Xiangyang

Xiangyang is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei province, China and the second largest city in Hubei by population. It was known as Xiangfan from 1950 to 2010.[3] The Han River runs through Xiangyang's centre and divides the city north–south. The city itself is an agglomeration of two once separate cities: Fancheng and Xiangcheng (known as Xiangfan before 2010). What remains of old Xiangyang is located south of the Han River and contains one of the oldest still-intact city walls in China, while Fancheng is located to the north of the Han River. Both cities served prominent historical roles in both ancient and pre-modern Chinese history. Today, the city has been a target of government and private investment as the country seeks to urbanize and develop the interior provinces. In 2017, population of the prefecture-level city was 5.65 million, in which 3.37 million were urban residents.[4]

For other uses, see Xiangyang (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Xianyang, Xingyang, or Xinyang.
Xiangyang

襄阳市

Siangyang, Siang-yang
Prefecture-level city
Overlooking Fancheng District from Xiangcheng District on the other side of the Han River.
Location of Xiangyang City jurisdiction in Hubei
Xiangyang
Location of the city centre in Hubei
Coordinates (Xiangyang municipal government): 32°00′36″N 112°07′19″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceHubei
County-level divisions8
Township-level divisions159
Municipal seatXiangcheng District
Government
 • MayorQie Yingcai
Area
 • Prefecture-level city19,724.41 km2 (7,615.64 sq mi)
 • Urban
 (2017)[1]
374.30 km2 (144.52 sq mi)
 • Districts[1]3,672.9 km2 (1,418.1 sq mi)
Elevation
71 m (232 ft)
Population
 (2010 census[2])
 • Prefecture-level city5,500,307
 • Density280/km2 (720/sq mi)
 • Urban
 (2017)[1]
1,234,500
 • Urban density3,300/km2 (8,500/sq mi)
 • Districts[1]
2,384,000
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code(s)710
ISO 3166 codeCN-HB-06
GDP 2007¥78.545 billion
GDP per capita 2007¥14,478
License Plate Prefix鄂F
Websitexiangyang.gov.cn
Xiangyang
"Xiangyang" written in Chinese
Simplified Chinese襄阳
Traditional Chinese襄陽
PostalSiangyang
Xiangfan
Chinese襄樊
PostalSiangfan

History
Han River near Fancheng, 1874

Xiangyang is located at a strategic site on the middle reaches of the Han River, and has witnessed several major battles in Chinese history. Xiangyang County was first established at the location of modern Xiangcheng in early Western Han dynasty and the name had been used continuously for more than 2,000 years until 20th century.

In the final years of Eastern Han dynasty, Xiangyang became the capital of Jing Province (ancient Jingzhou). The warlord Liu Biao governed his territory from here. Under Liu's rule, Xiangyang became a major destination of the northern elite fleeing warfare in the Central Plain. In the Battle of Xiangyang in 191 AD, Sun Jian, who was a rival warlord and the father of Sun Quan, founder of Eastern Wu, was defeated and killed. The area passed to Liu Bei after Liu Biao's death. Two decades later, Battle of Fancheng, one of the most important battles in late Han-Three Kingdoms period was fought here, resulting in Liu Bei's loss of Jingzhou.

During the early years of Jin dynasty, Xiangyang was on the frontier between Jin and Eastern Wu. Yang Hu, the commander in Xiangyang, was remembered for his policy of "border peace". Cross-border commerce was allowed, and the pressure on the Jin army was greatly relieved. Eventually, Xiangyang accumulated sufficient supplies for 10 years, which played a key role in Jin's conquest of Wu.

In Southern Song dynasty, after the Treaty of Shaoxing, Xiangyang became a garrison city on the northern frontier of Song. During Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty, Xiangyang together with Fancheng formed one of the greatest obstacles against the expansion of Mongol Empire. They were able to resist for six years before finally surrendering in the Siege of Xiangyang.

In 1796, Xiangyang was one of the centers of the White Lotus Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. Here, rebel leader Wang Cong'er successfully organized an rebel army of 50,000 and joined the main rebel forces in Sichuan. The revolt lasted for nearly 10 years and marked a turning point in the history of Qing dynasty.

