Zhongxiang is an ancient and magical land. It is one of the birthplaces of Chu culture, written history of more than 2,700 years, the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period called the suburb of Ying, is the capital of Chu, the Ming Dynasty is one of the country's three major jurisdiction Chengtianfu seat. Long history, gave birth to the glorious Chu culture, created the Chu Rhetoric writer Song Yu, Chu song and dance artist Mo Chou female and a number of far-reaching impact in history; Ming Emperor Jiajing had a fortune here; numerous cultural relics in the territory, the construction of the country's largest single emperor mausoleum - the mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty and the magnificent architectural ensemble, there is a "Museum of the Earth" is known as the obvious Mausoleum The obvious mausoleum was honored as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2000. Tourism resources are very rich, there are national Dahong Mountain Scenic Area, the national Dakou Forest Park and other natural landscapes, especially the Huangxian Cave more than 20,000 square meters of karst landforms for the world's rare.
Zhongxiang is a fertile hot land. It is a mild climate, abundant rainfall subtropical monsoon climate, mountains, plains, hills and both, harboring rich mineral resources, has proved that there are phosphate rock, regolith, sulfurous iron ore, aluminum, silicon, barite and other 6 types of 27 kinds, especially phosphate rock reserves ranked second in the country, the mining volume ranked first in the country, there is a "Central phosphorus capital" of the name; rich products and resources for Zhongxiang. Abundant products and resources for the economic development of Zhongxiang inserted the wings of take-off. The city's comprehensive social and economic strength for six consecutive years into the top ten counties and cities in Hubei Province, the comprehensive strength of agriculture was ranked fifth in the country, the first in Hubei, the construction of well-off people has been ranked among the top of the province; industrial formation of light industry, textile, food and feed, machinery and automobiles, building materials, chemical industry and other six pillars of the industry, bags, electric motors, dehydrated vegetables, pueraria lobata, such as 17 kinds of products to enter the international market, beer enzymes, Beishan pumped storage power station and so on. A number of high-tech content, high value-added projects are under construction, which will add strong impetus to economic development. Convenient transportation, energy, infrastructure, fully functional, the formation of water, land, air, three-dimensional transportation network fully open pattern; cement pavement in the province's counties and cities in the first, Changjing Railway, Xiangjing Expressway through the territory, Lengshui Airport to open the flights, Hanjiang River navigation year-round; postal and telecommunication communications to achieve digitization, the townships and townships to open the program-controlled direct dialing, mobile communication network and wireless automatic paging network covering the city.
Geography
Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, Jingmen City, administered. Located in central Hubei Province, Han River midstream, the northern end of the Jianghan Plain, at latitude 30 ° 42 -31 ° 36, longitude 112 ° 07 -113 ° 00 between; North and South maximum longitudinal distance of 100.60 kilometers, east and west of the maximum horizontal distance of 83.50 kilometers, version of the total area of 4,488 square kilometers, listed in the province's third place. Municipal People's Government in Ying, 218 kilometers from the provincial capital of Wuhan City, northeast of Suizhou City, east of Jingshan County, south of Tianmen, west of Jingmen, northwest of Yicheng City border.
History
Zhongxiang is an important birthplace of Chu culture, written history of more than 2,700 years. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Zhongxiang for Chu, called the suburbs of Ying, is the capital of Chu. The beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the county, the Three Kingdoms is part of Wu, called Shicheng. Since the Western Jin Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty more than 1,600 years, Zhongxiang has been the county, state and government seat. Because Emperor Jiajing was born and raised here, he gave the county the name "Zhongxiang", which means "auspicious Zhongju". Ming Jiajing ten years (A.D. 1531), the imperial set Chengtianfu, was then the country's three major governorships (Shuntianfu - today's Beijing, Yingtianfu - today's Nanjing, Chengtianfu - today's Zhongxiang), one of the most prosperous for a while. It was one of the three major prefectures (Shuntianfu - present Beijing, Yingtianfu - present Nanjing, Chengtianfu - present Zhongxiang) in China at that time. After the establishment of the Chinese people's **** and the country, the county name is still Zhongxiang, rule Ying, May 1992, the county set up a city.
