In 2009, a Chinese manufacturer, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, announced that it would acquire Hummer, pending government approvals, but later withdrew its bid.

There were reports that Sichuan Tengzhong might pursue the purchase of the Hummer brand from GM by purchasing it privately through the company's new J & A Tengzhong Fund SPC, a private equity investment fund owned by an offshore entity that was recruiting private investors to buy into its acquisition plan.

Sichuan is colloquially known as the " heavenly country " due to its abundance of food and natural resources.

Due to its original usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, the Hakka language has developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island, Singapore and Taiwan.

When the army resumed its march northward, the direct route to Sichuan was blocked by Chiang's forces.

* In 2006, Sichuan Province China experienced its worst drought in modern times with nearly 8 million people and over 7 million cattle facing water shortages.

Ba included the land in eastern Sichuan along the Yangtze and some tributary streams, while Shu included today Chengdu, its surrounding plain and adjacent territories in western Sichuan.

The Second Sino-Japanese War was soon followed by the resumed Chinese Civil War, and the cities of East China fell to the Communists one after another, the Kuomintang government again tried to make Sichuan its stronghold on the mainland.

As wars between Qin and Chu ensued, Chu lost more and more land: first its dominance over the Sichuan Basin, then ( in 278 BC ) its heartland, which correspond to modern Hubei.

Cayenne is used in cooking spicy dishes, as a powder or in its whole form ( such as in Korean, Sichuan and other Asian cuisine ), or in a thin, vinegar-based sauce.

This prompted mass migration from Sichuan, Hunan and its surrounding provinces into Guizhou.

Qin increased its control of the local tribes and began its expansion southwest to Sichuan.

In the 1930s its importance grew still further when the first highways were built, linking Kunming with Chongqing in Sichuan and Guiyang in Guizhou to the east.

Sichuan has been historically known as the " province of abundance " due to its agricultural prowess.

Yang was born to a land-owning family in Shuangjiang, Tongnan County, near the city of Chongqing in Sichuan, and studied at Chengdu Higher Normal School and its affiliated secondary school in 1920 – 25, and then returned to Chongqing.

Despite having a later start than his rivals and lacking both the material resources and social status they commanded, Liu Bei overcame his many defeats to carve out his own realm, which at its peak spanned modern day Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, part of Hubei and part of Gansu.

However, its reporting in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was seen in as more transparent and credible as Xinhua journalists operated more freely.

With the rebel forces clearly an imminent threat to the imperial seat of Chang ' an, and with conflicting advice from his advisers, Tang emperor Xuanzong determined to flee to the relative sanctuary of Sichuan, with its natural protection of ranges of mountains, which would allow for the Tang forces to reorganize and regroup.

The name of the city means " north of the sea " in Chinese, signifying its status as a seaport on the north shore of the Gulf of Tonkin, which has granted it historical importance as a port of international trade for Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.

True to its Sichuan roots, the desired taste should be both spicy and mouth-numbing.

At its establishment, it was one of the four earliest language schools in the People's Republic of China （ the other three located at Beijing, Shanghai and Sichuan ）, and the only one that teaches most foreign languages in Northwest China.

In 934, Sichuan again asserted independence.

On November 22, Chengdu and Sichuan began to declare independence.

Sichuan ( spelled Szechuan in the once common Postal Romanization ), is a style of Chinese cuisine originating in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China famed for bold flavors, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavour of the Sichuan peppercorn ( 花椒, huājiāo ) and zhitianjiao ( 指天椒, zhǐtiānjiāo ).

The earliest known depiction of a gun is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan, dating to the 12th century that portrays a figure carrying a vase-shaped bombard, firing flames and a ball.

Deng was born into an ethnically Hakka Han family in Paifang village ( 牌坊村 ), Xiexing township ( 协兴镇 ), Guang ' an County in Sichuan province, approximately 160 km from Chongqing ( formerly spelled Chungking ).

The earliest depiction of a firearm is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan, China.

In 1942, Jiao Juyin directed the play in a Confucian temple in Sichuan Province, to which the government had retreated from the advancing Japanese.

Speakers of forms of Mandarin other than the standard typically refer to the variety they speak by a geographic name — for example Sichuan dialect, Hebei dialect or Northeastern dialect, all being regarded as distinct from the standard language.

The effective population size of the Sichuan population is larger and more stable than that of the Yunnan population, implying a southward expansion from Sichuan to Yunnan.

The main origins of the migrants are Anhui ( 29. 0 %), Jiangsu ( 16. 8 %), Henan ( 8. 7 %), and Sichuan ( 7. 0 %) provinces, and 79 % are from rural areas.

Szechuan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, or Szechwan cuisine ( or ) is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province in southwestern China.

It has bold flavours, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chilli peppers, as well as the unique flavour of the Sichuan pepper.

Traditional Chinese food can be found in Taiwan, alongside Fujian and Hakka-style as well as native Taiwanese dishes, includes dishes from Guangdong, Jiangxi, Chaoshan, Shanghai, Hunan, Sichuan and Beijing.

Also found in Sichuan, from the late Han dynasty ( c 25 – 220 CE ) is another tree of life.

** Sichuan pepper, produced from the fruit of several Zanthoxylum species

* Only 4 of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols under Ögedei.

The highest species diversity is found in the Himalayas from Uttarakhand, Nepal and Sikkim to Yunnan and Sichuan, with other significant areas of diversity in the mountains of Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Besides employing Xianbei and other Chinese ethnic groups for the fight against Chen, Emperor Wen also employed the service of aborigines from southeastern Sichuan, a people that Sui had recently conquered.

In 588 CE, the Sui had amassed 518, 000 troops along the northern bank of the Yangtze River, stretching from Sichuan to the Pacific Ocean.

* Winter – Sima Yan, Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, launches the Jin offensive and attacks along the Yangzi River from Jianye to Jiangling whilst the Sichuan fleet sails downriver to the Jing province.

So it is absent in the dry regions of Mongolia from 44 – 46 ° N southward, in China westward of Sichuan and in India north of the Himalaya.