As the 10th Asian Art Festival will open on September 26 in Zhengzhou, local authorities expect it to also show the city's brilliant civilization and recent advancements in culture and other social and economic fields.

Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province in the center of the country, covers 7,446 sq km and has a population of 7.36 million people.

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The 294 sq km central urban area of the city has 3.54 million residents.

It has six districts, five cities, one county, two State-level development zones and one State-level export processing zone under its administration.

It is one of China's most famed historic cities and a well-known tourism destination due to its ancient civilization and Songshan Mountain World Geopark.

The city was a cradle of Chinese civilization, with unearthed relics indicating it was the center of human activity some 8,000 years ago.