Natural resources
Agricultural resources: the city's total land area of 6.73 million acres, of which 1.234 million acres of arable land, more than 500,000 acres of pleasurable wasteland, nearly 2 million acres of forested land, 740,000 acres of water, more than 1.9 million acres of pasture. Freshwater resources; the city's freshwater resources total 51.042 billion cubic meters. Han water from north to south across the city 144 kilometers, in the Han water basin has a barbaric river, Zhupi River, Fengle River, Ao River, North and South Lake River, Changtan River and other 8 water systems, has built Wenxia, Shimen, Huangpo three large reservoirs, the city's hydroelectric energy reserves is greater than 157,000 kilowatts. Agricultural resources; 99 years, the city's grain output of 860,000 tons, 0.7 million tons of cotton production, oil production of 108,000 tons, fruit production of 140,000 tons, 70,000 tons of aquatic products, vegetable production of 747,000 tons, 645,000 head of live pigs, 6.13 million poultry out of the cage.
Mineral resources: Zhongxiang has now proved that there are 6 types of 27 kinds of mineral resources, accounting for 1/6 of the minerals found in the country, accounting for the province's 1/4. Mainly phosphorite, regolith, mineral water, sulfurous iron ore, limestone, refractory clay, talc, marble, coal, barite, dolomite, diamonds, and alluvial gold, etc. Among them, the reserves of phosphorite amounted to 50,000 tons. Phosphorus ore reserves of 536 million tons, ranking second in the country, the mining volume ranks first in the country, known as the "Central Plains Phosphorus". There are national "Eighth Five-Year Plan" key projects, Asia's largest phosphorus chemical enterprises - investment of nearly 3 billion yuan of Dayukou mine fertilizer combination project, is the national phosphorus chemical base. In the oil drilling and aerospace industry and other fields have a wide range of uses of the recumbent stone mine, the world only found more than 40, only 3 mining value, especially in Zhongxiang phosphate town reserves, mining and utilization value, reserves of 2 billion tons, the province's top. Mineral water is mainly distributed in the townships of Changtan, Kedian, Changshou, is currently being developed and utilized. The development of phosphate industry, fine chemicals, building materials industry has a unique resource advantage, and has a certain development basis.
Tourism resources: Zhongxiang is China's famous historical and cultural city, China's excellent tourist city, the world cultural heritage site (obvious ling), is an important part of the national level Dahongshan scenic area. The territory is very rich in tourism resources, now initially formed four scenic spots: First, Ying in the scenic area. Here is the Chu Rhetoric literati Song Yu, Chu extra-artist Mo Chou female, the hometown of the Ming Jiajing Emperor, is the birthplace of the elegant song "Yangchun Baixue", generations of literati such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi are here to leave their ink. There are 19 Chu culture sites, 38 architectural complexes. One of the national key cultural relics unit, fifteen Ming Dynasty mausoleums - the mausoleum, is China's central and southern region of the only one of the emperor's mausoleum, is China's largest single Ming Dynasty emperor's mausoleum, magnificent, spectacular. The second is the Yuntai Guan Scenic Area. There is a national forest park in the area - Dakou Forest Park, with a forest area of 170,000 acres and a forest coverage rate of 85%. Famous landscapes include Yuntai Guan, Songmen Temple, White Deer Temple, Mida Temple, Longquanan, Eagle's Cave, Wulong Cave, and Liumengate Waterfall. Third, Dahong Mountain Scenic Area. Is a national scenic area, dense forests, moderate elevation (average elevation of about 700 meters, the highest 051 meters), is the ideal summer resort. Area even size of the cave 4, there are famous mountains, strange trees, hot springs in many places, including the Huangxian hole a large, strange, male, beautiful, and famous far and near, the hole more than 20,000 square meters of karst landforms for the world rare. Has now completed part of the development, the annual reception of nearly 10,000 tourists. Fourth, Wenxia Scenic Area. Is the main body of the Wenxia Reservoir as a scenic water excursion area.
