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HubeiTemplate:Efn is a province in Central China. It has the seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland provinces. Its provincial capital at Wuhan serves as a major political, cultural, and economic hub for the region.
Hubei is associated with the historical state of E that existed during the Western Zhou dynasty (Template:CircaTemplate:Snd771 BCE). Its name means 'north of the lake', referring to Dongting Lake.<ref>Template:In lang Origin of the Names of China's Provinces Template:Webarchive, People's Daily Online.</ref> It borders Henan to the north, Anhui and Jiangxi to the east, Hunan to the south, and Chongqing and Shaanxi to the west. The high-profile Three Gorges Dam is located at Yichang in the west of the province.
HistoryEdit
Template:More citations needed section The Hubei region was home to sophisticated Neolithic cultures.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> By the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC), the territory of today's Hubei formed part of the powerful State of Chu. Chu, nominally a tributary state of the Zhou dynasty, was itself an extension of the Chinese civilization that had emerged some centuries before in the north; but Chu also represented a culturally unique blend of northern and southern culture, and it developed into a powerful state that controlled much of the middle and lower Yangtze River, with its power extending northwards into the North China Plain.<ref>Constance A. Cook and John S. Major, eds. Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China, (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999); Lothar von Falkenhausen, Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2006), 262–88.</ref>
During the Warring States period (475–221 BC) Chu became the major adversary of the upstart State of Qin to the northwest (in present-day Guanzhong, Shaanxi province), which began to assert itself by outward expansionism. As wars between Qin and Chu ensued, Chu lost more and more land: first its dominance over the Sichuan Basin, then (in 278 BC) its heartland, which correspond to modern Hubei.<ref>《韩非子·初见秦》：秦与荆人战，大破荆，袭郢，取洞庭、五渚、江南。荆王君臣亡走，东服于陈。</ref><ref>《史记·卷七十三·白起王翦列传》：其明年，攻楚，拔郢，烧夷陵，遂东至竟陵。楚王亡去郢，东走徙陈。</ref> In 223 BC Qin chased down the remnants of the Chu regime, which had fled eastwards during Qin's wars of uniting China.<ref>《史记·卷七十三·白起王翦列传》：王翦果代李信击荆。荆闻王翦益军而来，乃悉国中兵以拒秦。王翦至，坚壁而守之，不肯战。荆兵数出挑战，终不出。王翦日休士洗沐，而善饮食抚循之，亲与士卒同食。久之，王翦使人问军中戏乎？对曰：“方投石超距。”于是王翦曰：“士卒可用矣。”荆数挑战而秦不出，乃引而东。翦因举兵追之，令壮士击，大破荆军。至蕲南，杀其将军项燕，荆兵遂败走。秦因乘胜略定荆地城邑。岁馀，虏荆王负刍，竟平荆地为郡县。。</ref>
Qin founded the Qin dynasty in 221 BC, the first unified dynasty in China. The Qin dynasty was succeeded in 206 BC by the Han dynasty, which established the province (zhou) of Jingzhou in today's Hubei and Hunan. The Qin and Han played an active role in the extension of farmland in Hubei, maintaining a system of river dikes to protect farms from summer floods.<ref>Brian Lander. State Management of River Dikes in Early China: New Sources on the Environmental History of the Central Yangzi Region . T'oung Pao 100.4-5 (2014): 325–362.</ref> Towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty in the beginning of the 3rd century, Jingzhou was ruled by regional warlord Liu Biao. After his death in 208, Liu Biao's realm was surrendered by his successors to Cao Cao, a powerful warlord who had conquered nearly all of north China; but in the Battle of Red Cliffs (208 or 209), warlords Liu Bei and Sun Quan drove Cao Cao out of Jingzhou. Liu Bei then took control of Jingzhou and appointed Guan Yu as administrator of Xiangyang (in modern Xiangyang, Hubei) to guard Jing province; he went on to conquer Yizhou (the Sichuan Basin), but lost Jingzhou to Sun Quan; for the next few decades Jingzhou was controlled by the Wu Kingdom, ruled by Sun Quan and his successors.<ref>《三国志·吴书·卷54/周瑜鲁肃吕蒙传·吕蒙传》：蒙入据城，尽得羽及将士家属，皆抚慰，约令军中不得干历人家，有所求取。蒙麾下士，是汝南人，取民家一笠，以覆官铠，官铠虽公，蒙犹以为犯军令，不可以乡里故而废法，遂垂涕斩之。于是军中震栗，道不拾遗。蒙旦暮使亲近存恤耆老，问所不足，疾病者给医药，饥寒者赐衣粮。羽府藏财宝，皆封闭以待权至。羽还，在道路，数使人与蒙相闻，蒙辄厚遇其使，周游城中，家家致问，或手书示信。羽人还，私相参讯，咸知家门无恙，见待过于平时，故羽吏士无鬬心。会权寻至，羽自知孤穷，乃走麦城，西至漳乡，众皆委羽而降。权使朱然、潘璋断其径路，即父子俱获，荆州遂定。</ref>
