This time, I explored a city in heavy rain....Hope you like it, my firends.
Xiangtan was first established in the early 6th century.
The name "Xiangtan" comes from its geographical features.
It is said that this place is named "Xiangtan" because of the song of the Xiangjiang River, and the other is more widely accepted, that is, it is named after the Xiangzhou Lake in the Xiangjiang River at the foot of Zhaoshan Mountain, that is, Zhaotan.
It is a deeper section of the Xiangjiang River, but it is quite famous because of its legendary connection with Zhou Zhaowang, so that as a main geographical feature, the area where it is located has been named Xiangtan County since the Tang Dynasty.
Originally some distance south of the present city site, it was moved to its present site in 749 and has remained a county under the same name ever since, except for a brief interval in the 13th and 14th centuries when it became an independent prefecture.
In 1950 the city of Xiangtan was established by separating the administrative seat of the county, along with its surrounding area, from the county proper. Shaoshan, the birthplace of Mao Zedong, located in the northwestern part of the county, was set off initially as a district subordinate to Xiangtan and later (1990) was made a city unto itself.
The old city—the commercial center and port—was located on the west bank of the Xiang River. Since 1949 a major new industrial city has grown up on the east bank.
This includes a large cotton-textile industry and a large electric wire and cable plant as well as an electrical equipment plant that makes a wide range of products. There is also a large iron and steel complex, built in the late 1950s.
Xiangtan remains a commercial center for the agricultural produce of southern and southwestern Hunan.
However, the city has also become the most important base of heavy industry in Hunan, its output of iron and steel, electrical machinery, textiles, and chemicals constituting a significant portion of the province’s total production.
In addition, it is a center for rice milling and is a major producer of hog bristles.
Xiangtan is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China.
The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong.
Xiangtan education has a good historical tradition and basic education is well developed.
There are 481 primary schools and 181 ordinary middle schools in the city, including 11 demonstration middle schools in Hunan Province.
At the same time, Xiangtan is also the sub-center of higher education in Hunan Province. There is a comprehensive national key university - Xiangtan University, Hunan University Branch (under construction) and Hunan University of Science and Technology, etc. 8 full-time regular institutions of higher learning; The number of students reached 126,000. In addition, there are 97 scientific research institutions in the city, with more than 130,000 professional and technical personnel.
The number of professional and technical personnel per 10,000 people, the number of patent applications per 10,000 people, and the number of patent holdings per 10,000 people all rank in the province. second.
Xiangtan City is located in the central part of Hunan and the middle reaches of the Xiangjiang River. Together with Changsha and Zhuzhou, it constitutes the "Golden Triangle" area with the most developed politics, economy and culture in Hunan Province.
Xiangtan has a long history and has been an important commercial center in the lake since ancient times. As early as the seventeenth century, it was a famous "rice market" and "medicine capital" in the country.
Xiangtan has a mild climate, fertile land and rich products. It is an important grain and pig production base in the country. Xiangtan is an important electromechanical industrial base in New China. It is now forming a highly competitive pillar industry with metallurgy, electromechanical, textile, chemical industry, and building materials as the main body.
Xiangtan belongs to the humid subtropical monsoon climate zone, with dry summer and autumn, and easy to be attacked by cold waves and strong winds in winter and spring. The light energy resources are relatively abundant, and the average sunshine hours over the years are 1640-1700 hours.
Abundant heat resources, the average temperature of 16.7-17.4 ℃. The precipitation is abundant, but the seasonal distribution is uneven and the inter-annual variation is large. The annual precipitation is 1200-1500 mm.
0:00 Intro
0:37 Central downtown Xiangtan
39:47 Yaowan Ancient Street
1:02:37 Yuhu Park
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