Overview of Yueyang in the 2010 Yueyang Municipal People's Government Work Report

Yueyang was called Baling in ancient times, also known as Yuezhou. It was founded in 505 BC and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Yueyang is located at 29.22nd north latitude and 113.06th east longitude. It relies on Mufu Mountain to the east, Dongting Lake to the west, the Wanli Yangtze River to the north, and the Xiang, Zi, Yuan and Li rivers to the south. It has a superior location, beautiful scenery, fertile land, and rich products. It is known as

It is known as the "Land of Fish and Rice".

Yueyang City belongs to the north subtropical monsoon humid climate zone, with an average annual temperature of 17 degrees and an average annual rainfall of 1,302 mm. It has four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall.

Yueyang is rich in mineral resources, with more than 200 mineral deposits, among which the vanadium reserves are the largest in Asia.

Yueyang currently governs two county-level cities, Miluo City and Linxiang City, four counties, Yueyang County, Huarong County, Pingjiang County, and Xiangyin County, and three districts, Yueyang Lou District, Yunxi District, and Junshan District. It has Yueyang Economic and Technological Development

District, Chenglingji Port Industrial New Zone, Nanhu Scenic Area and Quyuan Management Area, with a total area of ??15,019 square kilometers and a total population of 5.4834 million.

Since the reform and opening up, Yueyang has been approved by the state as an open city along the Yangtze River, a national historical and cultural city, an outstanding tourist city in China, a national sanitary city, a national garden city, and a national advanced city in creating civilized cities.

Yueyang is a modern port city with access to the river and the sea.

Yueyang connects the east to the west and runs through the north and south, with obvious geographical advantages.

Yueyang is the only riverside port city in Hunan, and Chenglingji Port is one of the eight great ports on the Yangtze River.

As early as the late Qing Dynasty, Chenglingji established a customs and opened a port for trade.

In 1992, Yueyang was approved by the State Council as one of the first cities along the Yangtze River to open to the outside world. In 1996, it was approved by the state to open to foreign shipping. It is a state-approved first-class port open to the outside world and one of the first direct freight ports on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The first phase of the Chenglingji New Port Area has been put into operation, and the shipping channel from Yueyang to Wuhan has been opened. The city's port throughput ranks first in Hunan and seventh in the country's inland river ports.

The Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, Wuhan-Guangzhou Railway Passenger Dedicated Line, National Highway 107 and the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway under construction run parallel to each other; the Yangtze River’s golden waterway leads to the river and the sea, and the Dongting Lake Bridge and the Yue-Chang Expressway, Shihua Expressway, Yue-Chang Expressway and the Yue-Chang Expressway under construction

Tong Expressway, Yue-Ru Expressway and Jingyue Railway run through Badong and western Hubei, and Yueyang Airport has entered the national feeder airport plan, initially forming a transportation system extending in all directions.

Yueyang is a modern tourist city with rich culture.

Yueyang is one of the earliest ancient cities in the south of the Yangtze River. It is famous for its "water under the sky in Dongting and buildings under the sky in Yueyang".

There are 193 scenic spots in the territory, such as Yueyang Tower, Junshan Island, Quzi Temple, Zhang Guying Ancient Building Complex, and 22 revolutionary cultural relics memorial sites such as the Pingjiang Uprising Site and Ren Bishi Memorial Hall.

The Yueyang Tower New Scenic Spot was completed and opened to the public in May 2008. 33 new scenic spots including the ancient city gate, ancient city wall, Five Dynasties Tower View, and Bianhe Street were added to fully display the style of the ancient city, set off the scenery of Louhu Lake, and reproduce the scenic beauty of Baling.

The Miluo River, where Qu Yuan died for his country, is known as the "upper reaches of blue ink" and is the birthplace of dragon boat culture.

With the theme of love culture, Junshan Island is famous both at home and abroad and is known as the "Oriental Garden of Eden".

Zhang Guying Village integrates Chinese traditional culture, civilian awareness, architectural art, and aesthetic taste, and can be called "the best village in the world."

Yueyang has also been rated as a cultural city of Chinese couplets, a city of Chinese poetry, and a charming city of China.

The "Hot Travel to Yueyang" project is being vigorously implemented, and a Hunan-Chu cultural tour, ecological sightseeing tour, folk custom tour, leisure vacation tour, hot spring wellness tour, and celebrity hometown tour featuring "buildings, islands, and lakes" have been initially formed.

8 golden tourist routes including mysterious adventure tours and religious pilgrimage tours.

Yueyang is a modern new industrial city with prosperous industries.

Supported by new industrialization, Yueyang is an important petrochemical base, newsprint production base, electric power energy base and feed and food processing base in Central and South China.

Relying on Chenglingji Lingang Industrial New Zone, a number of large enterprises such as Changling Refining and Chemical, Baling Petrochemical, Yueyang Paper, and Huaneng Power Plant are distributed along the 30-kilometer stretch of the Yangtze River, which has the foundation to accept industrial projects with large transportation volume and large water consumption.

conditions to become Hunan Linjiang Chemical Industrial Zone.

Among chemical products, caprolactam production ranks first in the world, and SBS and cyclohexanone production ranks first in Asia.

Yueyang Economic and Technological Development Zone is at the national level and has 5 provincial-level parks.

The city has 1,309 large-scale enterprises, 9 listed companies, and 144 high-tech enterprises; it has 12 well-known Chinese trademarks, 95 provincial famous trademarks, 3 Chinese famous brand products, and 64 provincial famous brand products. It was rated as "National Trademark Strategy Implementation"

Model City".

Efforts are being made to build two 100-billion industry clusters in petrochemicals and food and eight 10-billion industry clusters in papermaking, electric power and energy, biomedicine, machinery manufacturing, building materials, textiles, electronic information and photovoltaics, and renewable resources.

Yueyang has also been listed by the Chinese version of Forbes as one of the 20 most suitable cities for setting up factories in mainland China, one of the 25 most suitable cities for developing the logistics industry, and one of the top 100 best commercial cities.

Yueyang is a modern ecological and livable city that blends mountains and rivers.

The city has 3 national forest parks and 3 national ecological construction demonstration counties (districts). The city’s forest coverage rate is 36.4%. The urban public green space area reaches 1.25 million square meters, and the per capita public green space area is 8.75 square meters.

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