Banan District.

Banan is one of the nine central districts of Chongqing and was Ba County until December 1994, when the county was abolished and the district set up. It lies south of the Yangtze, and its land is 62.27 percent hill, 32.99 percent low mountain and only 4.64 percent flat, running from 154 metres at Ranjiawan in Majiuzui up to 1,132.60 metres on Fangdou Mountain in Shitan. During the war, when the Yuzhong peninsula was bombed flat, the National Government's actual seat was here. The Wubu River and more than ten other streams cross it, geothermal water is drawn at Dongquan, Nanquan and Qiaokouba, and the district's national key cultural relic is the Nanquan wartime site group.

Banan District

Fengsheng: the town that names a range

Nine villages, a bridge, a street and an oil press, in a district where only 4.64 percent of the land is flat.

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Mudong: the water post at the river junction

Two old buildings at the meeting of the Yangtze and the Wubu, and the post-station system they now explain.

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Nanquan: the wartime retreat south of the river

The houses across the Yangtze where the government worked while the peninsula was bombed, and the 1949 battle named for the same valley.

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Places

Fengsheng Ancient Town

The hill town of Banan that gives its name to one of the district's eleven ranges.

Mudong Ancient Town

The water-post town where the Wubu meets the Yangtze, with China's first museum devoted to the water post.

Nanquan

The hot-spring town south of the river, where the wartime government's residences and a 1949 battle sit together.

Photo credits and rights

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