 years in Luoyang. Around April every year, the peony comes into full bloom, decorating the urban areas with flooding colors. Especially the Luoyang Peony Festival to be held every year, which has . A long become an occasion that attracts millions of tourists both at home and abroad history, a brilliant accumulation of culture and a variety of beautiful natural scenery all combine to provide Luoyang with exceptional advantages in tourist business. With rich economic resources, strong sci-tech power and concentration of many large enterprises, Luoyang is one of the important quicke industrial cities in mid-west part of China. During the first Five-Year Plan period, 7 of the 156 key projects in China were set up here and nowadays it has developed to a new industrial base with 6 pillar industries in machinery and electronics, petrochemistry, metallurgy, building materials, textile, and foodstuff. Large-sized enterprise groups appear such as Luoyang Petrochemistry General Factory, the China first Tractor Group, Luoyang Ball Bearing (Group) Corporation, Luoyang Bronze Processing Factory, Luoyang Float Glass Group and these enterprises are fairly strong in their competitiveness in both international and domestic markets in their respective fields. Luoyang enjoys an apparent advantage in science and technology. It seats 14 scientific research institutions attached to various ministries of the State, and 18 backbone institutions of the province and the city. 1,972 out of every 10,000 employees are professionals, average. Many institutions are leading the which is a proportion above the national nation in testing and research, presenting new projects and products in such high-tech fields as new materials, aviation and aerospace, electronics information, and integration of machinery and electronics. New & High-tech Industry Development Zone has become a base for transforming traditional industries with new technology and a window open to the outside world.----In recent years, Luoyang has grasped the opportunity of west development and pro-active fiscal policy of the State, deepened the reform and ned the development. In 2001, a GNP reached 46.57 billion Yuan and the local revenue exceeded 2.42 billion Y uan. The rural economy has seen stable development, the reform of the state-owned enterprises and readjustment of industrial structure have been deepened, and rising industries such as petrochemistry, electrolyzed aluminum, coal and electronic information have been developing rapidly. Focusing on to develop the southern new developing zone, we will speed up the infrastructure and comprehensive management with contents of " Greenness, brightness, cleanness, prettiness and smoothness ". The urban infrastructure and management ability has further improved, as a result of which in 2001 it has passed appraisai of the country being a Garden and Forest City and has been enlisted as Top Tourist City of China. Environment for tourism has been improved greatly. In 2001 the city received 106,000 tourists from abroad, 12.31 million tourists at home with total tourism income of 6 billion Y uan. The strategy of achieving development through reform has been implemented actively and friendly ties and exchanges with foreign countries and regions have been strengthened. And by the strategy of rejuvenating Luoyang through science and education, various social undertakings have been making progress. Social security system has been perfected, peoples living standard upgraded and buildind of spiritual civilization and rule of law further opportunities and promoted.----At present Luoyang is facing favorable development o pportunities and conditions. Completion of several key projects such as key water control project at Xiaolangdi, the chemical fiber, laid a solid foundation found ation for city’s development in the new century. In years to come, Luoyang will implement the policy to build up our city into a strength city in industry and tourism, further improve strategic readjustment in economic structure. Efforts will be made to speed up upgrading and perfection of traditional industries and growth of rising industries, to actively develop non-state-owned economy and to constantly increase both quality and benefits of the economic growth. Given primary construction to high-standard planning and high--quality in infrastructure construction, the city will quicken urban development, further improve its environment quality and cultural connotation and speed up process of urbanization, thus developing tourism as an important backbone industry, Construction on culture, democracy and rule of law will be actively the 10th Five-Year Plan period, the enhanced. It is hoped that through endeavors in goal of developing Luoyang into a modern industrial city equipped with advanced science and education, and an international city backed by rich historical culture.----"If you want to know the rises and falls in China, please just look at the city of Luoyang. " We warmly welcome people from all over the world to come to Luoyang to go on sightseeing and make friends, to search for roots, to build industry and business, to pursue joint development with us, and to reconstruct the splendor of the ancient capita l。
