Xiangyang Ancient City
White Water Temple
Shuijingzhuang
Gulongzhong Scenic Area
Xiangyang Ancient City
Xiangyang City governs three districts of Xiangcheng, Fancheng, and Xiangzhou, three counties of Nanzhang, Baokang, and Gucheng, and three municipalities of Zaoyang, Yicheng, and Laohuokou, and it has a state-level Xiangyang High-tech Industry Development Zone and provincial-level Xiangyang Xiangyang Economic and Technological Development Zone (Xiangyang Dongjin New District), Yuliangzhou Economic Development Zone.
The city covers an area of 19,774.41 square kilometers, with 452.2 thousand hectares of arable land in common use, an increase of 2.6 thousand hectares compared with the previous year.
At the end of 2013, the city's household population was 5,950,969, of which the urban population was 1,364,545 (excluding Xiangzhou District, and including the Dongjin New District), accounting for 22.93% of the city's total population. The city's non-agricultural population is 3,118,780, and the city's male population is 3,054,500. The city's resident population is 5.591 million (referring to the population that has been living in the city for more than half a year), and the urbanization rate has reached 54.82%. The birth rate was 11.75 per thousand; the death rate was 3.96 per thousand, and the natural population growth rate was 7.79 per thousand.
In 2013, the city's GDP amounted to 281.4 billion yuan (current price), an increase of 11.4% over the previous year at comparable prices. By industry, the primary industry realized an added value of 38.65 billion yuan, up 4.8% year-on-year; the secondary industry realized an added value of 161.14 billion yuan, up 13.3% year-on-year; and the tertiary industry realized an added value of 81.61 billion yuan, up 10.7% year-on-year. The structure of the three industries is 13.7:57.3:29.0. The consumer price index rose 2.9% year-on-year, or 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous year; the retail price index rose 2.2% year-on-year, or 1.0 percentage point lower than the previous year. Industrial producer factory price index rose 1.8 percentage points lower than the previous year; industrial producer purchase price index rose 0.6 percentage points lower than the previous year.
The city's total local financial revenue of 30.41 billion yuan, an increase of 21.1%. Local public **** budget revenue of 19.15 billion yuan, an increase of 37%. Among them, tax revenue of 14.14 billion yuan, an increase of 32%, accounting for 73.8% of the local public **** budget revenue. State tax revenue of 12.91 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1%; local tax revenue of 14.11 billion yuan, an increase of 32.5%. The balance of local and foreign currency deposits of financial institutions amounted to 218.2 billion yuan, an increase of 36.68 billion yuan over the beginning of the year, of which the balance of personal deposits amounted to 133.26 billion yuan, an increase of 21.7 billion yuan over the beginning of the year. The balance of local and foreign currency loans of financial institutions amounted to 124.48 billion yuan, an increase of 24.55 billion yuan over the beginning of the year, of which the balance of short-term loans amounted to 63.66 billion yuan, an increase of 14.06 billion yuan over the beginning of the year, and the balance of medium- and long-term loans amounted to 59.58 billion yuan, an increase of 9.96 billion yuan over the beginning of the year. The city's premium income of 4.58 billion yuan, an increase of 12.6% year-on-year, of which 1.39 billion yuan of property insurance premium income, an increase of 34.2% year-on-year; personal insurance premium income of 3.19 billion yuan, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year. The annual compensation and benefit expenses amounted to RMB 1.56 billion, a year-on-year increase of 51.8%. Among them, the personal insurance claims and benefits expenditure of 760 million yuan, an increase of 94.9%; property insurance claims expenditure of 800 million yuan, an increase of 25.3%. The city's total local financial expenditures amounted to 36.56 billion yuan, an increase of 16.5 percent year-on-year.
In 2013, the city's total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industry amounted to 67.89 billion yuan, an increase of 5.8% over the previous year. The total output value of agriculture was 31.56 billion yuan, an increase of 3.3% over the previous year. Forestry gross output value of 740 million yuan, an increase of 1.5% over the previous year. The total output value of animal husbandry was 30.07 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5% over the previous year. The total output value of fishery was 2.81 billion yuan, an increase of 1% over the previous year. The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery services was 2.71 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4% over the previous year.In 2013, the city's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery added value amounted to 38.64 billion yuan, an increase of 4.8% over the previous year. The added value of agriculture was 18.6 billion yuan, an increase of 3% over the previous year. Forestry added value of 490 million yuan, an increase of 1% over the previous year. Pastoralism added value of 16.58 billion yuan, an increase of 5.7% over the previous year. Fishery added value of 1.46 billion yuan, an increase of 1% over the previous year. Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery services added value of 1.51 billion yuan, an increase of 4.4% over the previous year.
