Fuxin is a city built on coal.  From 1840 coal has been the lifeblood of this urban center.  The current population of Fuxin is 1.89 million people including 760,000 in the urban proper districts.  Fuxin transportation infrastructure has increased tremendously over the last ten years.  There are two main railway stations in the city and the average rail journey to the provincial capital of Shenyang takes approximately two hours.  There are numerous long-distance buses and coaches plying between Shenyang and Fuxin and the time needed for the journey is ever-decreasing thanks to the developing highway system.

Natural Resources
Fuxin has an abundant supply of natural resources including minerals, crops, and livestock. There are also significant supplies of silica, sand, cement, marble, and agate. Fuxin also produces a considerable amount of mineral water.  Fuxin leads the province in livestock production including sheep, beef production and pork production.  The forests surrounding Fuxin serve a key role in the sand-break effort and forestation as China attempts to halt the spread eastward of the Gobi Desert.

Culture and Education
Fuxin enjoys a thriving cultural environment with libraries, museums, theatres, academies and bookstores.  Fuxin has also been home to a few of China's writers and artists down through history.  Mass media are burgeoning in Fuxin and the surrounding areas with the Fuxin Daily News, the Fuxin People's Broadcasting Station, Fuxin Cable Television Station, Fuxin Mongolian Broadcasting Station and others.  There have also been great advances in the medical and health fields with more and more high-tech facilities available each year.  Those seeking the curative effects of traditional Mongolian medicine can also find practitioners with good reputations throughout China.

Fuxin is an educational center for the region with six institutions of higher learning, 21 technical schools, and 161 middle and primary schools.  The city enjoys a fine reputation for training engineers in the local universities.  Recent reforms in education policies and procedures will only serve to strengthen the solid educational base that already exists.

Haitang Mountain

Haitang Mountain National Forest Park which is marvellous for its groups of rare stone curved statues of Buddha mission from Tibet Fuxin is a missionary center of Tibetan Buddha in eastern part of China, so it is called "East Tibet". It is a compact community place for Mongolia nationality, so the feelings of culture and custom of the minor nationality are very strong.

Ruiying Temple

Ruiying temple is located in the Mongolian Autonomous County under the jurisdiction of Fuxin.  It is a Buddhist Lama temple.  Construction of the temple started in 1669 continued for 37 years.  The name of the temple is written in four scripts - Han, Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan.  In 1824 the Lama Zhashake was given an administrative authority by the emperor.  This temple has had a significant impact on Mongolian history.  It has been called the center of religion, medicine, and culture for the eastern part of Mongolia as well as "East Tibet".  The buildings include the main palace, Buddha's palace, and 5 temples surrounded by a road 6 km in circumference.  Along the road there are various natural and manmade stones called the "Numerous Buddhas".  There are 4 large courtyards, each serving as a place for study.  The largest number of monks to live on the temple is 3600.   Buddhist monks still practice there.

Chahai Relics

Chahai is the name of an archaeological site in China, near Fuxin in Liaoning Province, Manchuria, and belonging to the early Neolithic Xinglongwa culture. Dated between 5712-5530 BC, Chahai was a small (about eleven houses) early farming community, although only stone tools support this identification. Hypothesized to be the ancestors of the Hongshan (or Jade Dragon) culture.

(Hongshan culture: Late Neolithic period [4700-2920 B.C.] culture in China, primarily the Manchurian area including Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia; known for ceremonial complexes, jade, coper, perhaps bronze working. )

These ruins lie 2.5 km southwest of Chahai Village which is under the jurisdiction Fuxin 25km away.  The ruins are an open terrain surrounded by mountains.   The world's oldest jade articles and China's earliest stone-laid dragon designs were excavated there.  A 19.7 meter dragon is believed to be 8,000 years old.  Jade ware, pottery, and other cultural relics form the foundations of the "Jade Dragon Culture" at Red Mountain.