Changsha, also known as Xingcheng, is a prefecture-level city, provincial capital and megacity under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province, and an important central city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River approved by the State Council. * * * governs 6 municipal districts, 2 county-level cities and 1 county, with a total area of 1 18 19 square kilometers and a built-up area of 567.32 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh census, the resident population of Changsha is 1004.308+04. In 2020, Changsha will realize the regional GDP of12142.52 million yuan.
Changsha is located in the middle of China, at the lower reaches of Xiangjiang River, on the western edge of Changliu Basin, north of Xiangdong, east of Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, south of Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, west of Loudi and Yiyang, and north of Yueyang and Yiyang. Changsha is an experimental zone for comprehensive reform of "two-oriented society" in China, an important grain production base in China, and an important node city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It is also a comprehensive transportation hub and a national logistics hub, where Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway, Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway and Chongqing-Xiamen high-speed railway meet.
Changsha is one of the first national historical and cultural cities, and is known as the hometown of Qujia, the famous city of Chu and Han, and Xiaoxiang Bamboo Silk. There are Mawangdui Han Tomb, Siyang Fangzun, Three Kingdoms Wu Bamboo Slips, Yuelu Academy, Tongguan Kiln and other historical sites. Concise the "pragmatic and eclectic" Huxiang culture. Changsha is not only one of the cradles of the Reform Movement and the old democratic revolution in the late Qing Dynasty, but also one of the cradles of new democracy, with celebrities such as Huang Xing, Cai E and Liu Shaoqi emerging.