Longchang County
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Longchang County is a county of Sichuan Province
Sichuan
' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

. It is under the administration of Neijiang
Neijiang
Neijiang is a prefecture-level city in the Southeast of Sichuan Province, in southwest of China, with a population of about 4,200,000. It is located on the Tuo River and is a transportation and food-processing center...

 city. Longchang has a population of nearly 760,000, covering 794.41 square kilometer.

Longchang seizes an important geographic location as the boundary of Sichuan and Chongqing, and plays as distributing center of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing. Since the advantageous location, many important traffice ways pass through Longchang, like the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway
Chengdu-Chongqing Railway
Chengdu-Chongqing Railway or Chengyu Railway , also known as the Chengyu Line, is a single-track, electrified, railroad in the Sichuan Basin of Southwest China between the cities of Chengdu and Chongqing. Chongqing's short form name is Yu and the railway is named after the two cities...

, highway,public road, East Chuanyun (Sichuan to Yunnan) road, Longna(Longchang to Luzhou) highway, Longya(Longchang to Ya'an) road, Longhuang(Longchang to Huangtong Guizhou) rail way. To get out of Sichuan Province and further go to the sea, you could choose Longchang as the best way. Thus it's called the esat gate of Sichuan.

In the long history, Longchang is famous for memorial arches and blue stone. Longchang take it a feature to develop tourism. Nowadays, Longchang has finished the plan of bluestone cultural city with eight bluestone image views, including gate, culture, city's dining room, lounge, green park, landscape, business district, landmark. Still this county has some other tourism resources, like groups of memorial arches, Guyu artificial lake, Yunding stockaded village, lamp mountain.
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