A Brief Introduction to Huai’an

Huai’an is located on the dividing line between the North and South of China. It has four distinct seasons and covers a total area of about 10,000 square kilometers with a population of nearly 5.6 million. Huai’an has a history of more than 2,200 years. Huai’an, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou are also known as the “four major cities” along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Huai’an is an important transportation hub not only in Jiangsu Province but also in the northern part of the Yangtze River Delta.

Huai’an is a big traditional agriculture city and an important national grain production base. Huai’an is a new industrial city as well. It is the birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine, one of the four famous traditional Chinese cuisines. And Huai’an is also the City of Gastronomy.

Huai’an has been praised as land of outstanding people, and is the homwtown of well-respected former Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai. In the history, the great military strategist Han Xin, Mei Cheng the master of han-fu, the heroine Liang Hongyu, and the author of the Journey to the West Wu Chengen, as well as the author of the travels of lao can Liu E all of them were born here.

Huai’an is a beautiful and green ecological water city，a national health city, a garden city, an environmental protection model city, a low-carbon pilot city, the excellent chinese tour city, as well as a national eco-city.