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The incursion of northern nomadic peoples into the region at the beginning of the 4th century (Five Barbarians' rebellion and Disaster of Yongjia (永嘉之乱)) began nearly three centuries of division into a nomad-ruled (but increasingly Sinicized) north and a Han Chinese-ruled south. Hubei, to the south, remained under southern rule for this entire period, until the unification of China by the Sui dynasty in 589. In 617 the Tang dynasty replaced Sui, and later on the Tang dynasty placed present-day Hubei under the jurisdiction of several circuits: Jiangnanxi Circuit in the south; Shannandong Circuit (山南东道) in the west, and Huainan Circuit in the east. After the Tang dynasty disintegrated in the early 10th century, Hubei came under the control of several regional regimes: Jingnan in the center, Yang Wu and its successor Southern Tang to the east, the Five Dynasties to the north and Shu to Shizhou (施州, in modern Enshi, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Citation needed
The Song dynasty reunified the region in 982 and placed most of Hubei into Jinghubei Circuit, a longer version of Hubei's current name. Mongols conquered the region in 1279, and under their rule the province of Huguang was established, covering Hubei, Hunan, and parts of Guangdong and Guangxi.Template:Citation needed During the Mongol rule, in 1331, Hubei was devastated by an outbreak of the Black Death, which reached England, Belgium, and Italy by June 1348, and which, according to Chinese sources, spread during the following three centuries to decimate populations throughout Eurasia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The Ming dynasty (1368–1644) drove out the Mongols in 1368. Their version of Huguang province was smaller, and corresponded almost entirely to the modern provinces of Hubei and Hunan combined. Hubei lay geographically outside the centers of the Ming power. During the last years of the Ming, today's Hubei was ravaged several times by the rebel armies of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng. The Manchu Qing dynasty which took control of much of the region in 1644, soon split Huguang into the modern provinces of Hubei and Hunan. The Qing dynasty, however, continued to maintain a Viceroy of Huguang, one of the most well-known viceroys being Zhang Zhidong (in office between 1889 and 1907), whose modernizing reforms made Hubei (especially Wuhan) into a prosperous center of commerce and industry. The Huangshi/Daye area, south-east of Wuhan, became an important center of mining and metallurgy.Template:Citation needed
In 1911, the Wuchang Uprising took place in modern-day Wuhan. The uprising started the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China. In 1927 Wuhan became the seat of a government established by left-wing elements of the Kuomintang, led by Wang Jingwei; this government later merged into Chiang Kai-shek's government in Nanjing. During World War II the eastern parts of Hubei were conquered and occupied by Japan, while the western parts remained under Chinese control.Template:Citation needed
During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, Wuhan saw fighting between rival Red Guard factions. In July 1967, civil strife struck the city in the Wuhan Incident ("July 20th Incident"), an armed conflict between two hostile groups who were fighting for control over the city at the height of the Cultural Revolution.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
As the fears of a nuclear war increased during the time of Sino-Soviet border conflicts in the late 1960s, the Xianning prefecture of Hubei was chosen as the site of Project 131, an underground military-command headquarters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The province—and Wuhan in particular—suffered severely from the 1954 Yangtze River Floods. Large-scale dam construction followed, with the Gezhouba Dam on the Yangtze River near Yichang started in 1970 and completed in 1988; the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, further upstream, began in 1993. In the following years, authorities resettled millions of people from western Hubei to make way for the construction of the dam. A number of smaller dams have been constructed on the Yangtze's tributaries as well.Template:Citation needed
