Sichuan Province

　Sichuan is one of the largest provinces in china,and the most heavily populated.It couvers an area of 485,00 square km and boasts the third largest population in China,after Henan and Shandong Provinces.It has 85-million people.Its population displays as much diversity as its landscape.the whole province is occupied by 53 Chinese nationalities.the main nationalities consist of Han, Tibetan,Yi,Qiang,Hui,Miao and others.

　Sichuan adjoins the Tibetan Plateau in the West and the Yangtze River in the east.the eastern section supports the densest rural population; the western section rises in giant steps to the Tibetan Plateau Where the windswept grassland and deeper forests are home of Tibetans and Qiang.

　the Chinese often refer Sichuan as the "Tianfu Zhiguo",It means,"Land of Abundanse" or"Heavenly Kingdom".It refers to the province`s abundance of natural recourses, cultural heritage and local product.Sichuan became famous during the warring states period when engineer LiBing somehow corralled the Min river on the Chuanxin plain with his weir system,allowing Sichuan some 2200 continuous years of irrigation and prosperity.