Xiantao ( zh, s= , p=Xiāntáo) is a

sub-prefecture-level city A sub-prefectural municipality (), sub-prefectural city, or vice-prefectural municipality, is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China. A sub-prefectural city is officially considered to be a county-level city, bu ...

in the east of

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

province, China. Located at the

Jianghan Plain Jianghan Plain (; pinyin: Jiānghàn Píngyuán), named for the confluence of the Yangtze ('Jiang') and Han ('han') rivers, is an alluvial plain located in the middle and south of Hubei, China. Wuhan, the most populous city in Central China, is l ...

in the middle of Hubei province and spanning 112°55' – 113°49' east longitude and 30°04' – 30°32' north latitude, Xiantao City covers an area of . Xiantao is the hometown of author

Chi Li Chi Li (born 30 May 1957) is a contemporary female Chinese writer based in Wuhan. She graduated from the department of Chinese literature at Wuhan University in 1986. The setting for some of her stories is Changtangkou () in Xiantao, Hubei. ...

and entrepreneur

Lei Jun Lei Jun (born 16 December 1969) is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur, computer engineer, and nonpartisan congressman. He is known for being the founder, chairman, and CEO of the consumer electronics company Xiaomi. He also serves as the chai ...

History

Xiantao was known as Mianyang ( zh, s= , t= , p=Miǎnyáng) until 1986.

Geography

It is close to the provincial capital of

Wuhan Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...

, and only one hour drive from the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, Hankou Railway Station and Changjiang—Wuhan Port. The

G4 Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway The Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway (), designated as G4 and commonly referred to as the Jinggang'ao Expressway () is a -long expressway that connects the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shenzhen, in Guangdong province, at the border of ...

running and the

G42 Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway The Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway (), designated as G42 and commonly referred to as the Hurong Expressway () is an east–west bound expressway that connects the eastern metropolis of Shanghai to Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan. The expressw ...

cross near Xiantao city.

Administrative divisions

Xiantao administers: Former town: Xiachabu/Xiazhabu (Hsia-cha-fou) ()

Climate

Demographics

As of 2006, the population of Xiantao was 1,480,100. Of this, the urban population was 593,500 and the rural population was 886,600. As of 2016, the population of Xiantao was 1.5635 million.

Sports

Xiantao has been described as a "Gymnastics town", because it has cultivated several gymnastics champions, such as

Li Xiaoshuang Li Xiaoshuang (; born November 1, 1973) is a Chinese gymnast and Olympic champion.

Li Dashuang Li Dashuang (; born 1 November 1973 in Xiantao, Hubei) is a Chinese artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fé ...

, and Yang Wei.

Transportation

China National Highway 318 China National Highway 318 (G318) is a trunk road in China that runs east-west from Shanghai in East China to Zhangmu on the China-Nepal border. It is the longest of the China National Highways at in length and runs west from Huangpu District ...

* Xiantao West railway station on the

Wuhan–Yichang railway Wuhan–Yichang railway, or Hanyi railway (), is a long higher-speed railway between Hankou (in Wuhan) and Yichang, in Hubei province, China. The railway forms a section of the Huhanrong passenger-dedicated line from Shanghai to Wuhan to Chengdu ...

(

Hankou Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers w ...

Yichang Yichang ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most pop ...

) *

Xiantao railway station Xiantao ( zh, s= , p=Xiāntáo) is a sub-prefecture-level city in the east of Hubei province, China. Located at the Jianghan Plain in the middle of Hubei province and spanning 112°55' – 113°49' east longitude and 30°04' – 30°32' north lat ...

on the Wuhan–Xiantao intercity railway *

Jianghan Plain railway The Jianghan Plain railway is a freight-only railway line in the Jianghan Plain, China. It has a length of and was constructed as Hubei's priority infrastructure project as stated in the 12th five-year plan. History The line opened on 21 December ...

(freight only)

Famous People

References

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