The Xianning Nuclear Power Plant is planned in Dafanzhen, Tongshan County, Xianning, to host at least four 1,250-megawatt (MW) AP1000 pressurized-water reactors. Work on the site began in 2010; plans envisaged that the first reactor would start construction in 2011 and go online in 2015. However, construction of the first phase had yet to start Template:As of.Template:Citation needed
On 1 December 2019, the first case of COVID-19 in the COVID-19 pandemic was identified in the city of Wuhan. In January 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus was officially identified, leading local and federal governments to implement massive quarantine zones across Hubei province, especially in the capital Wuhan (the epicenter of the outbreak). Authorities partially or fully locked down 15 cities, directly affecting 57 million people. Following severe outbreaks in numerous other countries, including in different areas of the world, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. However, after more than eight weeks, the lockdown on most cities in the province was lifted.Template:Citation needed
GeographyEdit
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{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} }} The Jianghan Plain takes up most of central and southern Hubei, while the west and the peripheries are more mountainous, with ranges such as the Wudang Mountains, the Jing Mountains, the Daba Mountains, and the Wu Mountains (in rough north-to-south order). The Dabie Mountains lie to the northeast of the Jianghan Plain, on the border with Henan and Anhui; the Tongbai Mountains lie to the north on the border with Henan; to the southeast, the Mufu Mountains form the border with Jiangxi. The highest peak in Hubei is Shennong Peak, found in the Daba Mountains of the forestry area of Shennongjia; it has an altitude of 3105 m.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The two major rivers of Hubei are the Yangtze River and its left tributary, the Han River; they lend their names to the Jianghan Plain – Jiang representing the Yangtze and han representing the Han River. The Yangtze River enters Hubei from the west via the Three Gorges; the eastern half of the Three Gorges (Xiling Gorge and part of Wu Gorge) lie in western Hubei, while the western half is in neighbouring Chongqing. The Han River enters the province from the northwest. After crossing most of the province, the two great rivers meet at the center of Wuhan, the provincial capital.
Among the notable tributaries of the Yangtze within the province are the Shen Nong Stream (a small northern tributary, severely affected by the Three Gorges Dam project); the Qing, a major waterway of southwestern Hubei; the Huangbo near Yichang; and the Fushui River in the southeast.Template:Citation needed
Thousands of lakes dot the landscape of Hubei's Jianghan Plain, giving Hubei the name of "Province of Lakes"; the largest of these lakes are Liangzi Lake and Hong Lake. The numerous hydrodams have created a number of large reservoirs, the largest of which is the Danjiangkou Reservoir on the Han River, on the border between Hubei and Henan.Template:Citation needed
Hubei has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa or Cwa under the Köppen climate classification), with four distinct seasons. Winters are cool to cold, with average temperatures of Template:Convert in January, while summers are hot and humid, with average temperatures of Template:Convert in July; punishing temperatures of Template:Convert or above are widely associated with Wuhan, the provincial capital. The mountainous districts of western Hubei, in particular Shennongjia, with their cooler summers, attract numerous visitors from Wuhan and other lowland cities.Template:Citation needed
Besides the capital Wuhan, other important cities are Jingmen; Shiyan, a center of automotive industry and the gateway to the Wudang Mountains; Yichang, the main base for the gigantic hydroelectric projects of southwestern Hubei; and Shashi.Template:Citation needed