The city's grain cultivation area of 756.8 thousand hectares, an increase of 5.5 thousand hectares over the previous year; grain production to achieve "ten consecutive increases", annual grain production of 5.028 million tons (10.056 billion pounds), an increase of 0.3% over the previous year; cotton production of 42,000 tons, an increase of 1%; oilseed production of 25.0 million tons, a decline of 1%. Tens of thousands of tons, down 1%; vegetable production of 3.128 million tons, an increase of 4.5%; tea, fruit production reached 11,000 tons and 1.213 million tons, an increase of 4.5% and 4%. The city's pig slaughtered 6,261,000 heads, an increase of 3.9% over the previous year; sheep slaughtered 1,616,000, an increase of 5.3%; cattle slaughtered 666,000, an increase of 6%; poultry slaughtered 90,136,000, an increase of 5.1%; aquatic products production of 189,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 1%.
In 2013, the city's aquaculture stocking area of 48,356 hectares, accounting for 95% of the area of culturable waters; put in 34,093 tons of fish species, an increase of 832 tons over the previous year, an increase of 2.5%; fish species production of 38,425 tons, an increase of 937 tons over the year, an increase of 2.4%; aquatic production of 189,000 tons, an increase of 4,200 tons over the previous year, an increase of 2.3%; aquaculture Production of 172,400 tons, an increase of 3,100 tons over the previous year, an increase of 1.8%; fishing production of 16,637 tons, an increase of 1,174 tons over the previous year; fisheries output value of 314,088,000 yuan, an increase of 779,570,000 yuan over the previous year, an increase of 33%; the main aquaculture water surface average yields of 3,511 kg / hectare. The city completed the fishery "three changes and a building" area of 7500 hectares, of which 1900 hectares of transformation of ponds, transformation of 3233 hectares of fish ponds, transformation of small reservoirs 1234 hectares, the new standardized pollution-free aquatic product base of 1133 hectares, the construction of high-quality aquatic products for export of raw material base of 785 hectares, increased crayfish "Wild foster" area of 967 hectares. Through the "three changes and one building", the annual increase in aquatic products production of 2,600 tons, the output value of 20.8 million yuan.
In 2013, the construction of new rural communities as a way to promote the "synchronization of the four", to promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas as an entry point, adhere to the top-level design, innovative mechanism mechanism, demonstration led to drive a major breakthrough. The "2+9+97" pilot pattern of new rural communities has been established, with one model new rural community in each of the Xiangcheng Yinji Urban and Rural Integration Demonstration Zone and Xiangzhou Shuanggou Modern Agricultural Demonstration Zone, one whole-town advancement demonstration site in each of the nine counties (cities) and 97 townships, each of which is a pilot site. The Shuanggou model featuring "three concentrations" has been explored in traditional agricultural areas, the Yinji model featuring "three transformations" has been explored in the outskirts of cities, and the Weizhuang model featuring "three conversions" has been explored in newly built industrial parks. In addition, the Weizhuang model featuring "three transformations" has been explored in new industrial parks. In addition, we have also explored the "village enterprise *** building" Wolyanggang community model in Chenghe Town, Xiangzhou District, the "green happiness" community model in Yanhe Village, Wushan Town, Gucheng City, the "green happiness" community model in Xinglong Town, Zaoyang City, and the new community model in the center of Shihua Town, Gucheng County, and the poverty alleviation relocation model in Changping Town, Nanzhang County. Dongyuan community model and so on. Constructing the "1+X" service management system and implementing the "one-stop" service. Completed the planning of the 10 towns to promote the preparation of a detailed plan of 128 pilot communities, 113 pilot communities in full swing, has built 22 model communities.
