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Welcome everyone to travel to Datong!
Datong is one of the first 24 historical and cultural cities in the State Council and the second largest city in Shanxi Province. Datong is located at the northern end of Shanxi, between the inside and outside of the Great Wall. It is adjacent to Inner Mongolia across the Great Wall in the north and west, facing Hebei and Gyeonggi across the Taihang Mountains in the east, and connected with Yansai Xiongguan by Sanggan River in the south. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. The urban area is a basin surrounded by mountains on three sides, with Leigong Mountain and Wuzhou Mountain as barriers in the west, Qifeng Mountain as barriers in the southwest, Cailiang Mountain Lock Town in the northeast and Yu He River running through the north and south, which is a natural place to build a city.
Datong ancient city has a long history. As early as the Stone Age, the ancestors of the Chinese nation thrived here. Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties once belonged to Jizhou. During the Warring States period, it belonged to Yanmen County of Zhao State. In the 3rd century BC, the city of Datong was built, where Li Mu, a famous soldier of Zhao, once built a beacon tower and part of the Great Wall. After the reunification of Qin, the old system was followed. After the Western Han Dynasty replaced the Qin Dynasty, Pingcheng County was located in Datong and still belonged to Yanmen County. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Tuoba, a Xianbei nationality living in Daxinganling, migrated from northeast to southwest and established its capital in central Inner Mongolia. However, Tuoba GUI, Emperor Daowu, soon moved the capital from Lesheng (now Inner Mongolia and Linger) to Pingcheng in 398 AD. Since then, Datong has been the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty for nearly a hundred years (that is, "once the capital"), and it was not until 494 AD that Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang. During this period, the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty built large-scale construction in Datong, and built hundreds of cities, palaces and ancestral temples. The Yungang Grottoes, which are famous at home and abroad, were dug at this time. This period of history is the most glorious era in Datong ancient times.
After the Northern Wei Dynasty, Beiqi changed Pingcheng to Heng 'an Town. The Northern Zhou Dynasty also set up Yunzhong County. In Sui Dynasty, Yunnei County was changed to Jizhou County. The Tang Dynasty was the jurisdiction of Yunzhong County. Qidan, another ethnic minority in Northeast China, established the Liao Dynasty after its stubbornness, taking Datong as "Xijing". After the Nuzhen nationality destroyed Liao and established the Jin Dynasty, Datong remained Xijing as its capital. This is the so-called Jinghua two generations in Datong history. The development of Datong has entered a new period of prosperity, and the famous Huayan Temple and Shanhua Temple are precious heritages left at this time. Datong county in Yuan Dynasty. Ruled by Datong government in Ming and Qing dynasties, it was an important town in the north. In the early Republic of China, datong county was re-established. After the liberation of 1949, Jiandong was under the jurisdiction of Chahar Province, and 1952 was under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province. 1993, after the administrative office of Yanbei in Datong City was abolished, it now governs four districts, namely, urban area, mining area, Xinrong and Nanjiao, and seven counties, namely, Zuoyun, Datong, Tianzhen, Yanggao, Hunyuan, Lingqiu and Guangling, with a total population of more than 2.7 million, of which the population of urban area and mining area is about 800,000.
After half a century's construction, Datong has become the second largest industrial base in Shanxi, with developed industries such as machinery manufacturing, building materials, coal and electricity. There are many large state-owned enterprises such as Shanxi Diesel Engine Factory, Datong Locomotive Factory, Datong Cement Factory, Datong Thermal Power Plant, and Datong Mining Bureau with the largest output in China. More than a dozen coal mines have an annual output of more than 37 million tons, ranking first in the country, so this famous city beyond the Great Wall is also known as the "coal capital".
Datong, with developed traffic, is the transportation hub of Shanxi, Hebei and Mongolia, the intersection of beijing-baotou railway and Tongpu Railway, the starting point of Daqin Railway, and an important stop on the international intermodal transportation line from Beijing to Moscow and East, Central and Western Europe via Ulaanbaatar. Datong has seven highways connected with Beijing, Hohhot, Taiyuan, Wutai Mountain and Baoding, forming a highway network extending in all directions. With the construction of Beijing-Dalian Expressway and Universiade Expressway, the road traffic in Datong will be more convenient. As a famous historical and cultural city, Datong has many cultural relics and high value. There are not only the city wall, Drum Tower, Jiulong Wall, Fenglinge, Caofulou, Pipa Old Shop, Pingcheng Site, Northern Wei Imperial Tomb, Volcanoes and other places of interest, but also the Yungang Grottoes, Upper and Lower Huayan Temple, Shanhua Temple and other national key cultural relics protection units. Huiyuan County also has Hengshan Mountain and Miaoxuan Temple in Beiyue. These famous tourist attractions at home and abroad are looking forward to our visit!