Administrative divisionsEdit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Hubei is divided into thirteen prefecture-level divisions (of which there are twelve prefecture-level cities (including a sub-provincial city) and one autonomous prefecture), as well as three directly administered county-level cities (all sub-prefecture-level cities) and one directly administered county-level forestry area. At the end of 2017, the total population was 59.02 million.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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| 420000 | Hubei Province | 185,900.00 | 57,237,740 | Wuhan city | 39 | 35 | 2 | 27 | |||
| 420100 | Wuhan city | 8,549.09 | 9,785,392 | Jiang'an District | 13 | ||||||
| 420200 | Huangshi city | 4,582.85 | 2,429,318 | Xialu District | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 420300 | Shiyan city | 23,674.41 | 3,340,843 | Maojian District | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 420500 | Yichang city | 21,227.00 | 4,059,686 | Xiling District | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 420600 | Xiangyang city | 19,724.41 | 5,500,307 | Xiangcheng District | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 420700 | Ezhou city | 1,593.54 | 1,048,672 | Echeng District | 3 | ||||||
| 420800 | Jingmen city | 12,192.57 | 2,873,687 | Dongbao District | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 420900 | Xiaogan city | 8,922.72 | 4,814,542 | Xiaonan District | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 421000 | Jingzhou city | 14,068.68 | 5,691,707 | Shashi District | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| 421100 | Huanggang city | 17,446.63 | 6,162,072 | Huangzhou District | 1 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| 421200 | Xianning city | 9,749.84 | 2,462,583 | Xian'an District | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 421300 | Suizhou city | 9,614.94 | 2,162,222 | Zengdu District | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 422800 | Enshi Autonomous Prefecture | 24,061.25 | 3,290,294 | Enshi city | 6 | 2 | |||||
| 429004 | Xiantao city** | 2,538.00 | 1,175,085 | Shazui Subdistrict | 1 | ||||||
| 429005 | Qianjiang city** | 2,004.00 | 946,277 | Yuanlin Subdistrict | 1 | ||||||
| 429006 | Tianmen city** | 2,622.00 | 1,418,913 | Jingling Subdistrict | 1 | ||||||
| 429021 | Shennongjia Forestry District ** | 3,253.00 | 76,140 | Songbai town | 1 | ||||||
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| Hubei Province | lang}} | Húběi Shěng | ||
| Wuhan city | lang}} | Wǔhàn Shì | ||
| Huangshi city | lang}} | Huángshí Shì | ||
| Shiyan city | lang}} | Shíyàn Shì | ||
| Yichang city | lang}} | Yíchāng Shì | ||
| Xiangyang city | lang}} | Xiāngyáng Shì | ||
| Ezhou city | lang}} | Èzhōu Shì | ||
| Jingmen city | lang}} | Jīngmén Shì | ||
| Xiaogan city | lang}} | Xiàogǎn Shì | ||
| Jingzhou city | lang}} | Jīngzhōu Shì | ||
| Huanggang city | lang}} | Huánggāng Shì | ||
| Xianning city | lang}} | Xiánníng Shì | ||
| Suizhou city | lang}} | Suízhōu Shì | ||
| Enshi Autonomous Prefecture | lang}} | Ēnshī Zhōu | ||
| Xiantao city | lang}} | Xiāntáo Shì | ||
| Qianjiang city | lang}} | Qiánjiāng Shì | ||
| Tianmen city | lang}} | Tiānmén Shì | ||
| Shennongjia Forestry District | lang}} | Shénnóngjià Línqū | ||
The thirteen Prefecture and four directly administered county-level divisions of Hubei are subdivided into 103 county-level divisions (39 districts, 24 county-level cities, 37 counties, 2 autonomous counties, 1 forestry district; the directly administered county-level divisions are included here). Those are in turn divided into 1234 township-level divisions (737 towns, 215 townships, nine ethnic townships, and 273 subdistricts).Template:Citation needed
Urban areasEdit
| Population by urban areas of prefecture & county cities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | City | Urban area<ref name ="2010PRCcensus" /> | District area<ref name ="2010PRCcensus" /> | City proper<ref name ="2010PRCcensus">Template:Cite book</ref> | Census date |
| 1 | Wuhan | 7,541,527 | 9,785,388 | 9,785,388 | 2010-11-01 |
| 2 | XiangyangTemplate:Efn | 1,433,057 | 2,199,690 | 5,500,307 | 2010-11-01 |
| 3 | Yichang | 1,049,363 | 1,411,380 | 4,059,686 | 2010-11-01 |
| 4 | Jingzhou | 904,157 | 1,154,086 | 5,691,707 | 2010-11-01 |
| 5 | ShiyanTemplate:Efn | 724,016 | 767,920 | 3,340,841 | 2010-11-01 |
| (5) | Shiyan Template:SmallTemplate:Efn | 173,085 | 558,355 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 6 | Huangshi | 691,963 | 691,963 | 2,429,318 | 2010-11-01 |