The city's above-scale industrial output value of 472.86 billion yuan, an increase of 19.1%; completed the industrial added value of 137.27 billion yuan, exceeding the provincial government's target of 130 billion yuan, an increase of 13.8% (comparable price), higher than the provincial target of 0.8 percentage points, higher than the average growth rate of the province 2.0 percentage points. Among them: light industry realized added value of 54.22 billion yuan, an increase of 12.4%; heavy industry realized added value of 83.05 billion yuan, an increase of 14.7%. The number of industrial enterprises above the city's scale reached 1,529, a net increase of 260 over the previous year's 1,269. Among them, the output value of more than 100 million yuan of enterprises 926, more than one billion yuan of enterprises 75, more than five billion yuan of enterprises 7, more than ten billion yuan of enterprises 3. The main business income of industrial enterprises above large scale was 419.99 billion yuan, up 21.8% year-on-year; the total profit and tax amounted to 31.36 billion yuan, up 40.2% year-on-year; the total profit amounted to 21.25 billion yuan, up 48.4% year-on-year. Automobile industry realized output value of 151.26 billion yuan, up 13.4%; agricultural products processing industry realized output value of 163.86 billion yuan, up 15.4%; equipment manufacturing, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, electronic information, new energy and new materials, new energy automobile industry realized output value of 70.98 billion yuan, 50.06 billion yuan, 33.97 billion yuan, 16.29 billion yuan, and 2.41 billion yuan, up 28%, 32%, and 2.41 billion yuan, respectively. Year-on-year growth of 28%, 32%, 25.4%, 10.4% and 54.5% respectively. The city's industrial enterprises above designated size produced 113,000 kiloliters of liquor, an increase of 26% year-on-year; yarn production of 634,000 tons, an increase of 16.1% year-on-year; cloth production of 2.08 billion meters, an increase of 7.6% year-on-year; clothing production of 160,833,000 pieces, an increase of 1.9% year-on-year; production of 374,000 tons of fertilizers, a decline of 9.1% year-on-year; cement production of 10,477,000 tons, an increase of 15.5%; automobile production of 15.5%. 15.5%; automobile production of 140,000 units, down 13.9%; power generation of 13.16 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 11.7%. The city's social electricity consumption of 12.39 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 10.2%, of which, industrial electricity consumption of 8.47 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 7.6%. The city's construction industry realized an added value of 14.09 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.3%.
The city's investment in fixed assets amounted to 208.66 billion yuan, an increase of 30.4% year-on-year, of which 1998.06 billion yuan was invested in fixed assets, an increase of 29.9% year-on-year. The city's construction projects under construction in 2008, of which, 1,338 new projects. The city's primary industry completed investment of 5.29 billion yuan, down 5% year-on-year. The secondary industry completed investment of 104.44 billion yuan, an increase of 23.2%, of which 104.37 billion yuan of industrial investment, an increase of 23.2%; the tertiary industry completed investment of 90.13 billion yuan, an increase of 41.9%. Private investment completed 161.27 billion yuan, an increase of 37.1%. Development Zone completed investment of 113.53 billion yuan, an increase of 20.7%. Real estate development completed investment of 30.19 billion yuan, an increase of 62.2%. The construction of key projects is progressing well. The city's 182 provincial and municipal key projects started 180, start rate of 98.9%, realizing an investment of 83.55 billion yuan to complete the annual investment plan. The city's real estate development investment of 30.19 billion yuan, an increase of 62.2%. Housing construction area of 20.52 million square meters, up 44.6% year-on-year, commercial property sales area of 6.63 million square meters, up 33.2% year-on-year. Among them, residential sales area of 5.869 million square meters, an increase of 30.6%; 26.3 billion yuan in sales of commercial properties, an increase of 47.3%.
The five types of market players registered 119,000 new households, an increase of 77.6% year-on-year; the total number of market players at the end of the period amounted to 300,000, an increase of 28.1% year-on-year; the new registered capital of 48.13 billion yuan, an increase of 58.5% year-on-year. The city signed 1135 new projects, an increase of 112.5%; total investment of 735.84 billion yuan, an increase of 53.9%. Among them, 650 industrial projects, up 72.9%. *** for all kinds of land plan 2,317 hectares, the actual land supply of 2,618 hectares, of which 1,115 hectares of industrial land. New area construction is advancing steadily, Dongjin New Area, two bridges and two loop control project is basically completed, the core area infrastructure to achieve full coverage, the starting area of the backbone of the road network is basically completed, 800,000 square meters of resettlement housing main body is completed, the ten major public **** project 9 started construction; "two changes and two relocations" in an orderly manner to promote the center of the urban area, "two changes", "two changes", "two changes", "two changes", "two changes", the center of the urban area, "two changes", "two changes", "two changes", the center of the central city. "Two changes" project 27 started, 2 completed, started construction of 3.08 million square meters of resettlement housing, the inner ring line within the industrial enterprises relocation completed 31, is moving 36, professional market transfer docking basically in place; the central city city city roads project results, the inner ring line is fully open, Dongjin Bridge, Wolong Bridge, Tang White River Bridge, Shengli Street overpass was opened to traffic, comprehensive improvement of Shennan Avenue and Xiangnan Landscape Avenue and other four exit road construction completed, the construction of the north-south axis of rapid progress.
The city's total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 92.55 billion yuan, up 14.9% year-on-year. Urban and rural areas, the urban consumer goods market realized retail sales of 84.07 billion yuan, an increase of 15.8% year-on-year; the rural consumer goods market realized retail sales of 8.48 billion yuan, an increase of 14% year-on-year. Among them, enterprises above the quota realized retail sales of consumer goods of 47.81 billion yuan, up 17.9% year-on-year. The city's foreign trade imports and exports totaled 161,976,000 U.S. dollars, an increase of 28.8%. Among them, the total amount of foreign trade exports 1434.29 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 34.6%; the total amount of imports 185.47 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decline of 3.7%. The city newly approved 24 foreign-funded enterprises, down 7.7% year-on-year; the actual foreign direct investment of 537.46 million U.S. dollars, up 27.6% year-on-year. Xiangyang's consumer price index rose 2.9 percent year-on-year, an increase of 0.1 percentage points, including a 2.8 percent rise in December.
The balance of local and foreign currency deposits of financial institutions reached 218.2 billion yuan, an increase of 36.68 billion yuan from the beginning of the year; the balance of local and foreign currency loans of financial institutions reached 124.48 billion yuan, an increase of 24.55 billion yuan from the beginning of the year. 27 equity investment institutions invested in Xiangyang, 34 enterprises were listed on Wuhan Equity Trust and Exchange Center, and the third phase of the 1.5-billion yuan Xiangtou Bond was successfully issued. "The third phase of Xiangtou Bonds was successfully issued.
The city's highway mileage is 26,247.3 kilometers, of which 24,714.0 kilometers of graded highways are open to traffic. Annual completion of county and township highway reconstruction 123.4 kilometers, 694 kilometers of village highway, the basic realization of village to village. There are 71 township five-level stations, 2,021 simple stations and greeting stations. There are 458 newly developed rural passenger transportation lines, and the rate of village buses has reached 100%. The capacity of transportation safety and service guarantee has been further improved. The city's road cargo turnover amounted to 22.19 billion tons of kilometers, an increase of 17.9% year-on-year, while the road passenger turnover amounted to 8.99 billion passenger kilometers, an increase of 16.1% year-on-year. Xiangyang Airport's accessibility has been significantly enhanced, with 13 routes now open, and a total of 8,724 transport movements completed throughout the year, an increase of 41% year-on-year; passenger throughput exceeding 600,000, reaching 601,000, an increase of 50% year-on-year; and cargo and mail throughput of 2,151.5 tons, an increase of 110% year-on-year.
The city's postal service totaled 340 million yuan, the city's end of the year 4.138 million cell phone subscribers, 748,000 fixed-line telephone subscribers, the end of the year 620,000 Internet broadband access users. The total number of tourists in the year was 28.291 million, an increase of 20.2% year-on-year. Among them, the number of inbound tourists was 49,000, up 0.8% year-on-year; the number of domestic tourists was 28,242,000, up 20.2% year-on-year. Total tourism revenue of 18.09 billion yuan, an increase of 20%, of which, inbound tourism revenue of 29.861 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 1.3%; domestic tourism revenue of 17.9 billion yuan, an increase of 20.3%.
