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Places in China: Anhui Province
Although one of the poorest provinces in China, Anhui has some of the most beautiful mountains in the country. The Huangshan Mountains have unique rock formations, lakes, natural hot springs and beautiful pine trees.
The poverty of the province is largely due to the fact that one-third of the province is low-lying. The frequent flooding of the banks of the Huai River and Yangzi River tend to make crop production harder to accomplish.
The province is named after the two cities in the southern part of the province, Anging and Huizhou. Huizhou has been renamed as Huangshan. Anhui borders six other provinces and contains two major rivers.
Anhui is the twenty-second largest province in China with an area of 142,450 square kilometres. This province, however, has the eighth largest population among China's provinces. The population average in Anhui is 3.2 times the national average for the country.
The provincial capital is Hefei and is about 275 miles west of the Pacific Ocean and about 250 miles from Shanghai. Being a part of the Shanghai Special Economic Zone, Anhui has four of China's industrial centres.
There has been a settlement at Hefei since the second century BC. Only a few of the Ming dynasty moats which once surrounded the city can be explored now. In 1952, it became the provincial capital and has developed into a thriving industrial city of around one million population.
Another town in Anhui Province is Tunxi. It has sometimes been called Huangshan City due to the beautiful Huangshan Mountains there. This is a quite popular tourist attraction so the paths up and down the mountains often have lots of hiking parties.
The people of Anhui are ninety-nine percent Han and less than one percent Hui and an even smaller number of She.
Anhui officially became a province of China after the Manchu conquered China and brought an end to the Ming dynasty in the seventeenth century. Anhui is the birthplace of some famous Chinese personages including Laozi.
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