Economic development
The city's GDP is expected to be 8.484 billion yuan in 2003, with a five-year average annual growth rate of 5.6%. The "Ninth Five-Year Plan" has been successfully completed, and the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" is advancing smoothly. The industrial structure is constantly optimized. The proportion of the three industries was adjusted from 35.3:32.6:32.1 in 1998 to 25.6:37.8:36.6 in 2003, with the secondary and tertiary industries becoming the mainstay of the national economy. The quality and efficiency of economic operation have been improving continuously, and the financial income in 2003 amounted to 278 million yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 1.6%. The general budget revenue of 190 million yuan, an average annual growth rate of 6.7%.
Transportation conditions
Zhongxiang City is located in the middle of Hubei Province, the territory of the highway, the national and provincial trunk highways in all directions, the Han River waterway can be directly to Wuhan, Jiaozhi Railway, Changjing Railway, running through the city of east-west and north-south, the basic formation of a three-dimensional transportation network of highways, waterways, railroads.
1, highway
The city's highway mileage of 4100 kilometers, of which the city's territory of two highways, Xiangjing Expressway has been completed and opened to traffic in 2004, from the city on the Xiang (Fan) Jing (state) highway in about 20 minutes; and another WU (Han) to Jing (door) to Yichang (Chang) highway is under construction, is expected to be opened in 2008, from the city on the highway about 13 kilometers. City on the highway about 13 kilometers, 140 kilometers to Wuhan, after the opening of the city to Wuhan about 1 and a half hours. From the highway to the east to Wuhan, Hefei, Nanjing; to the south to Changde, Shaoyang, Guangzhou; to the west to Yichang, Chongqing, Chengdu (see details of the national highway network).
2, waterways
Zhongxiang City is located in the middle reaches of the Han River, the rivers in the territory, there are 295.5 kilometers of waterways. The city's water transportation year-round navigation?
, set of medical treatment, teaching, scientific research in one of the large-scale comprehensive hospital, with the United States imported whole-body CT machine, color Doppler, extracorporeal shock wave lithotriptor, the United States Burt hemodialysis machine and other advanced medical equipment, more than 200 sets (pieces), able to carry out the removal of brain tumors, mitral valve closure separation, hepatic lobectomy, bone reimplantation, IOL implantation, radiological interventions and other difficult technical projects, there are three The scientific research achievements have passed the provincial appraisal and reached the domestic leading level. Zhongxiang Municipal People's Hospital has been awarded the national second grade A hospital, baby-friendly hospital and Jingmen Top Ten Civilized Window Demonstration Hospital. Zhongxiang City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a national second-class A-class hospital, China burns and ulcers Zhongxiang Science and Technology Center, Hubei Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine technical collaboration hospitals and Henan Province Nanshi Hospital of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease technical collaboration hospitals, there are a number of well-known inside and outside of the city of traditional Chinese medicine specialties, including burns treatment centers using the international advanced wet exposure therapy of the new technology to treat all kinds of small and large areas of burns, with a fast recovery, without scarring and other characteristics. Characteristics. It has cured more than 500 burn patients with a cure rate of 92.3%, especially in the treatment of severe burns and respiratory burns with a burn area of more than 60%, which won the Third Prize of China's Burn Ulcer Scientific and Technological Achievements. The Department of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases mainly adopts "blood-thinning therapy", "interventional therapy", "thrombolytic therapy" and a series of medicines for the prevention and treatment of stroke, treating aura of stroke, acute cerebrovascular accident, sequelae of stroke, coronary heart disease, and other diseases.City construction
Zhongxiang City since the withdrawal of the county in 1992 since the establishment of the city to create a health city and civilized city as an opportunity to increase investment in urban construction, has invested 460 million yuan, the construction of 25 urban roads, 36 kilometers in length, the urban road pavement rate of 98%, the total area of 2.5 million square meters of urban roads, per capita has the area of the urban roads 18 Square meters; completed the second phase of the urban water plant, the third phase of the project, the city's daily water supply capacity of 105,000 tons, the urban water supply penetration rate, the water quality of the comprehensive pass rate of 100%, the new construction, the reconstruction of 30 drainage network of 44 kilometers, the city's drainage network density of 4 kilometers / square kilometers; the construction of high-standard flushing toilets, the construction of garbage treatment plants and fecal waste disposal plant each one, garbage and fecal waste disposal rate of harmless The rate of harmless garbage treatment and manure treatment rate reached 100%; the construction of South Lake Park, Gongtang Park, the construction of 468 flower beds, greening planting 600,000 trees, the urban greening rate of 40%, per capita owns a public *** green space of 11 square meters; urban areas of the existing variety of public transport vehicles 226 standard units, the opening of the operating line 6, 10,000 people with a public transport vehicle 16 standard units.
