Li
Po's Birthplace
Authored by K.Price and A.Jenkins
Sichuan
is the home of the giant panda and golden-haired monkey.
It's
climate is subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate in the eastern lowlands
with frequent fog; temperate-subtropical highland climate in the west,
with a lot of sunlight but low temperatures. Sichuan's physical features
consist of a basin in the east, plateau in the west, mountain in
thecentral south, highland swamps in the central north. Known as the Sichuan
Basin, the eastern lowlands are closed off by mountains and plateaus on
all sides. The drainage basin is crossed by the Yangtze River and is rich
with red soil. Sichuan has many mountians. They are...
Minshan, Longmen, Micang, and Daba Mountains in the north, Wushan
Mountain in the east; Shaluli, Qionglai, and the Daxue Mountains in the
west. Most of the products of Sichuan are rice, corn, sweet potatoes,
wheat, sorghum, rape, sugar cane, peanuts, tea, ramie, silk cocoons, cotton,
jute, ambary hemp, sun-cured tobacco; tung oil, camphor, Chinese tallow
trees, raw lacquer, white wax; silver fungus, bulb of fritillary, bamboo,
oranges, tangerines, pears,yangtao, lychees, longans, bananas. There
minerals are iron, coal, managnese, natural gas, petroleum, salt, alluvial
gold, copper, nickel, phosphorus, sulphur, and mica.