Luzhou

Luzhou, previously transliterated as Lu-chou or Luchow, is a prefecture-level town placed within the southeast of Sichuan Province, China. The metropolis, named Jiangyang until the Southern and Northern Dynasties, is known as the "wine city". Situated at the confluence of the Tuo River and the Yangtze River, Luzhou isn't simplest an crucial port on the Yangtze river, but additionally the most important port in each size and output in Sichuan province when you consider that Chongqing seceded from Sichuan province in 1997.

At the 2010 census its populace become 4,218,427 inhabitants whom 919,832 lived within the built-up place made of Jiangyang and Longmatan districts, as Naxi district isn't conurbated yet. Luzhou, which borders Yunnan, Guizhou and Chongqing, is the best geographic junction of the 4 provinces, and became therefore the logical area for a port in historical China. After the PRC become based in 1949, Luzhou became the capital of southern Sichuan province.

In 1983, Luzhou changed into authorised as a prefecture-degree town administratively. Luzhou turned into included into the Ba kingdom early inside the Shang and Zhou length, inside the 11th century BC. In 316 BC, in the course of the Warring States period, King Huiwen of Qin established Ba prefecture, which included maximum of Luzhou, after he conquered the states of Ba and Shu.