In 1950, Xiangyang and Fancheng were merged to form Xiangfan City. In later 20th century, it became a major transport hub as Handan, Jiaoliu, and Xiangyu railways intersect in Fancheng. The city's current boundaries were established in 1983 when Xiangyang Prefecture was incorporated into Xiangfan City. The city was renamed to Xiangyang in 2010.

Geography

Xiangyang has a latitude range of 31° 14'−32° 37' N, or 154 km (96 mi), and longitude range of 110° 45'−113° 43' E, or 220 km (137 mi), and is located on the middle reaches of the Hanshui, a major tributary of the Yangtze River. The urban area, however, has a latitude range of 31° 54'−32° 10' N, or 29 km (18 mi), and longitude range of 112° 00'−112° 14' E, or 21 km (13 mi). It borders Suizhou to the east, Jingmen and Yichang to the south, Shennongjia and Shiyan to the west, and Nanyang (Henan) to the north. Its administrative border has a total length of 1,332.8 km (828.2 mi).

Xiangyang has a monsoon-influenced, four season humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with cold, damp (but comparatively dry), winters, and hot, humid summers.

Climate data for Xiangyang (1981–2010 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 7.4
(45.3)		 10.3
(50.5)		 15.2
(59.4)		 22.0
(71.6)		 27.1
(80.8)		 30.4
(86.7)		 31.8
(89.2)		 31.2
(88.2)		 27.4
(81.3)		 22.1
(71.8)		 15.7
(60.3)		 9.6
(49.3)		 20.8
(69.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) 3.1
(37.6)		 5.6
(42.1)		 10.1
(50.2)		 16.6
(61.9)		 21.7
(71.1)		 25.4
(77.7)		 27.4
(81.3)		 26.7
(80.1)		 22.5
(72.5)		 17.1
(62.8)		 10.9
(51.6)		 5.2
(41.4)		 16.0
(60.9)
Average low °C (°F) −0.2
(31.6)		 2.0
(35.6)		 6.2
(43.2)		 12.4
(54.3)		 17.5
(63.5)		 21.5
(70.7)		 24.1
(75.4)		 23.5
(74.3)		 19.0
(66.2)		 13.4
(56.1)		 7.0
(44.6)		 1.6
(34.9)		 12.3
(54.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 19.5
(0.77)		 27.6
(1.09)		 45.7
(1.80)		 60.7
(2.39)		 93.9
(3.70)		 96.8
(3.81)		 148.3
(5.84)		 136.9
(5.39)		 76.3
(3.00)		 66.3
(2.61)		 39.1
(1.54)		 16.8
(0.66)		 827.9
(32.59)
Average relative humidity (%) 73 71 72 73 72 76 83 82 78 76 74 72 75
Source: China Meteorological Administration[5]

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Xiangyang administers 9 county-level divisions, including 3 districts, 3 county-level cities and 3 counties.[6][7]

These are further divided into 159 township-level divisions, including 106 towns, 29 townships and 24 subdistricts.

Map

Economy
The Tang dynasty city film and television base in Xiangyang

Xiangyang possesses large water energy resources whilst its mineral deposits include rutile, ilmenite, phosphorus, barite, coal, iron, aluminum, gold, manganese, nitre, and rock salt. The reserves of rutile and ilmenite rank highly in China. Textile production is the mainstay industry of Xiangyang followed by machinery manufacture, chemical processing, electronics, and manufacture of construction materials. Agricultural resources are significant with Xiangyang's chief farm products including grain, cotton, vegetable oil crops, tobacco, tea and fruit. As the home of Dongfeng Motors, Xiangyang is a well known automobile hub and partners with foreign manufacturers to produce Nissan and Infiniti models for domestic sales. In addition, there are a number of chemical fibre enterprises in the city including Birla Jingwei Fibres, a member of the Aditya Birla Group. The city has also invested in many industrial, technology and clean energy parks.

Industry development

Xiangyang has been evaluated as one of “Top-100 Commercail Cities in Chinese Mainland” and “Top-20 Suitable Cities to Set Up Factories in Chinese Mainland” by Forbes. National top-50 city. New energy vehicle, civil-military integration industry, renewable energy utilization – three national new industrial demonstration bases. Comprehensive national industrial innovation center. “Core” industry intelligent creation center. National demonstration base of manufacturing industry high quality development.

