【正文】 The Yellow Crane Tower (Huanghelou) is presumed to have been first built in approximately 220 AD. The tower has been destroyed and reconstructed numerous times, was burned last according to some sources in 1884. The tower underwent plete reconstruction in 1981. The reconstruction utilized modern materials and added an elevator, while maintaining the traditional design in the tower39。 The Rock and Bonsai Museum includes a mounted platybelodon skeleton, many unique stones, a quartz crystal the size of an automobile, and an outdoor garden with miniature trees in the penjing (Chinese Bonsai) style.s fourth international hub airport after Beijing Capital International Airport, ShanghaiPudong and Guangzhou Baiyun. A second terminal was pleted in March 2008, having been started in February 2005 with an investment of billion.[edit] Highway in Chinese terminology). It runs from Huangpu to Zongguan in the downtown area of the Hankou District, and it is the first one in the country to use a municationbased train control system (a Moving Block signalling system, provided by Alcatel). The designed minimum interval is only 90 seconds between two trains and it features driverless operation.[7] Phase 2 of this line will extend the length to km/h (s eastern suburbs (connecting the Hongshan District with the Xinzhou District). It was opened on December 26, 2007.The Wuhan Tianxingzhou Yangtze River Bridge crosses the Yangtze in the northeastern part of the city, downstream of the Second bridge. Its name is due to the Tianxing Island (Tianxingzhou), above which it crosses the river. Built at the cost of 11 billion yuan, the 4,657meter cable suspension bridge was opened on December 26, 2009,[4] in time for the opening of the Wuhan Railway Station. It is a bined road and rail bridge, and carries the Wuhan–Guangzhou HighSpeed Railway across the river.[edit] RailwayThe old Dazhimen Station (大智門火車站), the original Hankou terminus of the BeijingHankou Railway. Constructed in 19001903, it was closed in 1991, after the opening of the present Hankou Railway StationUntil the late 2009, the city proper in Wuhan was served by two major railway stations, namely the Hankou Railway Station in Hankou and the Wuchang Railway Station in Wuchang. As a result, the railway system in China actually did not have a unique designation for the name Wuhan, and trains heading to Wuhan are marked with the respective borough39。 it is 4,678 meters in length (including 1,877 meters of the main bridge) and to meters in width. Its main bridgeheads are 90 meters high each, pulling 392 thick slanting cables together in the shape of double fans, so that the central span of the bridge is well poised on the piers and the bridge39。176。km2, most of which is plain and decorated with hills and a great number of lakes and pools.Wuhan39。41′115176。m (3,m (s top four trading towns.Wuhan Custom House, opened in 1862In the late 19th century railroads were extended on a northsouth axis through this city, which then became an important transshipment point between rail and river traffic. At this time foreign powers extracted mercantile concessions, with the riverfront of Hankou being divided up into various foreign controlled merchant districts. These districts contained trading firm offices, warehouses, and docking facilities.In 1911, Sun Yatsen39。s Republic of China, and is the most populous city in central China. It lies at the east of Jianghan Plain, and the intersection of the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han River. Arising out of the conglomeration of three boroughs, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, Wuhan is known as the nine provinces39。n。WuhanWuhan (simplified Chinese: 武漢。 Mandarin pronunciation: leading thoroughfare。s followers launched the Wuchang Uprising that led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei, in opposition to Chiang Kaishek during the 1920s.In 1938, Wuhan and the surrounding region became the battlefield of the Battle of Wuhan, a major conflict in the Second SinoJapanese War. After being taken by the Japanese in 1938, Wuhan became a major Japan