At present, Zhongxiang city urban scale continues to expand, the built-up area of 14.5 square kilometers, the city population of 150,000 people, an overall function of the obvious enhancement of the star city is rising in the Jianghan Plain.
Zhongxiang is the paradise of investment and trade, contains unlimited business opportunities. The city's millions of people warmly welcome friends at home and abroad to Zhongxiang sightseeing and tourism, investment and business. Let us meet on the banks of the Han River, through the "auspicious Zhongju" of the spirit of jie, *** create the twenty-first century brilliant!
Zhongxiang dialect
Zhongxiang dialect, belonging to the southwest of China's northern dialect area, and in the local, but also divided into the city off (that is, Ying) accent, Lengshui accent, Dongqiao accent, the old accent, Chaihu accent (Note: Chaihu for the immigrant towns, immigrants from Henan Xichuan, is a dialect area of Henan). This site tells the Zhongxiang dialect, will be one of the most representative of Yingzhong accent.
Modern Zhongxiang dialect characteristics:
1, since the 1980s, Mandarin is a large number of infiltration into the Zhongxiang dialect, Zhongxiang dialect and the difference between the Mandarin is gradually narrowing. 1936 Chinese linguistic master Zhao Yuanren was in Zhongxiang, Hubei Province, investigated, at the time of the "shoot, thief, shake, stretch, batch, ride, frame, pinch, blind, cut, The characters of "shoot, thief, shake, stretch, batch, ride, rack, pinch, blind, cut, drop, drown, lose, meat" were all local pronunciations of Zhongxiang. At the end of the 1980s, linguistic experts once again went to Zhongxiang to investigate and found that the pronunciation of the above words was close to that of Putonghua. There are also many words whose pronunciation has changed from dialect to Mandarin.
2, Zhongxiang language is not as sweet and light as Beijing dialect, euphemistic and friendly, and not as fine and delicate as Shanghai dialect, and the whine of the teeth, although the accent is very similar to the Sichuan dialect, but it is not like the Sichuan dialect as the staccato, Zhongxiang language is very simple and honest, the voice tone is flat, and the ups and downs are small.
3. There are two unique and important auxiliary words "da" and "sha" in Zhongxiang dialect. The function of "达" is like "了" in Mandarin, indicating the perfect tense; while "唦" is equivalent to "吗" in Mandarin, except that it is usually used in questioning sentences. ", is usually also used in declarative sentences, such as "I understand the news of my hometown very well, I often go to the window of Zhongxiang sha."
4, such as Beijing dialect, Zhongxiang dialect also contains a large number of children's voice. Such as "today's", "something thing", "interesting live" (interesting), "that ha'er" (there) and so on.
5, Zhongxiang dialect contains a very interesting trill / r /, and this trill / r /, mostly from the end of the word "son" evolution. For example, goat, bun, chair, car, old man, etc. Almost all the words ending in "zi", in Zhongxiang dialect, "zi" has a trill. The trill that often occurs in Russian is a headache for many learners, but for those from Zhongxiang, it's not difficult at all.
6. The Zhongxiang dialect does not distinguish between flat and curly consonants, including n and l, z and zh, c and ch, and s and sh. This is a feature that can be a hindrance when learning Japanese. In addition, the Zhongxiang dialect does not have rhymes corresponding to Mandarin eng, ing, ong, and iong.