| Zhuzhou | |
| Settlement Type: | Prefecture-level city |
| Other Name: | Chuchow |
| Native Name: | 株洲市 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Pushpin Map: | China Hunan |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the city centre in Hunan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Hunan |
| Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
| Seat: | Tianyuan District |
| Leader Title: | mayor |
| Leader Name: | Mao Tengfei |
| Area Total Km2: | 11262 |
| Area Urban Km2: | 862.69 |
| Area Urban Footnotes: | (2017)[1] |
| Population As Of: | 2010 census |
| Population Total: | 3855609 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Urban: | 1145100 |
| Population Urban Footnotes: | (2017) |
| Demographics Type2: | GDP[2] |
| Demographics2 Info1: | CN¥ 361.7 billion US$ 53.6 billion |
| Demographics2 Title2: | Per capita |
| Demographics2 Info2: | CN¥ 93,431 US$ 13,893 |
| Timezone: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
| Coor Pinpoint: | Zhuzhou municipal government |
| Coordinates: | 27.829°N 113.133°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Iso Code: | CN-HN-02 |
| P: | Zhūzhōu |
| L: | Stump Island |
| W: | Chu1-chou1 |
Zhuzhou (;),[3] formerly Jianning (建宁), is a prefecture-level city of Hunan Province, China, straddling the Xiang River southeast of the provincial capital, Changsha, and bordering Jiangxi province to the east. It is part of the "Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region, also known as Changzhutan Golden Triangle" (comprising the cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan). The city has jurisdiction over five counties (Yanling, Chaling, Youxian, Liling, Zhuzhou) and four districts (Hetang, Lusong, Shifeng and Tianyuan, a high-tech industrial development zone), and covers an area of 11420km2.[4]
, Zhuzhou had 3,871,100 inhabitants,[5] of whom 1,055,373 lived in the built-up area (4 urban districts). With Xiangtan areas adjoining Zhuzhou due to be agglomerated in a few years' time, the joint built-up area will be home to 2,933,069 inhabitants.Zhuzhou is located in a subtropical monsoon climate zone and with its abundant mineral and organic resources has one of the highest agricultural yields in Hunan province. Zhuzhou is home to a provincial public university of Hunan University of Technology.[6]
Zhuzhou has a humid subtropical climate with long, hot summers, and cool to cold, cloudy, damp winters with occasional snow flurries. Within its administrative area, the annual mean temperature is 17.7 °C (63.9 °F), with the coolest month being January, which averages 5.3 °C (41.5 °F), and the hottest July, at 29.5 °C (85.1 °F).[7]
Zhuzhou city administers five districts, one county-level city and three counties.[8]
Zhuzhou has also establish following administrative areas:
The government of Zhuzhou has a structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China.
The mayor of Zhuzhou is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Zhuzhou or Zhuzhou Municipal Government. However, in the city's dual party-government governing system, the mayor has less power than the Communist Party of Zhuzhou Municipal Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "CPC Party Chief of Zhuzhou" or "Communist Party Secretary of Zhuzhou".
Wu Zhankui served 16 years as the 3rd, 5th and 10th mayor of Zhuzhou from 1953 to 1955, 1956 to 1968, and 1980 to 1983. He is the longest term mayor of Zhuzhou.[10]
| No. | English name | Chinese name | Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yang Dipu | April 1951 | July 1951 | |
| 2 | Chen Jichang | July 1951 | April 1953 | |
| 3 | Wu Zhankui | April 1953 | May 1955 | |
| 4 | Ma Zhuangkun | May 1955 | July 1956 | |
| 5 | Wu Zhankui | July 1956 | January 1968 | |
| 7 | Wang Daju | January 1968 | October 1968 | |
| 8 | Gao Jitang | October 1968 | November 1977 | |
| 9 | Zhou Zheng | November 1977 | June 1980 | |
| 10 | Wu Zhankui | December 1980 | May 1983 | |
| 11 | Xue Houmin | October 1983 | December 1984 | |
| 12 | Zhou Jitai | May 1985 | July 1990 | |
| 13 | July 1990 | January 1993 | ||
| 14 | Wang Tingming | January 1993 | April 2000 | |
| 15 | Xiao Yayu | April 2000 | April 2003 | |
| 16 | Yan Shisheng | April 2003 | April 2007 | |
| 17 | Chen Junwen | April 2007 | April 2008 | |
| 18 | Chen Junwen | January 2008 | April 2008 | |
| 19 | Wang Qun | May 2008 | January 2009 | |
| 20 | Wang Qun | January 2009 | March 2013 | |
| 21 | Mao Tengfei | May 2013 | March 2016 | |
| 22 | Yang Weiguo | May 2016 | July 2021 | |
