Yongchuan district, located in western Chongqing on the north bank of the Yangtze River, is a melting pot of Chengdu-Chongqing culture. Ba (Sichuan) and Shu (Chongqing) cultures gather together in Yongchuan along with a vibrant regional culture that encompasses "billion-year-old dinosaur fossils, million-year-old club mosses, thousand-year-old towns, hundred-year-old tea plantations and bamboo forests, as well as a ten-year vocational education". Yongchuan is also honored as the Asian Football Vision China City and Chongqing's premier town for folk art.