Shifang

Shifang, previously Shifang County, is a county-level metropolis in Sichuan, China under the municipal administration of Deyang. It is placed approximately 50 kilometers from Chengdu. It had a place of 863 km2 and a populace of 430,000 in 2004. Shifang has a records stretching back over two thousand years. It suffered heavy damage for the duration of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The town turned into additionally the scene of a large-scale environmental protest towards a copper smelting plant in July 2012. The vicinity of gift-day Shifang formed part of Western Qiang, one of the regions that appear in historical Chinese facts as the birthplace of the famed usurper Yu the Great.

The local tourism board has pressed the that he turned into specially born in Shifang, however comparable claims are made with the aid of Beichuan, Wenchuan, and Dujiangyan in Sichuan, in addition to many other places in different components of China. Shifang become one of the most significantly hit cities within the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, with a dying toll of 5924. Many of those killed have been kids, with 13 school homes completely collapsing in Hongbai, Yinghua, Luoshui, Jiandi, Bajiao, and other cities and dozens of other faculties partly collapsing during the county.