The city's new 69 high-tech enterprises, the year **** 194 projects were included in the national or provincial science and technology programs, the city **** applied for patents 5347, utility model patents 2971, design patents 343, invention patents 2033. The city's high-tech industry added value of 49.42 billion yuan, an increase of 16.6%. Among them, the high-tech manufacturing industry realized an added value of 49.19 billion yuan, an increase of 16.7%.
In 2013, 36 urban and rural kindergartens were newly built or renovated and expanded, basically realizing a public central kindergarten in each township; the standardization of 200 urban and rural compulsory education schools was completed; the quality of senior high school education ranks steadily at the forefront of the province, and the five main indicators such as the rate of high school entrance exams ranked the first in the province for the eighth consecutive year; the development of higher education and vocational education is accelerating, the Hubei Institute of Arts and Sciences Polytechnic College, the new campus and Xiangyang Automobile Vocational College. The development of higher education and vocational education has been accelerated, with the new campuses of Hubei College of Arts and Sciences and Xiangyang Automobile Vocational and Technical College being put into use, and the construction of the new campus of Xiangyang Institute of Technology commencing. There are 1,362 schools at all levels in the city, with 803,000 students. Among them, there are 5 ordinary colleges and universities with 65,000 students; 36 secondary vocational schools with 27,000 students; 237 ordinary middle schools with 236,000 students; and 456 elementary school with 321,000 students. The city has 51,000 full-time teachers.
The city, county, township, village four-level public **** cultural network service system has been initially formed, the city "two museums, a hospital, a center and a school" (new museum, new library, Xiangyang Grand Theater, culture and art centers, Xiangyang School of the Arts) and other major public **** cultural facilities and construction projects are being pushed forward in an orderly manner. The city has 8 professional performing arts groups, 10 cultural centers, 7 museums, and 9 public libraries with a collection of 1,580,000 books. The comprehensive population coverage rate of radio is 98.8%; the comprehensive coverage rate of TV is 99.1%. The city's cable radio and television subscribers 620,000 households. 30 new urban community mobile bookstations were built throughout the year. The city planned and hosted 1,991 performances and sent 1,716 plays to the countryside.
The city **** there are 3367 health institutions, of which, 208 hospitals, health centers, disease control centers (epidemic prevention stations) 8, 8 Health Supervision Bureau, 8 maternal and child health centers; health institutions, 27480 beds; health institutions, 36,178 people, of which, 30,880 health professionals, 10,211 practicing physicians, registered nurses (nurses) 10979.
The national fitness activities are flourishing, and the creation of bases has achieved remarkable results. Newly built 112.4 kilometers of greenway throughout the year **** held more than 100 national fitness activities at all levels, the number of participants nearly 100,000 people; annual organization to cultivate social sports instructors at all levels 2,347 people, of which 227 first-class social sports instructors, second-class social sports instructors 431 people, third-class social sports instructors 1,689 people; 25 athletes were selected by the delegation of Hubei to participate in the 12th National Games 8 major events. National Games in eight major competitions.
There were 113,000 newly employed people in cities and towns, 69,000 rural laborers were employed, and the registered unemployment rate in cities and towns was 3.7%. The city's unemployed re-employed 32,000 people, 16,000 people with employment difficulties were employed, 3,317 public welfare jobs were developed, and 450 million yuan of micro-guaranteed loans were issued.
The city's per capita disposable income of urban residents was 19,329 yuan, an increase of 10.3 percent year-on-year, of which the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 20,993 yuan, an increase of 10.2 percent year-on-year. The city's urban per capita housing construction area of 41.9 square meters, family Engel's coefficient of 39.89%. The city's rural residents per capita net income of 9,785 yuan, an increase of 12.7%. Rural per capita housing area of 42.2 square meters, family Engel's coefficient of 39.49%.