| 7 | Tianmen | 612,515 | 1,418,913 | 1,418,913 | 2010-11-01 |
| 8 | Ezhou | 607,739 | 1,048,668 | 1,048,668 | 2010-11-01 |
| 9 | Xiaogan | 582,403 | 908,266 | 4,814,542 | 2010-11-01 |
| 10 | Xiantao | 553,029 | 1,175,085 | 1,175,085 | 2010-11-01 |
| 11 | Hanchuan | 468,868 | 1,015,507 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 12 | Daye | 449,998 | 909,724 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 13 | Zaoyang | 442,367 | 1,004,741 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 14 | Zhongxiang | 439,019 | 1,022,514 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 15 | Qianjiang | 437,757 | 946,277 | 946,277 | 2010-11-01 |
| 16 | Jingmen | 426,119 | 632,954 | 2,873,687 | 2010-11-01 |
| 17 | Suizhou | 393,173 | 618,582 | 2,162,222 | 2010-11-01 |
| 18 | Xianning | 340,723 | 512,517 | 2,462,583 | 2010-11-01 |
| 19 | Enshi | 320,107 | 749,574 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 20 | Macheng | 302,671 | 849,090 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 21 | Yingcheng | 302,026 | 593,812 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 22 | Honghu | 278,685 | 819,446 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 23 | Guangshui | 272,402 | 755,910 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 24 | Songzi | 271,514 | 765,911 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 25 | Wuxue | 270,882 | 644,247 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 26 | Huanggang | 267,860 | 366,769 | 6,162,069 | 2010-11-01 |
| (27) | JingshanTemplate:Efn | 266,341 | 636,776 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 28 | Anlu | 237,409 | 568,590 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 29 | Zhijiang | 218,396 | 495,995 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 30 | Shishou | 213,851 | 577,022 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 31 | Laohekou | 212,645 | 471,482 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 32 | Chibi | 202,542 | 478,410 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 33 | Yicheng | 201,945 | 512,530 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 34 | Lichuan | 195,749 | 654,094 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 35 | Danjiangkou | 190,021 | 443,755 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 36 | Dangyang | 183,823 | 468,293 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
| 37 | Yidu | 176,233 | 384,598 | Template:Small | 2010-11-01 |
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PoliticsEdit
Template:Further Like all governing institutions in mainland China, Hubei has a parallel party-government system,<ref name="PoliticalSystem2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in which the CCP Hubei Provincial Committee Secretary outranks the Governor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The CCP Hubei Provincial Committee acts as the top policy-formulation body, and has control over the Hubei Provincial People's Government.
EconomyEdit
Hubei is often called the "Land of Fish and Rice" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}). Important agricultural products in Hubei include cotton, rice, wheat, and tea, while industries include automobiles, metallurgy, machinery, power generation, textiles, foodstuffs and high-tech commodities.<ref name="thechinaperspective.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Mineral resources that can be found in Hubei in significant quantities include borax, hongshiite, wollastonite, garnet, marlstone, iron, phosphorus, copper, gypsum, rutile, rock salt, gold amalgam, manganese and vanadium. The province's recoverable reserves of coal stand at 548 million tons, which is modest compared to other Chinese provinces. Hubei is well known for its mines of fine turquoise and green faustite.Template:Citation needed
Hubei was a major recipient of China's investment in industrial capacity during the Third Front campaign.<ref name=":6">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp
Since completion in 2012, the Three Gorges Dam in western Hubei provides plentiful hydroelectricity, with an average annual power production of 95 Twh. Existing hydroelectric stations include Gezhouba, Danjiangkou, Geheyan, Hanjiang, Duhe, Huanglongtan, Bailianhe, Lushui and Fushui.
