Huangshi (), alternatively romanized as Hwangshih, is a

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China ...

in southeastern

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...

province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 2,469,079 inhabitants at the 2020 census; 1,567,108 of whom lived in the built-up (''or metro'') area made up of 4 urban districts plus the city of

Daye Daye () is a county-level city in eastern Hubei province, China. It is under the administration of the Huangshi prefecture-level city. As it is usually the case with county-level cities, Daye includes both an urban core and a fair amount of rural ...

, now being part of the agglomeration.

History

In 845 BC Marquis Wen () Huang Meng (), or Huang Zhang () moved the capital of the State of Huang from Yicheng to Huangchuan (present-day Huangchuan, Henan). Huang Xi's descendants ruled State of Huang until 648 BC when it was destroyed by the State of Chu. The Marquis of Huang, Marquis Mu () Huang Qisheng (), fled to the state of Qi. The people of Huang were forced to relocate to Chu. They settled in the region of present-day Hubei province, in a region known as the Jiangxia Prefecture () during the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). On 9 March 1944, 18 CACW B-25s escorted by 24 P-40s bombed a foundry and floating docks at Huangshi in Hubei. They were intercepted by Japanese fighters from the 25th and 9th Sentai and lost 2 P-40s.

Geography and climate

Huangshi is located in southeastern Hubei province, primarily along the southwestern bank of one of the major bends in the

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. It is located southeast of

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, and borders

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

province to the south. Its area was reported by the local government as ; elsewhere, the number of was given. The terrain is mostly small mountains and hills. The tallest mountain is 7 Summit Mountain with an elevation of above sea level. Huangshi is also located in a major lake district between Hunan's Dongting Lake and Jiangxi's Poyang lake and has dozens of large lakes. Huangshi's climate is sub-temperate. Average annual temperature is and precipitation is . There are 264 frost free days. It is possible to see limited snowfall between December and February.

Administration

, Huangshi had 4 districts, 1

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, and 1

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Demographics

According to the Fifth Population Census of China (2000), the entire prefecture-level city of Huangshi had 2,476,400 people, making for the population density of 540 people per square kilometer.Huangshi population statistics
as reported by Huangshi Prefecture-Level City Government More than 99% of the population belong to the

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ethnic group. According to

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there are 686.894 people in Huangshi; this refers, presumably, to Huangshi's urban core (Huangshigang District 196,600 people, density 5757 people /km²; West Fort Mountain (Xisaishan) Area, 244,000, density 2171 people /km²; Xialu District, 146,600 people, density 2536 people /km²), and excludes the far-flung Yangxin County,

, and Tieshan.

Economy

Huangshi's GDP for 2003 was 27.5 billion CNY. Its proximity to

and location along major rail lines and the Yangtze River make Huangshi an important logistics, distribution, and transportation hub. Mineral resources are plentiful in Huangshi giving it the nickname "The Southern Cornucopia". Metals include iron,

manganese Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy use ...

, gold, copper,

tungsten Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with the symbol W and atomic number 74. Tungsten is a rare metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively as compounds with other elements. It was identified as a new element in 1781 and first isol ...

, molybdenum,

zinc Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Zinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodi ...

, lead,

cobalt Cobalt is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, p ...

, silver, gallium, and

thallium Thallium is a chemical element with the symbol Tl and atomic number 81. It is a gray post-transition metal that is not found free in nature. When isolated, thallium resembles tin, but discolors when exposed to air. Chemists William Crookes an ...

. Other mineral resources include germanium,

indium Indium is a chemical element with the symbol In and atomic number 49. Indium is the softest metal that is not an alkali metal. It is a silvery-white metal that resembles tin in appearance. It is a post-transition metal that makes up 0.21 parts ...

selenium Selenium is a chemical element with the symbol Se and atomic number 34. It is a nonmetal (more rarely considered a metalloid) with properties that are intermediate between the elements above and below in the periodic table, sulfur and tellurium, ...

tellurium Tellurium is a chemical element with the symbol Te and atomic number 52. It is a brittle, mildly toxic, rare, silver-white metalloid. Tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur, all three of which are chalcogens. It is occasionall ...

