Wudang Mountain - Jiuqu Yellow River Wall
Danjiangkou Dam Tourist Area
Wudang Mountain - Golden Dome Scenic Spot
Danjiangkou Dam Tourist Area
Wudang Mountain - Easy Valley Scenic Spot
Shiyan is located in the northwest part of Hubei Province, which is situated in the junction area of E. China, Yu, Chongqing and Shanxi-China. The city governs five counties, one city and two districts, with a total area of 23,700 square kilometers and a population of more than 3.4 million. Shiyan is located in the northern foothills of the Wudang Mountains in the lower mountainous areas, the south bank of the Han River, is the northern subtropical monsoon climate, the average annual temperature of 15.2 degrees Celsius, the average annual rainfall of 828 millimeters.
Shiyan has a long history and splendid culture. It is an important birthplace of the Chinese nation. 1991, archaeologists in Utopia County, Quyuan River, two complete fossilized skulls of the southern ape, named "Utopia Man". Anthropologists believe that this discovery fills the Asian human development "chain" on the vacant link, was listed as the year "world archaeology top ten discoveries" first. The present-day city was named Shiyan in the Qing Dynasty because people dammed the Baiji River and the Mendous River in ten places for irrigation. It is the birthplace of Taoism and "Wudang Fist", Wudang Taoism has a history of thousands of years, Wudang Mountain Ancient Architectural Complex is listed in the World Heritage List by the United Nations.
Shiyan is a modernized industrial city mainly for automobiles. Shiyan is the seat of the headquarters of Dongfeng Motor Company, and the city has nearly 200 automobile and parts manufacturing enterprises headed by Dongfeng Motor Company, with total assets of 44.5 billion yuan and nearly 170,000 employees, and the production capacity of all kinds of automobiles, mainly Dongfeng trucks, is 250,000, and it is one of the three major automobile industry bases in China. It is one of the three major automobile industry bases in China, and enjoys the reputation of "Hundred Miles Car City" and "China Detroit" at home and abroad.
Shiyan is a large city of mountains and water and a rich city of resources. The land area accounts for one-eighth of the province, known as "eight mountains, one water, one field", landscape resources are very rich. Rich reserves of mineral resources, now proven deposits of turquoise, gold, silver, stone coal, rare earths, iron, tin, vanadium, marble and more than 50 kinds of potential value of more than 400 billion yuan. Abundant hydraulic resources, the average annual flow of 10 billion square meters, transit water 28 billion square meters, the theoretical reserves of hydroelectric resources amounted to 5 million kilowatts, of which 340 kilowatts are available for development and utilization; forest resources are famous, tea, edible fungi production is rich in quality, high quality products, Fangxian is known as the country's "home of the swallow ear"; A wide variety of medicinal resources, *** production of more than 2700 kinds of medicinal herbs, in the country to determine the 363 key varieties in the city accounted for about 235 kinds, accounting for 65% of the total, known as the "natural medicine library," known as.
Shiyan is a tourist attraction. It is a bright pearl on the golden tourism line of "Three Gorges of Yangtze River - Shennongjia - Ancient Longzhong - Wudang Mountain - Danjiangkou Reservoir - Ancient Xi'an". There are Wudang Mountain, the holy place of Taoism, which is listed in the list of world cultural heritage and has been awarded the title of 4A-level tourist area, Danjiangkou Reservoir, which is known as the first large artificial lake in Asia, Utopia Ape Man Ruins which is a sensation in China and foreign countries, fossilized dinosaur eggs and fossilized bones of dinosaurs, and it is a rare dinosaur hometown in the world. There are hot springs, waterfalls, Tianchi, canyons, caves, primitive forests, and modern automobile cities. Shiyan is a place where there is no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, no gale in all seasons, beautiful mountains and rivers, pleasant scenery, and is a piece of feng shui treasure that makes people forget to come back.
Shiyan is an ecological barrier. Due to the Qinling and Bashan mountains two mountain ranges in Shiyan intersection, constitutes the geographical boundary between the north and south climate of China. It can resist the sandstorms in the north moving south and east and stop the acid rain in the south moving north and west, therefore, Shiyan is an ecological regulator and the ecological heart of China.
Shiyan has a relatively developed transportation network. A number of large and medium-sized transportation construction projects have been built one after another and successfully completed, and Shiyan's large external channels have been basically opened. Xiangxiang ten highway of the whole line, of which the Wushu section has been completed and opened to traffic, the end of the history of Shiyan city within the territory of the highway; Utopia Temple Road, ten witch road, 316 national highway Shiyan to Baihe section of the completion of the whole line, constitutes the city connected to Wuhan, Xi'an, Chongqing, the three major economic zones of the fast channel. At present, Shiyan to the jurisdiction of the six counties and cities, six counties and cities between and important inter-provincial exit roads have all reached the mountainous areas of the second level road standards, the backbone of the road network, bridge and tunnel gradually supporting a Shiyan as the main control point, to the Han-Ten Expressway as the main axis, to the national and provincial highways, "three longitudinal and three transverse" as the main framework to the county and rural roads as a supplement to the internal smooth outside the connection, convenient and fast Transportation network has been initially formed.
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April 2021, Shiyan City was selected as one of the first 2021 China's top 100 cultural cities.
In March 2021, Shiyan was ranked 162nd on the 2021 Chinese Cities Comprehensive Strength Ranking List.
In January 2021, Shiyan was ranked 113th in the 2020 Chinese Cities Science and Technology Innovation Development Index Ranking.
In December 2020, the Business Environment Ranking of Chinese Cities in 2020 was released, and Shiyan was ranked 54th.
In December 2020, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development named Shiyan as the National Barrier-Free Environment Demonstration City, County, Village and Town.
In November 2020, the Central Civilization Office announced the list of selected cities for the Sixth National Civilized City, and Shiyan was awarded the Sixth National Civilized City.
On October 2020, Shiyan was awarded the title of 2020 National Model City (County) of Double Embrace.
In June 2020, the 2019 China's Best Study Cities Ranking was released, and Shiyan was ranked 101st on the list (representative university: Hubei Institute of Automobile Industry).
In 2020, the 2019 GDP Ranking of Cities in Hubei Province was released, and Shiyan was ranked 8th with 2012.72.
November 2019, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the domestic service industry domestic service industry to improve the quality and expansion of the "frontrunner" action focus on promoting the list of cities (districts), Shiyan city on the list.
In November 2019, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment awarded Shiyan the title of the third batch of national ecological civilization construction demonstration cities and counties.
In July 2019, the National Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine identified Shiyan as a pilot city for the construction of urban medical consortia.
In July 2016, Shiyan City was awarded the title of 2016 National Model City (County) for Double Embrace.