the Southern Sichuan Bamboo Sea Characterized by bamboo scenery, the Southern Sichuan Bamboo Sea is a “Chinas National Scenic Spot“, one of “the 40 Best Tourist Attractions“, a “Chinese Biospheric Protection Zone“, “the First AAAA Class Tourist Attaction“. It locates in the southwest Liantian Mountains Which border the Changning County and Jiangan County of Yibin City, and covers an area of 120 square kilometers with an elevation from 600 to 1000.2 meters. In its central region, more than 5000 hectares of big tall and upright bamboo (Pronounced in Chinese as Nanzhu, spelled Phyllostachys Mazelexh. de Lehaie in Latin) shelters 28 ridges and peaks high and low, 500 hills big and small. Bamboo grows in the fields at different levels and in the mountains and hills that stretches long and far. The place seems like a misty vast green sea. Hence comes the name of “Bamboo Sea“. The Southern Sichuan Bamboo Sea, one of the most beautiful land of happiness given by the nature, with many cultural relics and historic sites screened by green bamboo, is a fresh and clear back garden of Yibin City. A tour to the beautiful and elegant Bamboo Sea is a tour to the splendid bamboo culture of long history, a tour more mysterious and interesting, far from the mortal world. There are some fragmentary precious plants, some special local animals and many valuable fungi besides its beautiful, ancient natural landscape and wonderful cultural relics in Bamboo Sea. According to the statistics, in many kinds of plants, the plant Spiniclose Tree Ferm-“the live fossel in the earth“-aslo called ferm has the same prosperous period as dinosaur which are prosperous in the Carboniferous Period of the Palaeozoic Era about 350 million years ago. It can only be seen in some rare area in the world, it exists a few in Sichuan, Yunan, Guizhou etc., and it has been protected as the national first class plant. It is the “Live Specimen“ which is used to study the relationship between papaeobotany and palaeoclinatilogy, palaeogeography, Palaeogeology, it aslo plays an impotant part in studying the evolution process of the plants and the transmutation of the crust. The special demeanour exists in Bamboo Sea, it has the sole animal-xylophone Frog which is shorter than the common frogs with the green bottom and white “frog dress“, the “xylophone Frogs“ reveals their pink tender flesh on their chests and belly and are very lovely. They are the singers in the Bamboo Sea, and the high-technology “Stringed Istrumentalists“ who can sing “Dong-dong-dong-tong“, “Duo-mi-duo-duo“, in which the acoustic fidelity sounds like wooden piano, and the acoustic fidelity are five scales in common, some even are six to seven scales, the melody is very good which makes the Bamboo Sea more poetic charm. The first city on the Yangtze River-Yibin city, with rich resources,special regional advantages,and wide development prospects, will be constructed to be an important hub of communications and a commercial centre at the juncture of three provinces of Sichuan,Yunnan and Guizhou, an ideal growth point in the western regions of the Yangtze River Economic Zone, a regionally centrical city in the West of China. We would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of Yibin Municipal Party Committee,Yibin Municipal Peoples Govenment,and 5 million people in Yibin to warmly welcome you to Yibin, going forward hand in hand, and taking a prosperous,civilized,and opening Yibin into the brilliant and magnificent 21st century.