遵义英文介绍.doc

Zunyi is located in the northern part of Guizhou Province, in the northeastern part of Yungui Plateau. It is the biggest of Guizhou's nine prefecture-level divisions, and covers 30,762 sq km, % of province's total area. Its population was million in 2009。
This prefecture-level city played an important role in the revolutionary history of China. In 1935, Mao Zedong was first elected to the leadership of munist Party of China during the Long March at the Zunyi Meeting.
Zunyi has a middle-subtropical, humid monsoon climate with plenty of rain, and no extremely hot summer or bitter cold winter. The average temperature is °C, while the average annual precipitation totals 1,000-1,300 mm.
Zunyi is rich in natural resources. Forests cover % of the city's lands. Average annual runoff of the surface water amounts to billion steres, accounting for approximately 17% of the province's total. In addition, Zunyi is replete with mineral resources such as manganese, pyrite, silica, nickel, molybdenum and barium. Proven reserves of manganese and coal amount to 50 billion tons and billion tons, ranking first and third in Guizhou, respectively. Additionally, Zunyi is widely appraised as the Northern Barn of Guizhou, since grain production of the city contributed approximately one fourth of the province's total.
Zunyi is one of the transportation hub cities in Northern