Anshan

Anshan is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province in northeastern China, about 92 kilometres south of the provincial capital Shenyang. It is the third most populous city of Liaoning, with 3,325,372 residents at the 2020 census across an administrative area of roughly 9,270 square kilometres. The name refers to a mountain south of the city whose outline resembles a horse saddle. Anshan is above all a steel city: it is home to the Anshan Iron and Steel Group, one of the largest steel producers in the world, and it grew around that industrial site through the twentieth century, becoming a key centre of China's heavy industry after 1949. The surrounding region also holds a large share of the world's talc and of China's magnesite reserves, and the city is twinned with Sheffield in the United Kingdom.