Hunan Province

The entire territory of Hunan Province is located in the area south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Most of it is named “Hunan” south of Dongting Lake. The area of ​​Hunan is 211.8 million square kilometers. It has a variety of land form types, mainly mountains and hills. The south borders with Guangdong Province and Guangxi Province.

The Land of Fish and Rice

Hunan is an important grain production base nationwide, and it has been called “the land of fish and rice” since ancient times. The population of 2019 is 69.318 million, ranking seventh in the country. The GDP in 2019 was 397.5212 billion yuan, ranking ninth in the country. There are 14 cities in Hunan Province, the capital of which is Changsha.

Grain, cotton, oil, ramie, flue-cured tobacco and pork are among the highest in the country, among which rice output is the highest in the country for many years, ramie and tea are ranked first and second respectively in the country, and Xianglian is ranked first in the country.

“Fireworks Hometown” Liuyang City is the world’s largest and most famous fireworks production base.

In the industrial field, there are 9 “billion yuan” industries such as

• machinery,
• light industry,
• food,
• electronic information,
• petrochemicals,
• nonferrous metals,
• metallurgy,
• building materials,
• and electricity.

There are 2 “billion yuan” Industrial Clusters of

• Changsha Engineering Machinery and
• Yueyang Petrochemical,

There are 4 “100 billion yuan” Industrial Parks in

• Changsha Economic Development Zone,
• Changsha High-tech Zone,
• Zhuzhou High-tech Zone,
• Xiangtan Economic Development Zone,

and 22 national-level new industrialized industrial demonstration bases.

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