With a population of nearly 43,0000 and an area of 1183 square kilometers,EmeishanCityis located in the southwest rim of the Sichuan Basin.MountEmei, being world-famous for its long historical Buddhist culture and beautiful natural scenery, sits in this city, which was made a UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site in December,1996.
Emeishan City has an ideal environment and blessed geography. It’s a humid subtropical monsoon climate (Köppen Cfa) , with an annual average temperature of 17.2°C and rainfall of 1555.3 millimeters.Forestarea occupies around 71500 hectares, around 57.9% of the city's total area. Today, Emeishan city has 242 families of higher plants, more than 3200 species, which nearly amounts to a third of plant species inSichuanand a tenth of the country. Among more than 2300 kinds of wild animal, there are 29 kinds of the national protected animal.
Emeishan City, Which is well-known forMt.Emei, is a city with 1400 years of the profound cultural foundation.Mt.Emeiis the 5A of state - level scenic spots and one of theFourSacredBuddhistMountainsofChinaand has a reputation of "Fairyland of Buddhism " and “GeologicalMuseum”. Once upon a time, many ancients, such as Li Bai，Lu You, Xu Xiaoke, Zen master Bie Feng and so on, had been attracted to linger in its beautiful scenery. They wrote such wonderful poems topraise Mt.Emei. For Instance, the poet Li Bai wrote" Autumn moon overMountEmei, so like a half wheel Your reflection in the Pingqiang with its current flows and " Shu kingdom with fairy mountains,MountEmeiis peerless ". For thousands of years, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism had conflicted, fused and evolved with each others in here. Finally, that have formed the unique culture of MountEmeiwhich take Zen culture, Wushu culture and Tea culture as the core.
Rich and colorful, tourism resources ofEmeishanCitymainly mixes with three unique folk cultures -- Buddhism, Emei Wushu and tea culture. It has formed a diversified tourism pattern that integrates with Natural Sightseeing, Cultural Experience, Buddhist Pilgrimage, Tea-drinking Regimen , Leisure Tourism and Rural Tourism so far.Nowadays,the government ofEmeishanCityis actively engaged in constructing the international leisure tourism resort.
