Chinese Name: 朝阳市 (cháo yáng shì)

Population: 3, 400,000  

Area: 19,730 square kilometers (7,618 square miles) 

Nationalities: Han 

Administrative Division: 2 districts (Shuangta, Longcheng); 2 counties (Chaoyang, Jianping); 1 autonomous county (Harqin Zuoyi Mongol Autonomous County); 1 county-level city (Chaoyang)  

Seat of the City Government: 7, the third section of Chaoyang Jie, Shuangta District, Chaoyang City  

Useful Telephone Numbers: Tourist Complaints: 0421-2922376
                                           Weather Forecast: 121
                                           Zip Code Inquiry: 184

Bank of China Chaoyang Branch: 45, The second section of Xinhua Lu, Shuangta District, Chaoyang City 

China Post Chaoyang Branch: 72, the third section of Chaoyang Jie, Shuangta District, Chaoyang City

Location: Situated in western Liaoning Province, Chaoyang City is bordered by Hebei Province in the south and neighbors Inner Mongolia in the north. It is a coastal city in western Liaoning, adjacent to Shenyang and Anshan in Central Liaoning.        

History: For a long time, Chaoyang was governed or partly administered by regimes of ethnic minorities. It was successively the capital of Qian Yan, Hou Yan and Bei Yan States of the Sixteen States in northern China. The name Chaoyang first appeared during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) named after Chaoyang Cave in Fenghuang (Phoenix) Mountain.       
 
Physical Features: Chaoyang is situated in the intermediate area between the loess plateau of Inner Mongolia and Songliao Plain, and its terrain generally declines from the northwest to the southeast. Low mountains and hills make up the main framework of the city. Among the mountain ranges are dotted fluvial plains and basins.                 

Climate: Enjoying a temperate continental monsoon climate, the city features great temperature differences during a day, long sunlight hours, light rainfall and four distinct seasons. Its annual temperature averages around 10℃ (50℉).  
     
When to Go: spring and autumn

Local Highlights: Every year on the thirtieth day of the seventh lunar month, the seven-day-long culture and art festival (temple fair) is held in Fenghuang Mountain.

Special Local Products: Sea buckthorn, almonds, Chinese dates

 Attraction:
Fenghuang (Phoenix) Mountain is a famous historic mountain in western Liaoning, well known in ancient times as a Buddhist shrine. About 1660 years ago, historically the earliest temple of Northeast China, Longxiang Buddhist Temple, was established in the mountain, and is today regarded as the ancestral temple of Buddhism in Northeast China. Through a thousand years of ups and downs, three pagodas and several other relics are still extant. Apart from grand mountain scenery, the mountain is the important habitat of a rare bird, the black stork. 

Northern Chaoyang Pagoda in the north end of the Shuangta Jie of Shuangta District is a brick Buddhist pagoda first established in 485 in the former palace site of the three Yan states (Qian Yan, Hou Yan and Bei Yan). The 1500-year-old pagoda is the oldest Buddhist Pagoda in Northeast China.   

Other Scenic Spots: Dahei Mountain, Youshun Temple, Hongshan Culture Site at Niuheliang

Travel Tips:
Chaoyang is about 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Shenyang. After completion of the Siping-Chengde highway project in the near future, the time between the two cities will be shortened from three to two hours.

Chaoyang Railway Station is in the Shuangta District, facing Youyi Dadao and Xinhua Lu. The long-distance bus station is near the railway station, in 19, the third section of Xinhua Lu.