Lichuan ( Chinese : 利川 市 ; pinyin : Lìchuān ) is a county-level city of the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture , in southwestern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, located 52 kilometres (32 mi) west of Enshi City , the prefecture seat. It borders Chongqing Municipality to the southwest, west, and north. It has 750,670 inhabitants.
6-700: Lichuan railway station is a railway station in Lichuan City , Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture , Hubei Province of the People's Republic of China . It is an important junction point on the Huhanrong Passenger Dedicated Line , which crosses China from Shanghai on the east coast to Chongqing and Chengdu in the central province of Sichuan . Here the Yuli Railway (the branch from Lichuan to Chongqing) joins with
12-569: Is estimated to consist of around 5,400 trees. Outside of Lichuan, a few trees are also said to exist in the Hunan Province. The Tenglong Cave is located within a few miles from Lichuan. There are two subdistricts , seven towns , and five townships under the city's administration: Two subdistricts: Seven towns: Five townships: China National Highway 318 runs through Lichuan on its way from Enshi to Wanzhou , Chongqing . G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway also passes to
18-555: The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University sent an expedition to Lichuan to collect seeds and, soon after, seedling trees were distributed to various universities and arboreta worldwide for growth trials. Presently, a number of natural Metasequoia populations exist in the hills and wetlands of Lichuan. Most of these groups are small, with fewer than 30 trees each; however, the largest of them, in Xiaohe Valley,
24-653: The Yiwan Railway (the Yichang to Wanzhou section of the Huhanrong mainline). This article about a railway station in Hubei is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lichuan City Lichuan is believed to be the location of most (if not all) of the naturally growing Metasequoia glyptostroboides trees in existence. The genus Metasequoia , related to the giant redwoods of North America,
30-693: The south of the city centre. Until the opening of the Yiwan Railway in 2010, there were no railways in Lichuan (or anywhere in Enshi Prefecture). Now Lichuan Station has regular service to Chengdu , Wuhan , and points beyond. In the future, Lichuan will become a junction where the future Yuli Railway (the line from Lichuan toward Chongqing ) will join the Yiwan Railway mainline (from Yichang via Lichuan to Wanzhou, with further connections to Chengdu ). Proposals have also been made for
36-666: Was first described as a fossil from the Mesozoic Era in 1941. But in 1943 a small stand of an unidentified tree was discovered in Modaoxi ( 磨刀溪 ), presently known as Moudao ( 谋道 ) Town, in Lichuan County, by Zhan Wang. After the end of the World War II , this tree species was officially described as the only living species of Metasequoia , and given the scientific name Metasequoia glyptostroboides . In 1948
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