Hubei is the 7th-largest provincial economy of China, the second largest in the Central China region after Henan, the third largest in the South Central China region after Guangdong and Henan and the third largest among inland provinces after Henan and Sichuan. Template:As of, Hubei's nominal GDP was US$787 billion (CNY 5 trillion). Its GDP (nominal) per capita exceeded US$13,000, making it the richest landlocked province, the richest province in the Central China region, and 2nd richest province in South Central China region after Guangdong.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Economic and Technological Development ZonesEdit
- Hubei Jingzhou Chengnan Economic Development Zone was established in 1992 under the approval of Hubei Government. Three major industries include textile, petroleum and chemical processing, with a combined output accounts for 90% of its total output. The zone also enjoys a well-developed transportation network—only Template:Convert to the airport and Template:Convert to the railway station.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone is a national level high-tech development zone. Optical-electronics, telecommunications, and equipment manufacturing are the core industries of Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone (ELHTZ) while software outsourcing and electronics are also encouraged. ELHTZ is China's largest production centre for optical-electronic products with key players like Changfei Fiber-optical Cables (the largest fiber-optical cable maker in China), Fenghuo Telecommunications and Wuhan Research Institute of Post and Telecommunications (the largest research institute in optical telecommunications in China). Wuhan ELHTZ represents the development centre for China's laser industry with key players such as HUST Technologies and Chutian Laser being based in the zone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone is a national level industrial zone incorporated in 1993.<ref name="rightsite1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> Its size is about 10–25 square km and it plans to expand to 25–50 square km. Industries encouraged in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone include automobile production/assembly, biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, chemicals production and processing, food/beverage processing, heavy industry, and telecommunications equipment.
- Wuhan Export Processing Zone was established in 2000. It is located in Wuhan Economic & Technology Development Zone, planned to cover land of Template:Convert. The first Template:Convert area has been launched.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Wuhan Optical Valley (Guanggu) Software Park is in Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone. Wuhan Optics Valley Software Park is jointly developed by East Lake High-Tech Development Zone and Dalian Software Park Co., Ltd.<ref name="RightSite.asia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Xiangyang New & Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
DemographicsEdit
Template:Historical populations Han Chinese form the dominant ethnic group in Hubei. A considerable Miao and Tujia population live in the southwestern part of the province, especially in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
On October 18, 2009, Chinese officials began to relocate 330,000 residents from the Hubei and Henan provinces that will be affected by the Danjiangkou Reservoir on the Han river. The reservoir is part of the larger South-North Water Transfer Project.<ref>China to resettle 330,000 people The Philadelphia Inquirer Template:Webarchive</ref>
ReligionEdit
The predominant religions in Hubei are Chinese folk religions, Taoist traditions and Chinese Buddhism. According to surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009, 6.5% of the population believes and is involved in cults of ancestors, while 0.58% of the population identifies as Christian, declining from 0.83% in 2004.<ref name="Wang2015" /> The reports did not give figures for other types of religion; 92.92% of the population may be either irreligious or involved in worship of nature deities, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, folk religious sects.
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CultureEdit
People in Hubei speak Mandarin dialects; most of these dialects are classified as Southwestern Mandarin dialects, a group that also encompasses the Mandarin dialects of most of southwestern China.Template:Citation needed
Perhaps the most celebrated element of Hubei cuisine is the Wuchang bream, a freshwater bream that is commonly steamed.Template:Citation needed
Types of traditional Chinese opera popular in Hubei include Hanju and Chuju (Template:Zh).
The Shennongjia area is the alleged home of the Yeren, a wild undiscovered hominid that lives in the forested hills.
The people of Hubei are given the uncomplimentary nickname "Nine-headed Birds" by other Chinese, from a mythological creature said to be very aggressive and hard to kill. "In the sky live nine-headed birds. On the earth live Hubei people." (Template:Zh)
Wuhan is one of the major culture centers in China.
Hubei is thought to be the province that originated the card game of dou dizhu.
EducationEdit
As of 2022, Hubei hosts 130 institutions of higher education, ranking sixth together with Hunan (130) among all Chinese provinces after Jiangsu (168), Guangdong (160), Henan (156), Shandong (153), and Sichuan (134).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), Wuhan University and many other institutions in Wuhan make it a hub of higher education and research in China. Wuhan is the city that has the largest college student population in the world (1.3 million) studying in its 89 universities.
UniversitiesEdit
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- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Wuhan University
- Central China Normal University (Huazhong Normal University)
- Wuhan University of Technology
- Huazhong Agricultural University
- Hubei University of Technology
- Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
- China University of Geosciences
- Jianghan University
- Hubei University
- Hubei University of Economics
- Hubei University of Education
- China Three Gorges University (yichang)
- Wuhan Institute of Technology
- Wuhan University of Science and Technology
- Yangtze University
- South-Central University for Nationalities
- Hubei Institute of Fine Arts
- Wuhan Technology and Business University
- Wuhan Technical College of Communications
TransportationEdit
Prior to the construction of China's national railway network, the Yangtze and Hanshui Rivers had been the main transportation arteries of Hubei for many centuries, and still continue to play an important transport role.
