park that started it all overHefei, well known both at home and abroad as "a historic site famous from the Three Kingdoms Period and the hometown of Lord Bao", is a city with a history of more than 2000 years. As early as 206 B.C. or so, between Qin and Han Dynasties, Hefei County was established. During the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it was under the jurisdiction of Luzhou with Hefei as the seat of the government. Therefore, Luzhou is another name of Hefei. Now Hefei has become the political, economic, cultural and financial center of Anhui Province and also a major science and education base, and a future hub of railway transportation.
Notable people
Bao Zheng (999 - 1062), --- Northern Song Dynasty bureaucrat and judge whose name has become synonymous with juridical wisdom and uprightness
Li Hongzhang (1823 - 1901), --- prominent late Qing Dynasty bureaucrat and diplomat
Chen Ning Yang, (b. 1922), --- 1957 Nobel Physics Prize laureate, one of the two earliest Chinese to receive the prize
