fuzhou attractions Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/fuzhou-attractions Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Travel to Fuzhou http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-fuzhou.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-fuzhou.html#respond Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:08:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=230524 Fuzhou lies on the Minjian river in the east of Fujian province and some 50km/30 miles from the sea, at 119°18’E and 26°06’N. The town can be reached by rail or air from Beijing, Shanghai, Canton, Tianjin and Hangzhou. Fuzhou has a past stretching back more than 2000 years. In 202 b.c. it was the capital ofthe Yue kingdom and in the 10th c. ofthe Min kingdom. It was given its present name in 725. Fuzhou is known as “Banyan Town” because ofthe subtropical banyan trees planted during the Song period (960-1279). Since that time overseas trade has developed more

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