Its principal tributary is the Hun River, which flows into the Liao not far above its mouth and drains the foothills of the Liaodong Peninsula and Changbai Mountains, passing through Shenyang (Mukden) in Liaoning province.
They created a replica of the Ming central government apparatus in their new capital, Mukden (present-day Shenyang), established in 1625.
By the end of 1945 the Nationalists had positioned some of their best U.S.-trained armies in southern Manchuria as far north as Mukden (present-day Shenyang), a strategic rail centre to which Nationalist troops were transported by air.
During the Xi (Western) Han period, a county called Houcheng was set up in the area of what is now Shenyang.
As his train neared Mukden (present-day Shenyang), Zhang died in an explosion arranged by a few Japanese officers without the knowledge of the Japanese government.
In a project that covers several parts of arid and semi-arid China Beijing, Hebei, Qingdao and Shenyang, as well as the Hai basin and the smaller Turpan basin the World Bank has been promoting water conservation.
In March 2003, BMW, a German carmaker, established a euro150m ($160m) joint venture with Brilliance, a state-controlled company in Shenyang, to produce saloon cars.
As Omega watches cost more than $1,000, those buyers must be members of a wealthy elite who still think the watches display their owner's status, despite the prevalence of replicas.Omega opened its first mainland store not in one of the booming coastal cities but in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province in the decaying industrial north-east.
It is the true story of a false bombing, plotted by the Japanese against a Japanese-owned railway near the north-eastern city of Shenyang as a pretext for the invasion of much of China.
An employee of a state media outlet by day, at night he tries to debunk viral falsehoods using a Dell computer in his apartment in Shenyang, in China's north-east.
But Mr Li believes that in the north-eastern city of Shenyang, where unemployment is high, elections have helped to prevent large-scale unrest: "Giving more power to the people is good.
