Jingzhou is located in the rich and beautiful hinterland of Jianghan Plain, which is the geometric center of Chinese territory. The whole city covers an area of 1.4 1 1,000 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over Jingzhou and Shashi, Jiangling, Gongan and Jianli counties as well as Songzi, Shishou and honghu city, with a total population of 6.4 million, including 59 square kilometers in the central city with a population of 750,000. Jingzhou is one of the first 24 historical and cultural cities in the State Council, an excellent tourist city in China, an important port in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a central city in central and southern Hubei and an important industrial production base in Central China.
Jingzhou has a very profound cultural background, and the birthplace of Jingchu culture is Jingzhou. Jingzhou has been an important cultural, military and economic place since ancient times. More than 2,000 years ago, Chu established its capital here for more than 400 years!
Jingzhou and Shashi were both Jingzhou areas in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. At that time, Jingzhou had jurisdiction over 12 county and 1 city, namely Jiangling, Gongan, Songzi, Shishou, Honghu, Jianli, Tianmen, Xiantao, Qianjiang, Jingmen, Zhongxiang, Jingshan and Shashi, which were worthy of the name in terms of region, population and economy.
At that time, the industrial and agricultural output value of Jingzhou accounted for 1.0% of the whole country, equivalent to nearly half of that of Hubei Province. The three major economic regions in China are Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Jianghan Plain. Shashi was demolished and built in the Republic of China. At that time, there were only two cities in Hubei Province, Hankou and Shashi. Furthermore, Shashi and Changsha are the same city, and they are both one of the four rice cities in China.
Shashi later became a provincial city. 1985, its GDP economic strength actually ranked fifth in the country, mainly because of the developed light industry, but now it is at least behind the national 150 and Hubei 5. The industry is not as good as Yichang Xiangfan, and the traffic is half dead. Only information and education are the top three in the province.