Historically, Hubei's overland transport network was hampered by the lack of bridges across the Yangtze River, which divides the province into northern and southern regions. The first bridge across the Yangtze in Hubei, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was completed in 1957, followed by the Zhicheng Bridge in 1971. Template:As of, Hubei had 23 bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River, including nine bridges and three tunnels in Wuhan.
RailEdit
The railway from Beijing reached Wuhan in 1905, and was later extended to Guangzhou, becoming the first north-to-south railway mainline to cross China. A number of other lines crossed the province later on, including the Jiaozuo–Liuzhou railway and Beijing–Kowloon railway, respectively, in the western and eastern part of the province.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen a large amount of new railway construction in Hubei. The Wuhan–Guangzhou high-speed railway, roughly parallel to the original Wuhan-Guangzhou line, opened in late 2009, it was subsequently extended to the north, to Beijing becoming the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway. An east-west high-speed corridor connecting major cities along the Yangtze, the Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu passenger railway was gradually opened between 2008 and 2012, the Wuhan–Yichang railway section of it opening in 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Wuhan–Xiaogan intercity railway was opened in December 2016 and it was extended when the Wuhan–Shiyan high-speed railway opened in November 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=IRG>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
AirEdit
Hubei's main airport is Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. Yichang Sanxia Airport serves the Three Gorges region. There are also passenger airports in Xiangyang, Enshi, and Jingzhou (Shashi Airport, named after the city's Shashi District).
TourismEdit
The province's best-known natural attraction (shared with the adjacent Chongqing municipality) is the scenic area of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze. Located in the far west of the province, the gorges can be conveniently visited by one of the numerous tourist boats (or regular passenger boats) that travel up the Yangtze from Yichang through the Three Gorges and into the neighboring Chongqing municipality.
The mountains of western Hubei, in particular in Shennongjia District, offer a welcome respite from Wuhan's and Yichang's summer heat, as well as skiing opportunities in winter. The tourist facilities in that area concentrate around Muyu in the southern part of Shennongjia, the gateway to Shennongjia National Nature Reserve ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}). Closer to the provincial capital, Wuhan, is the Mount Jiugong (Jiugongshan) national park, in Tongshan County near the border with Jiangxi.
A particular important site of both natural and cultural significance is Mount Wudang (Wudangshan) in the northwest of the province. Originally created early in the Ming dynasty, its building complex has been listed by UNESCO since 1994 as a World Heritage Site.
Other historic attractions in Hubei include:
- The old Jingzhou City
- The Xianling Mausoleum, built by the Ming dynasty Jiajing Emperor for his parents at their fief near Zhongxiang<ref>Eric N. Danielson, "The Ming Ancestor Tomb Template:Webarchive"</ref>
- The Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan
- The Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, with extensive archaeological and cultural exhibits and performance presentations of ancient music and dance. This is one of the best places to learn about the ancient state of Chu, which flourished in the territory of present-day Hubei during the Eastern Zhou dynasty and developed its own unique culture, quite distinct from that of the Shang/Zhou civilization of northern China.
The province also has historical sites connected with China's more recent history, such as the Wuchang Uprising Memorial in Wuhan, Project 131 site (a Cultural-Revolution-era underground military command center) in Xianning, and the National Mining Park ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) in Huangshi.<ref>"Mining for tourism in Hubei" Template:Webarchive, By Li Jing (China Daily). Updated: 2008-09-22</ref>
SportsEdit
Professional sports teams in Hubei include:
- Wuhan Three Towns F.C. plays in Chinese Super League, the highest level football league in China.
Sister State/TwinningEdit
Following a July 1979 State of Ohio Trade Mission to China, Hubei and Ohio formed a sister province-state relationship.<ref name=":05">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp The pairing was based on the fact that both Hubei and Ohio are located in national heartlands, are large industrial areas and transportation hubs, and have significant agricultural sectors.<ref name=":05" />Template:Rp
In 2005, Hubei province signed a twinning agreement with Telemark county of Norway, and a "Norway-Hubei Week" was held in 2007.
See alsoEdit
- 1954 Yangtze River floods
- List of prisons in Hubei
- Major national historical and cultural sites in Hubei
- COVID-19 pandemic
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