About Shenyang

Shenyang highlited in Green on China Map

The City of Shenyang, China

Beautiful White Shenyang

Emperor's Palace in Shenyang

Capital of Liaoning Province and the largest city in the northeast of China, Shenyang is a city steeped in history. In 1625, Shenyang became Shenjing, the new capital city of Manchuria. It was here that Nuerhachi build his imperial palace and here in Yongling Tomb, that he sleeps. His son is also buried in the city in Dongling's Zhouling tomb, these being the first two imperial tombs of the Qing dynasty of China. The imperial palace and the two tombs are all listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. It was in Shenyang, on September 18th, 1931 that the Mukden incident ignited a war between China and Japan that would see the Japanese occupation of all of Northeast China. This city was also the home to the warlord Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang who ruled over the Northeast during the 1920's. The later 20th century saw Shenyang develop as a major industrial centre. Today the city is rapidly modernising with large scale construction throughout the city.