Huangshi

This article is about the Hubei city. For other uses, see Huangshi (disambiguation).

Huangshi 黄石
—  Prefecture-level city  —
黄石市
On the Fushui River (Yangxin County)
Location of Huangshi City in Hubei and the PRC
Huangshi Location in Hubei
Coordinates: 30°13′N 115°05′E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hubei
Area
• Prefecture-level city	4,644.75 km2 (1,793.3 sq mi)
• Urban	236 km2 (91.1 sq mi)
• Metro	1,861.8 km2 (718.8 sq mi)
Population (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	2,429,318
• Density	523/km2 (1,354.6/sq mi)
• Urban	621,654
• Urban density	2,634.1/km2 (6,822.4/sq mi)
• Metro	1,498,053
• Metro density	804.6/km2 (2,084/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Website	http://www.huangshi.gov.cn/

Huangshi (simplified Chinese: 黄石; traditional Chinese: 黃石; pinyin: Huángshí) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

Geography and climate

The prefecture-level city of Huangshi is located in southeastern Hubei province, along the southwestern bank of one of the major bends in the Yangtze River. It is located 100 kilometres (62 mi) south-east of Wuhan, and borders Jiangxi province to the south. Its area was reported by the local government as 4,583 square kilometres (1,770 sq mi); elsewhere, the number of 4,630 square kilometres (1,790 sq mi) was given. The terrain is mostly small mountains and hills. The tallest mountain is 7 Summit Mountain with an elevation of 860 metres (2,820 ft) above sea-level. Huangshi is also located in a major lake district between Hunan's Dongting Lake and Jiangxi's Poyang lake and has dozens of large lakes.

Its population is 2,429,318 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 1,098,053 in the built up area made of 4 urban district plus Daye city now being part of the agglomeration.

Huangshi's climate is sub-temperate. Average annual temperature is 17 °C and precipitation is 1400 mm. There are 264 frost free days. It snows between December and February.

Administration

A renovated temple in Longgang Zhen. Yangxin County

Huangshi has 4 districts, 1 development zone, 1 county, and 1 county-level city.

City:

• Daye (大冶市)

Districts:

• Huangshigang District (黄石港区)
• Xisaishan District (西塞山区)
• Xialu District (下陆区)
• Tieshan District (铁山区)

County:

• Yangxin County (阳新县)

Development Zone:

• Huangshi Economic Development Zone (黄石经济开发区)

On the streets of Tieshan

Demographics

According to the Fifth Population Census of China (2000), the entire prefecture-level city of Huangshi had 2,476,400 people, making for the population density of 540 people per square kilometer. More than 99% of the population belong to the Han ethnic group.

According to Google Map there are 686.894 people in Huangshi; this refers, presumably, to Huangshi's urban core (Huangshigang District 196,600 people, density 5757 people /km²; West Fort Mountain (Xisaishan) Area, 244,000, density 2171 people /km²; Xialu District, 146,600 people, density 2536 people /km²), and excludes the far-flung Yangxin County, Daye, and Tieshan.

Economy

A 1915 map of the eastern Hubei section of the Yangtze Valley shows an early railway connecting a mine west of Tieshan with a river port east of today's Huangshi center city

Huangshi's GDP for 2003 was 27.5 billion CNY. Its proximity to Wuhan and location along major rail lines and the Yangtze River make Huangshi an important logistics, distribution, and transportation hub. Mineral resources are plentiful in Huangshi giving it the nickname "The Southern Cornucopia". Metals include iron, manganese, gold, copper, tungsten, molybdenum, zinc, lead, cobalt, silver, gallium, and thallium. Other mineral resources include germanium, indium, selenium, tellurium, sulfur, calcite, limestone, celestine, plaster, and many others.

Agriculture is also a major part of Huangshi's economy. There are more than 3000 species of plants in Huangshi many of them used for food, phamaceuticals, and fragrance.

Other industries include metallurgy, textiles, contsruction materials, energy, light manufacturing, electronics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and food processing.

Transportation

The prefecture-level city is served by China National Highway 106 / 316 and the Wuhan–Jiujiang Railway

Many of the passenger trains traveling between Wuhan (Wuchang station) and the points southeast make stops at the Huangshi and Yangxin stations.

Tourism

A new pagoda in Daye

Huangshi has beautiful natural scenery such as lakes and mountains. One of its more famous sites is Feiyun Cave. As well as Dong Fan Shan (East Mountain) and Ci Lake.

The former eastern pit of the Daye Iron Mine, which was in operation since the 1890s until 2000, has been converted into Huangshi National Mining Park (黄石国家矿山公园), where visitors can see a variety of mining equipment from the past and the present, some of it still operational.

Notable residents

• Cheng Fei, gymnast (b. 1988)

See also

• The Children of Huang Shi

External links

• Official Website(Chinese)