| 23 | Chen Huiqing | 陈恢清 | August 2021[11] | - |
| No. | English name | Chinese name | Took office | Left office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yang Dipu | April 1951 | July 1951 | ||
| 2 | Chen Jichang | July 1951 | November 1952 | ||
| 3 | Hou Xiyi | December 1952 | June 1954 | ||
| 4 | Wang Zhiguo | June 1954 | September 1954 | ||
| 5 | Ma Zhuangkun | September 1954 | December 1967 | ||
| 6 | Gao Jitang | October 1968 | November 1977 | ||
| 7 | Zhou Zheng | November 1977 | May 1980 | ||
| 8 | Zhu Yuanming | May 1980 | February 1982 | ||
| 9 | Li Zhaomin | February 1982 | May 1983 | ||
| 10 | Sun Wensheng | May 1983 | July 1984 | ||
| 11 | Cao Bochun | July 1984 | May 1990 | ||
| 12 | Zhou Jitai | June 1990 | January 1994 | ||
| 13 | Cheng Xinghan | February 1994 | April 2000 | ||
| 14 | Wang Tingming | April 2000 | March 2003 | ||
| 15 | Xiao Yayu | March 2003 | March 2008 | ||
| 16 | Chen Junwen | March 2008 | April 2013 | ||
| 17 | He Anjie | April 2013 | March 2016 | ||
| 18 | Mao Tengfei | March 2016 | April 2021[12] | ||
| 19 | Cao Huiquan | 曹慧泉 | April 2021 | – |
Zhuzhou is a very important transportation junction in South China. The Beijing–Guangzhou railway and the Shanghai–Kunming railway meet here, which makes Zhuzhou railway station, conveniently located in downtown Zhuzhou, one of the five special class passenger-and-goods transportation stations in China. On average, a train passes through every three minutes. Zhuzhou North Station is the largest goods transportation marshalling station in South China, with 110 trains and more than 30,000 passengers passing through every day.
The Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway serves the city as well. As almost everywhere along this line, the high-speed railway is routed away from the city core. High-speed trains to Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, Xi'an and points in between stop at Zhuzhou West railway station, which is located about 10km (10miles) to the west of downtown Zhuzhou.
As well through its comprehensive railway system, Zhuzhou is connected to the rest of the country by 106 National Highway, 320 National Highway, 211 Provincial Highway, the Beijing–Zhuhai expressway, the Shanghai–Ruili expressway, and three highways linking south Fujian, south Jiangxi and south Hunan Province.
Zhuzhou is 37km (23miles) away from Changsha Huanghua International Airport. It takes about 30 minutes to drive to the airport by the Changsha–Zhuzhou Highway.[13]
The Xiang River (Xiangjiang) flows through Zhuzhou, which makes it one of the eight river ports of Hunan Province.
Phase 1 of the world's first Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) system, opened in 2018 and was later extended. The system uses 300 passenger rubber tyred vehicles capable of both following markings on the roadway and being steered by a driver. It is commonly called either a "guided bus" and a "trackless tram". The system was developed by the CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute.
| Line | System | Locale | Length | Stations | Opened | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Line A1 Chinese: 智能轨道快运A1线[14] | Zhuzhou ART | Zhuzhou | 3.6km (02.2miles) | 4 | 2018-05-18 | |
| Line A2 Chinese: 智能轨道快运A2线 | Zhuzhou ART | Zhuzhou | 7.1km (04.4miles) | 7 + 1 (temporary) | 2021-03-30[15] < | -- Line is designated on route diagrams. |
| Line A3 | Zhuzhou ART | Zhuzhou | 8 | --> |
Zhuzhou is the second largest city in Hunan Province; it is an industrial city with four key industries are metallurgy, machine manufacture, chemicals and building materials.
Zhuzhou became one of the eight key national-wide industrial cities in the 1st Five-Year-Plan. four out of 156 key projects were set up in Zhuzhou. Later on, more than 20 important factories were built in Zhuzhou.
Zhuzhou's high-tech industrial development zone was approved by the State Council in December 1992 and was designated in a 35km2 area next to the Xiang River.[16] The high-tech industrial development zone is located less than 10km (10miles) from China National Highway 320,[17] and provides incentives to encourage investment in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals; construction materials production, food and agricultural processing, heavy industry, and telecommunications equipment production.[17] [18]
This is a list of institutions with full-time bachelor programs in Zhuzhou:
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in China.
Zhuzhou is twinned with: