Kangding, a world-famous historical and cultural city; A happy mountain, famous in five continents and four seas; A song "Kangding Love Song" was a swan song, which intoxicated the whole world.
Kangding city has a long and splendid history and culture. It is the throat of Sichuan and Tibet, the important town of the ancient tea-horse road, and the intersection center of Tibet and Han. Since ancient times, it has been the political, economic, cultural, commercial, information center and transportation hub of Kangba Tibetan area. The whole city covers an area of 1. 1.6 million square kilometers, and is a city dominated by Tibetans, with Han, Hui, Yi, Qiang and other ethnic groups living together.
Comrade Zhu Rongji, the former Prime Minister of the State Council, came here and called it "the overseas fairy mountain, the holy land of Penglai". Kangding is a Chinese name, so it got its name because it means "Kang" to the east of Dandan Mountain, which means "Kang and stability". In Tibetan, Kangding is called "Gengzhe", which means the intersection of Daqu (Yalong River) and Zheduo River. The old history was translated as "fried furnace" and later as "arrow furnace", referred to as furnace city for short.