What kind of city is Zhangjiajie?

Zhangjiajie

Area code: 0744

Postal code: 427000

District: Zhangjiajie City has jurisdiction over Yongding District, Wulingyuan District, and Cili County Hesangzhi County

Tourism service hotline: 5618331

Municipal tourism complaints: 8380193

Scenic area tourism complaints: 5618331

Consumer complaints: 12315

Area: 9563 square kilometers

Population: more than 1.5 million

Zhangjiajie was originally named Dayong and was the seat of the ancient Yong Kingdom. As early as the late primitive society, ancestors had begun to live and thrive on both sides of the Lishui River. In the era of Yao and Shun, "Shun took pleasure trips to the Chongshan Mountains to transform the Southern Barbarians." Therefore, the term "Southern Barbarians" came into being in Chinese history. In 221 BC, Emperor Qin Shihuang established counties and counties. The Zhangjiajie area belonged to Cigu County, Qianzhong County, and the county seat was Guantaping, Cili County (now Taiping Village, Jiangjiaping Township). In the sixth year of Yong'an (AD 264) of Emperor Wu Jing of the Three Kingdoms, Songliang County was named Tianmen Mountain, and Tianmen County was established. By the Liangpu, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it belonged to Tianmen County, Zhongzhong and Linli County. Dayong County was established in the Ming Dynasty in 1369, and Yongding County was established in the 13th year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1735 AD).

From the liberation in 1949 to 1988, Cili County belonged to the Changde Prefecture. By the end of 1988, Dayong and Sangzhi were under the jurisdiction of the Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in western Hunan. In May 1988, with the approval of the State Council, Dayong City, a provincial-level prefecture-level city, was established. In April 1994, the prefecture-level Dayong City was renamed Zhangjiajie City. Zhangjiajie City is named after Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, which is famous at home and abroad.

Zhangjiajie City is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, at the junction of the Qugui Plateau uplift and the Dongting Lake subsidence area, between 109 degrees 40 minutes to 111 degrees 20 minutes east longitude, and 28 degrees 52 minutes to 29 degrees north latitude 48 minutes, it borders Shimen and Taoyuan counties in the east, Yuanling County in the south, and Hefeng and Xuanen counties in Hubei Province in the north. The city boundary is 167 kilometers long from east to west and 96 kilometers wide from north to south. The city's total area is 9,653 square kilometers, accounting for 4.5% of the province's area.

Zhangjiajie is world-famous for its unique tourism resources. The Wulingyuan Scenic Area, which consists of China's first national forest park Zhangjiajie and two nature reserves of Tianzi Mountain and Suoxiyu, covers an area of ??369 square kilometers. The area is dominated by the world's rare quartz sandstone peak forest canyon landform, which integrates Guilin. The beauty of Huangshan Mountain, the danger of Huashan Mountain, and the majesty of Mount Tai are integrated into one body. It has Tibet, bridges, caves, lakes, and waterfalls. It is known as "the enlarged bonsai and the reduced fairy mountain".

Zhangjiajie is extremely rich in tourism resources. Wulingyuan Scenic Area, which consists of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxiyu Scenic Area, Tianzi Mountain Scenic Area and Yangjiajie Scenic Area, is a national key scenic area with an area of 264 square kilometers, it was included in the "World Natural and Cultural Heritage List" by UNESCO in December 1992. In the scenic area, three thousand peaks rise from the ground, and eight hundred streams meander criss-cross. The scenery is strange, beautiful, quiet and dangerous, and is known as the "original Chinese landscape painting". Scenic spots and historic sites such as Puguang Temple and Yuhuangdong Grottoes, as well as the former residences of celebrities such as He Long and Du Xinwu, constitute local cultural tourism resources; while the simple ethnic minority customs and folk martial arts and hard qigong add to the local tourism resources.