Introduction of Changsha
Changsha , the political, economic, cultural, educational, scientific, transportation, communication, financial centre of Hunan province, is one of the 24 well-known cultural and historic city by the State Congress and among the first city group opened for tourism, covering 11819 square kilometers with a population of 5.7687 million.
Because Changsha enjoys profound culture formed in Hunan developing process, advanced values of keeping pace with time, strategic geographic advantages, day-by-day improving city functions, developed industrial economy, robust market demand and rich human resources, it plays a more and more important role in China's economic, social, cultural stage.
Geographic Traits
Changsha spreads 233 kilometer from the east to the west, 90 kilometers from the south to the north. The city seats in stream valley mesa surrounded by relatively high mountains, as the old saying goes ¡°the city is surrounded all by mountains¡±. Mountains beyond mountains, there are Yuelu Mount, the highest one in the west, Tianma Mount, Phoenix Mount. Behind mountains there are extraordinarily green forests like Peach Flower Ridge, Golden Ox Ridge. In the old days, well water in Changsha City is very clear and sweet, never dry in any season, among which Baisha Well, Mandarin Duck Well, Water Wind Well are very famous.
The great nature gives birth to Xiangliu basin, and Xiangliu basin to old city, Changsha . Waters mirroring mountains, Changsha has a very unique geographic advantage, and it will reveal its infinite charms in modernized city construction in the further.
Geographic Advantages
Changsha stands in the central and a little southeast of Hunan, in the lower reach of Xiang River, to the south of Dongting Lake, controls Chu Country to the north, leads Guangdong province to the south, connect Zhejing and Jiangxi provinces to the east, directs Sichuan and Guizhou to the west, seizing the hinterland of China and occupying the most crucial south-to-north juncture. It is the front edge of mainland stretching to the coastal area of Guangxi and Guangdong provinces and border area in Southwest China . So far, it has become a pioneer in supporting the development of coastal areas, open areas along rivers, rear base and inner lands.
In the national strategic pattern of ¡°Gathering East and West¡±, ¡°Frequent
communication between the South and the North¡±, Changsha acts as a hub connecting the East with the West, the South with the North. Besides, it enjoys the favorable policies designed for some provincial authorities and open cities along rivers and is the key development area of Hunan 's ¡°Learn Guangdong and Pudong, Make necessary reforms to become that prosperous¡± strategy. These advantages will surely promote the flowing of capital, products, technology, information, talents and other production materials to Changsha area from Hunan, neighboring provinces and Hongkong and Macao areas, which will make it develop faster becoming the ¡°development peak¡± in regional economy .
Industry Advantages
Changsha boasts many nice titles of ¡°Fish and Rice Hometown¡± , ¡°Hunan Embroidery Hometown¡±, ¡°Pottery Hometown¡± and ¡°Tea Hometown¡±. Its related industries like food, process, industries producing consumption materials and metallurgy have become traditional competitive industries. By decades £§ development, Changsha has generated 26 industries and comprehensive industrial (oriented to light industry) system covering extensive fields. Since China 's reform and opening-up, Changsha commercial scene is quite promising, whose business networks, trading markets and merchant population, retailing volumes are all in the front rank among other national capitals.
Transportation Advantages
Changsha transportation is developing at amazing speed, which has greatly shortened time and distance between Changsha and the world.
State Road 107 ¡¢ 319 ¡¢ 106 and Jingzhu (Beijing to Zhuhai) , Shangrui (Shanghai to Ruili) highway intervened inner-city. Changsha is a hub for national road traveling, through which to Beijing , Kunming , Shanghai , Shenzhen and neighboring cities will only take one day to arrive.
Connecting Zhegan route in the east, Jingguang Railway through Zhuzhou runs directly to Shanghai, Fuzhou; Connecting Xiangqian route in the west, it runs directly to Kunming, Chengdu; to the north it reaches Beijing, Shenyang; to the south, it goes to Guangzhou and Shenzhen;
Huanghua International Airport opens 35 flight routes to China and other countries;
Waterway runs along Xing River goes into Dongting Lake and finally pours into the East Sea .
The all-direction radiating transport networks endows Changsha with abilities of widely having exchanges with domestic and foreign areas, greatly
improving the collecting, radiating and logistic function of Changsha markets.
Natural Scenery
Changsha is a typical city of mountains and rivers with Yuelu Mount as screen, Xiang River as belt, the green Shuilu Island floating in river center, Liuyang River winding outside the city, lakes dotting everywhere, ridges and mountains appearing in turn and villages among them.
Xiang River come roaring from the south and goes spectacularly to the north, running 25 km within Changsha . Red walls along it look like red clouds, white sands like snow, bending willow like threads, boats like changing clouds in the beautiful Changsha along-river scenery belt; Orange Island has long been famed, it being 10km long and its bridge crosses from the east to the west, the very place of one of the eight Zhixiang sites scenes ¡°picturesque beauty of river, sky and morning snow¡±. Lowering your head, you can see green water flowing quietly; lifting your eyes, you can see green hills standing grandly. The old poem £¬ ¡°Clouds comes from the southwest to measure Yuelu Mountain, with rivers roaring, we travel day and night down to Dongting Lake¡±, is the best description of Yuelu Mountain. Besides, there are famous mountains of Changsha region listed as tourist resorts, like Dawei Mount in the east of Liuyang City and Wei Mount in the west of Ningxiang County , which is less than 100 km away from Changsha City .
