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- Kaifeng -

Kaifeng City is located in the central region of China, in the eastern part of Henan Province, in the hinterland of the Central Plains, on the banks of the Yellow River, and adjacent to Zhengzhou to the west. Kaifeng Free Trade Zone is one of the three major zones of China (Henan) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The largest local opera genre in China, Yu Opera, originated here. Kaifeng has 11 national 5A and 4A level tourist attractions and 24 national key cultural relics protection units with 27 items. The Qingming Festival and Chrysanthemum Culture Festival in Kaifeng, China attract numerous tourists from home and abroad.

Kaifeng City is one of the first national historical and cultural cities and an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. It has a history of more than 4100 years of city and capital construction, including the Xia Dynasty, the Wei State during the Warring States period, the Later Liang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou during the Five Dynasties period, the Song Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty. It is known as the "ancient capital of eight dynasties" and has given birth to the "Song culture" that has inherited the Han and Tang dynasties, initiated the Ming and Qing dynasties, and had a profound influence. Kaifeng was the central city of the Maritime Silk Road during the Northern Song Dynasty and the eastern starting point of the Land Silk Road. Since the Song Dynasty, successive dynasties have regarded Kaifeng as the regional political, economic, and cultural center of northern China. Kaifeng is the only capital city in the world where the central axis of the city has never changed, and the ruins of Chengdui City are rare in the history of world archaeology and capital cities. The capital city of the Song Dynasty, Dongjing City, was the world's largest city at that time and the birthplace of the Qingming Riverside Scene.