Liaoyang is adjacent to Liaodong Mountain in the east and Liaohe Plain in the west. The Taizi River flows into the Bohai Sea in the eastern and northern suburbs.
Liaoyang is the earliest city in the northeast of China and an ancient cultural city with a history of more than 2,400 years. From 3rd century BC to17th century, it has always been the political, economic, cultural center, transportation hub and military center of northeast China.
Liaoyang is now one of the cities under the jurisdiction of Liaoning 14, the sub-central city of Shenyang Economic Zone, an emerging modern petrochemical textile industrial base and an excellent tourist city in China.