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Shenyang City of China
Shenyang (沈阳, in Chinese), or Mukden (in Manchu), is the capital city of Liaoning province in Northeast China. It is a sub-provincial city with a population of 7.2 million within its administrative area of 12,924 km². The Shenyang metropolitan area is 7400 km² in size and has a population of 5.53 million. Along with its nearby cities, Shenyang is an important industrial center in China, and the transportation and commercial centre of China's Northeastern region. The city was also known as Shengjing (盛京) or Fengtian (奉天).
Shenyang, one of China's largest cities with a sprawling populace of almost 7 million, reigns as the capital of the Liaoning province. Located about 100 miles inland from the Bohai Sea in China's northeast corner, it is best known as an industrial behemoth. Zinc, copper and lead smelting plants combine with heavy machinery, textile, medicine, chemical, transformer, and tractor manufacturing plants to mold the kind of powerful economic muscle that most industrialized nations would swoon to possess. But because of such blue-collar focus Shenyang's tourism limps along as a mere afterthought. Major eye-candy attractions such as the Imperial Palace and the Shenyang Botanical Garden are worthy of attention, but when compared with northeast China's tourist-geared coastal cities Shenyang comes across as a gritty and grimy monument to the smokestacks of industry.
The city’s name, Shenyang, literally meaning "the city in the north of Shen River", comes from the old name of the Hun River on the city’s south side, which used to be called Shen River. Archaeological findings show that human beings resided in present day Shenyang as early as 7,200 years ago. The City of Shenyang was first established by Qin Kai, a general of Yan (state) in the Warring States period about 300 B.C. It was named as Houcheng (Chinese: 候城) at that time. It became known as Shen prefecture (瀋州) in the Jin Dynasty and ShenyangLu (Chinese: 瀋陽路) in the Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, it became Shenyang Zhongwei (Chinese: 瀋陽中衛).
The city has three sections—the old Chinese city, which is the administrative center; the new city, developed by the Japanese around the railroad; and a residential section beyond the railroad. The area doubled in population in the 1950s and 1960s, with a striking increase in both city and suburban population. Shenyang is the seat of Liaoning Univ., Northeastern China Technical Univ., a medical college, a conservatory of music, and numerous other specialized institutes.