Human beings cultivated, fished and hunted here to live and multiply here, then the Culture of Xinle was created.

The key town in Yan State

After unifying the whole China, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty divided China into 36 counties. Shenyang belonged to Liaodong County.

Shenyang had formed the outline of city and was named to be “Houcheng”.

It was renamed to be “Shen Zhou”.

The first emperor of Liao State immigrated here. Production developed with the construction of clay castle.

The first emperor of Jin State attacked and occupied Shen Zhou and continued to use the name of “Shen Zhou”. 

Yuan Dynasty rebuilt the clay castle and renamed Shen Zhou to Shenyang Road, which is governed by Liaoyang. Since Shenyang is located at the north of Shen Water (Liaohe River), Shen Zhou was renamed to Shenyang according to Chinese traditional direction theory, i.e. the north of hill was called Yin, the north of water was called Yang. Since then, the name of Shenyang officially occurred in the historical materials, which has a history of 702 years up to now.

Ming Dynasty renamed “Shenyang Road” to “Shenyang Zhongwei”.

The first emperor of Qing Dynasty Nurharchi moved its capital from Liaoyang to Shenyang and started to construct imperial palace in Shenyang town (the current Shenyang Palace Museum).

The second emperor of Qing Dynasty Huangtaiji renamed Shenyang to be “Shengjing”.

After Qing Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, Shenyang became its alternate capital.

Qing Dynasty set up Fengtian government office in accordance with the meaning of “On the order of the heaven, receiving heaven's mandate”, Shenyang was also known for “Fengtian”.

After the Revolution of 1911, Shenyang became the capital of Feng system warlord government.

Fengtian Municipal Administration Office was founded officially and the municipal system appeared in Shenyang for the first time.

After “changing flag in the Northeast”, Zhang Xueliang changed “Fengtian city’ to be “Shenyang city”.

Japanese imperialists launched “9.18 Incident”, invaded and occupied Shenyang city and changed ‘Shenyang city” to be “Fengtian city”. 

The anti-Japanese war succeeded, “Fengtian city” was restored to be “Shenyang city”

Shenyang was officially liberated.

Shenyang was changed to be the municipality directly under the Central Government.

Shenyang was changed to be governed by Liaoning Province.

Liaoning Province Committee of the CPC decided to set up Shenyang prefecture.

Faku County and Kangping County formerly under the jurisdiction of Tieling City were transferred to Shenyang; Xinmin County was replaced by Xinmin City.

Shenyang governs nine urban districts of Heping, Shenhe, Dadong, Huanggu, Tiexi, Yuhong, Sujiatun, Dongling and Xingchengzi and four counties (cities) of Xinmin, Liaozhong, Faku and Kangping.