Changchun, China

　　Changchun, China

　　Changchun, China

　　Changchun, China

　　Changchun, hina

　　Changchun, China 

Located in the Central Songliao Plain of the Northeast China, Changchun is the capital city of Jilin Province and one of China’s 15 sub-provincial municipalities. The city, with a total population of 8.50 million, covers 24,651 square kilometers.

As a beautiful city, Changchun has a pleasant climate and distinct scenery in each of the four seasons. Owning the largest artificial forest of Asia, the city, 41.5 percent of whose urban area is covered by green, is awarded as the “National Model of Green City”, “National Model of Environmentally Friendly City”, and “National Clean City”.

As a prosperous city, Changchun has bred many breakthroughs of the People’s Republic of China, including the first truck, first car, first railway vehicle, and first electron microscope. Three of the ten counties with the highest grain output are governed by Changchun, which is located on the famous “Golden Maize Belt” in the world. As one of the “Most Influential Exhibition Cites of China”, the city is holding a number of famous events, including the International Automobile Expo, the Agriculture Expo, the Film Festival, and the International Sculpture Expo.

As a harmonious city, Changchun is improving with its spirit of “inclusiveness and self-improvement” given by its builders in every step of its development. At present, the people of the city are elaborating and creating a mode of social governance that combines the ideas of “humanity, grid formation, information, and the rule of law”, so as to actively and continually improve its social insurance system and rule the city by law.

As an open city, Changchun benefits from its location at the geographical center of the Northeast Asia and becomes the front-runner to practice the National Strategy of Opening and Developing the “Changchun-Jilin-Tumen” Region. The city’s National Development Zones of Jingkai, Jingyue, High-tech, and Automobile have attracted 70 of the Fortune Top 500 companies to settle in. As Jilin’s first and China’s 19th national comprehensive bonded zone, Changchun Xinglong Comprehensive Bonded Zone is serving as a new platform and window to make the city more open and influential.

As a city of happiness, Changchun is increasing the “happiness index” of its citizens and has won the title of the “City of the Highest Happiness Index” for seven consecutive years. The city’s government has carry out Projects to Improve People’s Well-being every year since 2007. The Projects have helped the citizens with their specific affairs for over 700 times in total. Therefore, the people born, growing up, and striving for their success in the city are enjoying a better and better life. We sincerely hope that with the happy scenes we collect in the picture album Changchun, a City of Happiness, our readers from everywhere would start to know and understand Changchun, and finally, visit and fall in love with our city.