, sulfur, calcite,

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, celestine, plaster, and many others. Agriculture is also a major part of Huangshi's economy. There are more than 3000 species of plants in Huangshi, many of them used for food, pharmaceuticals, and fragrance. Other industries include metallurgy, textiles, construction materials, energy, light manufacturing, electronics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and food processing. 2 of the biggest companies in the city are th
Daye Steel Co. Ltd
() an
Huaxin Cement Co. Ltd
().

Transportation

The prefecture-level city is served by

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, National Highways 106 and

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and

Wuhan–Jiujiang Railway The Wuhan–Jiujiang railway or Wujiu railway (), is a double-track, electrified railroad in central China between Wuhan in Hubei Province and Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province. The line is long and follows the south bank of the Yangtze River from Wuc ...

. The city has two Yangtze River crossings, the

Huangshi Yangtze River Bridge The Huangshi Yangtze River Bridge () is a box girder bridge across the Yangtze River in Huangshi, Hubei Province in central China. The bridge is made of prestressed concrete. The bridge has a total length of , including a total span length of , i ...

and the

Edong Yangtze River Bridge The Edong Yangtze River Bridge () is a cable-stayed bridge across the Yangtze River in Hubei Province in eastern China. The bridge connects Huangshi and Xishui County and forms part of the G45 Daqing–Guangzhou Expressway and the G50 Shanghai� ...

. Many of the passenger trains traveling on the

between Wuhan (

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and

Stations) and the points southeast make stops at the Huangshi and Yangxin stations. The Huangshi Station is located within the administrative borders of Daye County-level city (), about north of downtown Daye and west of downtown Huangshi. The Yangxin Station is near Yangxin County's county seat, Xingguo Town. Although Huangshi's main urban area is some distance away from the

mainline, it is connected to it by a dead-end branch, of considerable importance for the local industries. It runs all the way to Huangshi's river port on the Yangtze. There was even a downtown passenger station on this branch (Huangshi East Railway Station, ), but, , it was served by very few trains, and by 2015, was not in operation anymore. In 2014, the Wuhan-Huangshi line of the Wuhan Metropolitan Area Intercity Railway opened. The three stations of this commuter rail system in the Huangshi area are Huahu (), and . Huahu, although technically situated within the boundaries of Ezhou City, is actually located on the north-western edge of Huangshi's central city (); Haungshi North is in Xialu District, in the western part of Huangshi's central city; the Daye North station is north-east of Daye ().

Tourism

Ci Lake lights January 2009 by Matthew Shaw

Huangshi is situated amongst numerous picturesque lakes and mountains. One of Huangshi's more famous sites is the Buddhist Temple on Dongfang Mountain (), Cihu Lake, Xisaishan, TuanChengShan Park, and Qingshan Lake () with connecting Ci Lake. Cihu Lake with surrounding Cihu Lake Scenery Park () separates the older areas of Huangshi to the newer government development zone. The former eastern pit of the Daye Iron Mine, which operated from the late 1890s until 2000, has been converted into Huangshi National Mining Park (), where visitors can see a variety of mining equipment from the past and the present."Mining for tourism in Hubei"
By Li Jing (China Daily). Updated: 2008-09-22 Xisaishan, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the eastern part of the city, provides views of the city and Yangtze River below (considered a 3A class tourist attraction).

Notable residents

Cheng Fei Cheng Fei (; born May 29, 1988) is a retired Chinese artistic gymnast. She is a three-time World Champion on the vault (2005–2007) and 2006 World Champion on floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the ...

, gymnast (b. 1988) * Chen Shu (actress), (b. 1977)

References

External links

Official Newspaper(Chinese)
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