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Longyan prefecture in western Fujian stretches for 19,000 square kilometers,
accounting for 15.7 percent of Fujian's total area, and has a population
of 2.692 million. It is suitable for tourism throughout the year.
Western Fujian has a long history. Some 4,000 years ago. people
of the Yue tribe came to settle there. The prefecture was a well-
known revolutioary base in western Fujian. As early as the 1930s,
noted leaders of the Chinese Communist Party including Mao Zedong,
Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Ye Jianying, and Deng Xiaoping
all carried out revolutionary activities there.
Western Fujian is one of China's three principal forest regions,
and it has various tree species and vegetation, boasting one fifth
of Fujian's standing timber and a tree cover of 63 percent. |
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