Xiangyang has formed a modern multi-industry system of “one leading industry (Auto industry) and six pillars”, and has gathered more than 30 world top-500 enterprise such as Dongfeng, Nissan and Huawei.  

Auto Industry

As the eighth largest auto industry city in China, Xiangyang has an auto test field with scale and functions leading in Asia,  the largest medium-heavy and commercial auto axles manufacturer in Asia and the largest auto power assembly manufacturer in China, and has formed an integral industrial chain of finished autos and R&D, testing, detection, manufacturing and logistics of parts.

New Energy Auto Industry

The first group of national demonstration cities for promotion and application of new energy autos, the sole city with new energy auto whole production chain inspection ability and whole-process data analysis ability in China and “capital of China’s new energy autos”.

Deep Processing of Agricultural Products

The first ten-billion-kg grain city in the Yangtze River Basin, national modern agricultural demonstration base. “China Organic Millet” and special agriculture products processing park.

Equipment Manufacturing

Aviation Lifesaving – Asia's largest and China's only aviation lifesaving equipment manufacturing base.

Golden Eagle Heavy Construction Machinery – The world's third and China's first output of rail maintenance vehicles.  

High-tech, superior, and cutting-edge technologies support the high-quality development of the industry. Xiangyang is creating a transfer base in the central region to undertake high-end intelligent equipment manufacturing industry of the Great Bay Area.

Electronic Information Industry

An important hub of national information transmission backbone network and a national information consumption pilot city. Relying on Huawei Central China Data Center, IBM Central China Excellent Cloud Computing Center, China Mobile Big Data Center, Xiangyang attracts the concentrated development of cloud computing industry chain and strives to build a Central China information port based in Hubei to serve Central China and the whole country.

New Energy and New Material

National new material industry cluster area and new energy demonstration city.

State Grid Insulator, the largest composite insulator production base in Asia.

North Electro-Optics, the largest optical glass production base in China.

Jinyang Metallurgical Incorporated, ranks first among domestic recycled lead industry.

Biomedical Industry

A key strategic emerging industry has formed a complete pharmaceutical production system involving raw materials, preparations, Chinese patent medicine and Chinese herbal Slices.

Huazhong Pharma – the world's largest manufacturer of vitamin B1 raw material, its annual output accounts for 1/3 of the world's total.

Strong fine chemical industry base and vigorous development momentum.

Hubei Free Trade Zone at Xiangyang

With a total planned area of 21.99 square km, Hubei Free Trade Zone at Xiangyang is one of the three Hubei Free Trade Pilot Zones, a national opening-up platform and a new height of leading opening-up, enjoying preferential policies of free trade zone and national high-tech zone and giving priority to high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy autos, big data, cloud computing, business logistics, inspection and testing.  

Transportation

Xiangyang is a railway junction for the Xiangyang-Chongqing (Xiangyu), Hankou-Danjiangkou (Handan), and Jiaozuo-Liuzhou (Jiaoliu) Railways. Three National Highways including Route 207 pass through the city. The Han River and four other rivers are open to commercial transport year-round. The Xiangyang Liuji Airport has commercial airline services to major cities throughout China including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

With Xiangyang-Ningbo Port International Sea-railway Combined Transportation, “Xiangyang-Wuhan-Europe” Central Europe Freight Trains, three-dimensional international logistics channels have been established. Economic ties with countries and areas along the “Belt and Road” are getting closer and closer.

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References
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  4. 2017年襄阳市常住人口城镇化率达到59.65%. Hubei Statistics Bureau. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  5. 中国气象数据网 - WeatherBk Data (in Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  6. 襄樊市更名为襄阳市，襄阳区更名为襄州区 [Xiangfan City Changes Name to Xiangyang City, Xiangyang District Changes Name to Xiangzhou District] (in Chinese). XZQH.org. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2018. 行政区划调整后，襄阳市辖襄城、樊城、襄州3个市辖区以及南漳、谷城、保康3个县，代管老河口、枣阳、宜城3个县级市。
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