Yaan

Ya'an is a prefecture-degree metropolis in the western part of Sichuan province, China, located simply underneath the Tibetan Plateau. Previously called Yazhou-fu, the city is first mentioned at some point of the Zhou Dynasty. It served as a county seat for the duration of the Qin and Han Dynasties, however was subsequently taken via nomadic tribes. After being reintegrated into the Chinese Empire in the past due 5th century, it turned into made the seat of the Ya Prefecture in 604. The contemporary Ya'an county changed into set up in 1912.

It have become the provincial capital of Xikang province in 1951, but has been a municipality under the administration of Sichuan province considering the fact that 1955, while Xikang province was merged and have become part of Sichuan province. The first large panda was observed in Baoxing County of Ya'an; Ya'an is also the foundation of synthetic planting tea of the arena; Mengding Mountain in Mingshan County, has been keeping seven tea trees, which are believed to be the origins of tea, for greater than 1,000 years.