Jingzhou City, the ancient name of Jiangling, Yingdu, is a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, the State Council approved the determination of the central city of Ezhongnan region, one of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River transportation hub . The city **** jurisdiction of two municipal districts, four county-level cities, two counties, with a total area of 14,100 square kilometers, According to the seventh census data, as of zero hour on November 1, 2020, Jingzhou City, the resident population of 5,231,180 people. In 2020, the gross regional product of Jingzhou City was 236.904 billion yuan.
Jingzhou is located in central China, south-central Hubei, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the hinterland of the Jianghan Plain, and was the seat of the capital city of the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it is one of the first 24 national historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council, an excellent tourist city in China, a national garden city, an important comprehensive transportation hub and a port city on the Yangtze River.
Jingzhou is a national historical and cultural city, a riverside city where ancient culture and modern civilization meet. "Yu delineated the nine states, and there was Jingzhou at the beginning", and the history of the founding of Jingzhou is more than 3,000 years long. Since 689 B.C., when the state of Chu built its capital in Jinan City, there have been 6 dynasties and 34 emperors who built their capitals here. From Sun Shou Ao, "the first official in the world", to Zhang Juzheng, the first minister of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, 138 prime ministers have gone out from Jingzhou. From the patriotic poet Qu Yuan to Li Bai and Du Fu, a large number of literati and writers have composed poems and songs in Jingzhou.
July 1949, Jingzhou Prefecture, Jingmen, Jingshan, Zhongxiang, Tianmen, Qianjiang, Public Security, Songzi (in the town of Xinjiangkou), Jiangling and other 8 counties, the special office in Jingzhou Town, Jiangling County; in the same month, the analysis of the town of Shashi, Jiangling County, Shashi City, belonging to the provincial municipality. In the same year, set up Shinyang Prefecture, Special Department in Shinyang County (in 1951 in Shinyang County, Xindi Town), jurisdiction of Shinyang (in Xiantao Town), Hanchuan, Hanyang (in Caidian Town), Jiayu, Puqi, Supervision, Shishou and other 7 counties and Xindi Office.
In 1950, the Xindi Office was abolished, and Xindi Town was reorganized under the leadership of Shinyang County.
In 1951, the Shinyang Prefecture was abolished, and 3 counties, namely Shinyang (in Xiantao Town), Jianli and Shishou, were assigned to the Jingzhou Prefecture; 2 counties, namely Hanchuan and Hanyang, were assigned to the Xiaogan Prefecture; and 2 counties, namely Jiayu and Puqi, were assigned to the Daye Prefecture.
Jingzhou is located at longitude 111°15°-114°05°E and latitude 29°26°-31°37°N. It is in the south-central part of Hubei Province. Located in the south-central part of Hubei Province, in the hinterland of the Jianghan Plain, the Yangtze River runs across the city from west to east, with a total length of 483 kilometers. Jingzhou is connected to Wuhan in the east, Yichang in the west, Changde in Hunan in the south and Jingmen and Xiangyang in the north. It has a total area of 14,100 square kilometers