安徽省英文介绍书面版本小组翻译总稿Anhui Province of People’s Republic of China,, Wan for short, is located in the eastern China inland with its capital city Hefei. It was originally set up in the name of Jiangnan Provincial Administration Government in 1667 AD,taking its government seat in Nanjing due to the division of the Jiangnan (what is now Anhui ,Jiangsu, and Shanghai.) into East and West. Later, its name was changed into Anhui Provincial Administration Government ,which comes from the two first letters of Anqing Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture ,and the government seat was moved to Anqing . The Republic of China then follow its suit ,setting Anhui Province.Anhui ,an offshore province lies in the eastern China.Both the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the south（about 416kilometers）and the middle reaches of the Huaihe River(about 430 kilometers) in the north run across the province,which divides the whole province into three different regions: the north of Huaihe River, the region between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, and Jiangnan area. It is adjacent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province in the east, Hubei and Henan Province in the west, and Shandong Province in the north. It covers an area of 139.6 thousand square kilometers (about 450 kilometers wide from west to east and 570 kilometers long from south to north.), composed of the region of Huaihe River with 67 thousand square kilometers,the region of the Yangtze River with 66 thousand square kilometers and the region of Xinan River with 6.5 thousand square kilometers. The area is almost 1.45 percent of that of the country ,ranking third in eastern China and rankingtwenty-second in the whole country.Anhui Province is at longitude 114°54’--119°37’ east and 29°41’--34°38’ north latitude. It is located in the transitional area of warm temperate climate. Divided by the Huaihe River, the northern region of Anhui belongs to sub-humid warm temperate monsoon climate zone,and the southern part is subtropical monsoon climate. So the Anhui Province has a very temperate climate with abundant sunshine, evident monsoon climate and four distinct seasons.The topography and terrain of this province is various. The landscape is mainly made up of plain (31.3%), hill (29.5%),and lower mountain (31.2%),which are always in opposite arrangement, forming the diversity of landscape in this area. The lakes and marshes also take 8 percent of the whole landscape. The natural area can be divided into five different types: the Huaibei Plain, the Jianghuai Hill, the Dabieshan Mountain Area in the western part of Anhui , the Plain along the Yangtze River, and the Mountain Area in the southern part of Center-China.The culture of Anhui Province can be classified into three major kind：the culture of Anhui, the culture of the region between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, the culture of Zhongyuan . According to the sixth nationwide census in 2010, this province has reached a population of 68.62 million. The province tree is the Pinus taiwanensis, the province flower is Rhododendron anhweiense Wils and the province bird is cyanopica cyana. There are many magnificent mountain ranges in this province , including Mt.Dabieshan, Mt.Huangshan, Mt.Jiuhuashan, Mt.Tianzhushan. And the altitude of the highest peak in Mt.Huangshan can reach 1864.7 meters.Besides, it also has a great number of rivers and lakes. Chaohu, one of the fivelargest fresh lakes in China also lies in this province. With abundant resources and advanced agriculture,Anhui Province is a quite large aggregation of human life.。
