Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province, China, has been an open city from the ancient time. Far from the establishment of "Silk Road" in the north of China, the Chengduee had arrived in India via Yunnnan Burma, then got to the Middle Asia and Europe, the route of which was called "South Silk Road". That composed a great writings in the history of opening to the outside world. Integrated by ancient civilization and modern advance, Chengdu is laden with enormous potentiality and vital force.

A lot of people carry tea jars¨Cplastic pop-top containers with tea leaves and water, neither hot nor cold¨Can accessory that would become as ubiquitous as bicycles in China's "fourth city" and beyond. Rush hour is not marked so much by vehicular traffic as by the profusion of office-casual riders maneuvering around and about taxis, tour buses, and the relatively few passenger cars. Pedicabs reign as the preferred means of quick, short-distance transport.

The haze in Chengdu is pervasive. It is said that if a dog sees the sun, he will bark at the intruder. Days free of the haze are rare. The low plain, moist air, and constant agricultural enterprise conspire to cloak this region in a consistent overcast gray-gray like the soil, the sand, and the earthen structures in the Old City.

Population and Geography
Located in the hinterland of the famous "The Land of Abundance" of the southwest China, Chengdu is not only an open inland city of China, but also a cultural city boasting of history of more than 2,300 years, with 12300 square kilometers areas and over 10,000,000 populations. Its circumjacent region is the major habitat for the world rare animal-panda.

Industry and Human resources
Today's Chengdu, as the political, economic and cultural center of Sichuan Province, has formed various and complete industrial systems including mechanics, electronics, medicine, metallurgy, chemics, cotton and foodstuff. It was rated as "The Science and Technological Center, the commodity & trade center, the finance center and the transportation & communication hinge" of China by State Council in 1993. When it comes to human resource, it owns 440,000 technicians, among which 32% having semi-senior and above professional titles; its proportion of possessing 253 technicians among each 1000 staff and workers comes out top in the metropolises of China. Thus it has good advantages and well technical developing capacity in the advanced and new technological fields of electronics, biology, new technology, new material, optics, optical fiber communication, nuclear and laser technology, etc.

Education
Having more than 20 colleges and universities with 810,000 aprox. Students and over 2,500 science research and technological development institutes, Chengdu's advances in science, technology and education have been contributing greater and greater to China's national economic growth year by year.