Shangzhi
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Shangzhi (Chinese: 尚志市; Hanyu Pinyin: shàngzhì shì) is a county-level city located in the southeast of Heilongjiang province, in China. It is 124 kilometres away from the provincial capital Harbin and has an area of approximately 9,000 square kilometres. Its population is approximately 600,000.
The city of Shangzhi was once called Zhuhe (珠河). It was developed during the years of Emperor Guangxu in the late Qing dynasty, and was renamed to Shangzhi to commemorate the anti-Japanese war hero Zhao Shangzhi in 1946.
The most famous place in Shangzhi is the Yabuli (亚布力 yàbùlì) Skiing Centre - the largest in Asia and 3rd largest in the world.
[edit] Famous people
- Zhao Shangzhi, anti-Japan war hero
- Zhao Yiman, anti-Japan war heroine
- Liu Qing, captain of Women's Basketball National Team in the 1980s
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