Boston is in the continent of Massachusetts. It is also the capital city of this state.

Massachusetts

Overview

Boston is located in the northeastern part of the United States, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts Bay, and spanning the estuaries of the Charles and Mistletoe Rivers, and is the largest port city in New England and the capital of Massachusetts. Boston under the jurisdiction of 77 cities and towns, the city area of 124 square kilometers, the urban population of about 640,000 (including suburban convention 2.75 million).

Climate

Boston's climate is characterized by cold winters and mild, comfortable summers. The average temperature in January is -1.6°C, and the average temperature in July, when Boston was once the center of the anti-British independence movement in British North America, is 23.3°C. The average rainfall is 10,000 millimeters per year. The average annual rainfall is 1092 millimeters.

History

Boston was founded in 1630 and named after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, when the main inhabitants were English Puritans. Boston was the largest city in British North America until the mid-18th century, when it was overtaken by Philadelphia and New York. Historically, Boston was the center of the early anti-British independence movement in the U.S. The first shots of the American War of Independence were fired in Lexington and Concord, the western suburbs of Boston.

Economy

Boston has a well-developed economy, dominated by finance, banking, insurance, commerce and investment management, with the Federal Reserve Bank of New England, the financial and insurance center of the northeastern United States. Boston's major industries include food, clothing, printing and publishing, metal fabrication, and electronics and computers.

Transportation

Boston has a world-famous natural harbor, which can accommodate the largest passenger and cargo ships directly into the harbor, with an annual throughput of 12 to 20 million tons. Boston developed transportation, is the United States Central Railroad and Boston - Maine two railroads end, and another five interstate highway and the surrounding main village city connection. Within 3 kilometers of the city is Logan International Airport, with domestic and foreign 230 I city navigation, the annual flow of more than 30 million people.

Education

Boston is one of the most important cultural cities in the United States, the city has a lot of famous universities, research institutes and cultural and artistic organizations. 1635 Boston Public Schools and Harvard University, which was founded the following year, are the earliest schools in the United States. There are also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) founded in 1861, Boston University in 1869, Northeastern University in 1898, Suffolk University in 1906, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston College, Emerson College, Emmanuel College, and other prestigious institutions of higher learning.

The people of Boston have high cultural quality and cultivation, and college students account for one-third of the population. Boston enjoys the name of Athens of America.

Culture

Boston has many world-renowned cultural and artistic groups, such as the world-class Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera, Boston Public **** Library, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Natural History, Boston Children's Museum, New England Conservatory of Music and so on.

Sports began in 1897 with the Boston Marathon (standard marathon distance), which is held by the Boston Athletic Association on the third Monday in April. Since the 1980s, more than 5,000 athletes from around the world have competed in the race each year, and it has gained an international reputation in the sports world.

Medical

Boston is also one of the centers of medical care in the United States. Famous medical institutions include Massachusetts General Hospital, Children's Medical Center, New England Medical Center, Boston City Hospital, and the medical schools of Harvard University, Boston University and Tufts University.

Tourism

Boston's major historical attractions and early buildings include Farnall Hall, the Old Cornell Bookstore, the Old Soothsayers' Protocol Hall, King's Chapel, Crest Chapel, and Paul's Auditorium. There are also 33 parks and cultural facilities and beaches and islands for rest and recreation such as Boston Mass Park, Franklin Park, the Botanical Gardens, and the Aquarium.

Background of Twinning

In the early 1980's, the Mayor of Boston, Mr. Corwin White, called Mr. Li Yong, a representative of the city of Boston. Li Yong, the representative of Mayor of Boston, called Yang Shangkun, the then director of the Guangzhou Municipal Reform Commission, and invited him to attend the World Conference on Large Cities held in Boston on September 21 of the same year, and expressed his hope that Boston would be twinned as a friendly city.

On June 2, 1980, the National Friendship Association (80) Office No. 0510 requested the State Council to consider that Guangzhou was already developing a friendship city relationship with the U.S. city of Los Angeles, and that Guangzhou did not need to tie up with Boston as a friendship city from the development of the work of the friendship city at that time as well as from the characteristics of the cities of the two sides. Considering that the city of Boston is the older cultural city of the United States, and Hangzhou has **** the same point, it is recommended that after consulting the Boston side of the recommendation of Hangzhou and Boston to establish a friendship city relations.

July 30, 1980, Boston Mayor Co. White called Zhou Feng, Mayor of Hangzhou, inviting a delegation from Hangzhou to participate in the World Conference on Large Cities held in the city, and hoping that soon Boston and Hangzhou would form a friendship city.

September 21-27, 1980, the Hangzhou delegation headed by Zhou Feng, Acting Director of the Hangzhou Revolutionary Committee, was invited to visit Boston by the Mayor of Boston, Mr. Corwin White. White invited to visit Boston to participate in the World Conference on Large Cities held in Boston, and to discuss the conclusion of friendship city relations between Hangzhou and Boston.

January 12, 1981, the State Council (81) State Letter No. 1 letter to the Zhejiang Provincial Government, agreed to Hangzhou and Boston to create a friendly city relations, and agreed to the mayor of Boston visit to Hangzhou when the two cities signed the agreement on the relationship between the two friendly cities.

April 30 - May 4, 1982, at the invitation of the mayor of Hangzhou, Boston Mayor Kirkman White led a visit to China by the mayor of Boston. Boston Mayor Corwin White led a delegation of 32 people from Boston to visit Hangzhou. 16:00 on May 1, Hangzhou-Boston concluded a friendly city relationship agreement signing ceremony was held in Hangzhou Hotel auditorium, Hangzhou Mayor Zhou Feng and Boston Mayor Corwin White signed the agreement on behalf of the two municipal governments, respectively, on behalf of the two municipal governments. Mr. Zhou Feng, Mayor of Hangzhou, and Mr. Corwin White, Mayor of Boston, signed the agreement on behalf of the two municipalities.