The comprehensive renewal rate of urban and rural residents' pension insurance was 99%; the number of participants in the city's five social insurance programs reached 4.17 million. Introduced the implementation of urban residents' major medical insurance; enterprise retiree pensions "nine consecutive adjustments", the city's per capita monthly pension of 1,547 yuan (1,661 yuan at the municipal level). Started construction of various types of protected housing 48,385 units, allocated 16,855 units, the new rental subsidies for 5,000 households, completed the relocation of poverty alleviation, rural dilapidated housing and special hardship households 11,117 households in the city's New Rural Co-operation Participation Rate of 99.3%, 131 publicly-run primary health care institutions and 2,470 village clinics to use the basic medicines to implement the zero-differential-rate sales, the coverage rate of 100%; non-governmental primary health care institutions to implement the basic medicines, coverage of 100%; and the implementation of the basic drugs. Pilot projects to implement the basic drug system in non-government-run primary medical and health-care institutions are progressing in an orderly manner. The rate of subsidized enrollment and participation of urban and rural low-income insurance recipients has reached 100 per cent. A mechanism has been established for the dynamic adjustment of low-income insurance standards and subsidy levels, and a medical assistance system for serious and serious illnesses has been explored, with 18 types of illnesses being included in the scope of assistance, and the proportion of hospitalization assistance being raised to 70 per cent; the cap on hospitalization medical assistance for ordinary illnesses has been raised to 7,000 yuan, and that for serious and serious illnesses has been raised to 30,000 yuan. The minimum living standard for urban residents has been adjusted from 380 yuan to 430 yuan per month, and the minimum living standard for rural residents has been adjusted from 150 yuan to 180 yuan per month; the standard for the five guarantees of support in rural areas has been raised sharply, with the standard for centralized support raised from 2,100 yuan to 4,400 yuan per year, and the standard for decentralized support raised from 1,800 yuan to 3,000 yuan per year. In response to natural disasters, 8,377 people were relocated in emergencies, and 62.08 million yuan was spent on arranging funds for the livelihood of disaster victims.
In 2013, the number of days with good ambient air quality in the urban area was 314 (PM10), accounting for 86.7% of the annual number of days. The water quality of the main stream of the Han River remained good, in line with the requirements of the functional zoning, and the water quality of most of the tributaries of the Han River generally improved compared with the previous. The total emission reduction of major pollutants has been promoted. Preliminary estimates, the city's main pollutants in 2013 chemical oxygen demand emissions than the previous year by 0.37%, ammonia nitrogen emissions than the previous year by 2.1%. Sulfur dioxide emissions than the previous year by 5.3%, nitrogen oxide emissions than the previous year by 0.57%. The city **** all kinds of production and safety accidents occurred 197, 134 people were injured, direct economic losses of 11.622 million yuan, down 5.7%, 8.2% and 1.9%, respectively, and the death of 117 people, up 4.5% year-on-year.
In April 2021, Xiangyang was ranked 65th in the 2021 National City Communication Heat Ranking (prefecture-level cities).
In March 2021, Xiangyang was ranked 92nd in the 2021 Chinese City Comprehensive Strength Ranking List.
In January 2021, Xiangyang was ranked 80th in the 2020 Chinese Cities Science and Technology Innovation Development Index Ranking.
In January 2021, the Central Civilization Office determined the list of nominated cities for the 2021-2023 creation cycle of national civilized cities, and Xiangyang was on the list.
In December 2020, the list of China's safest cities in 2020 was released, and Xiangyang was ranked 23rd.
December 2020, 2020 China's City Business Environment Ranking was released, and Xiangyang was ranked 172nd.
December 2020, the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism identified Xiangyang as the fourth batch of national tourism standardization demonstration units.
In October 2020, Xiangyang City was honored as the 2020 National Model City (County) of Double Embrace.
October 2020, "2020 China's Top 100 Blue Sky Cities List" was released, and Xiangyang City ranked 152nd.
In September 2020, the Walton Institute of Economic Research released the "2020 China's Top 100 Cities List", and Xiangyang was ranked 65th.
In July 2020, the "2020 National Netroots Cities Ranking" was released, and Xiangyang was ranked 82nd on the list.
In June 2020, the 2019 China's Best Study Cities Ranking was released, and Xiangyang City ranked 167th on the list (representative university: Hubei College of Arts and Sciences).
In 2020, the 2019 GDP Ranking of Cities in Hubei Province was released, and Xiangyang City was ranked No. 2 with 4,812.84.
July 2019, the National Health and Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine identified Xiangyang as a pilot city for the construction of urban medical consortia.
In June 2017, the Food Safety Office of the State Council awarded Xiangyang as a national food safety model city.
In July 2016, Xiangyang City was honored as the 2016 National Model City (County) of Double Embrace.