| Daye 大冶 |
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| — County-level city — | |
| 大冶市 | |
| Daye Lake on the southern edge of Daye's urban core | |
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| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hubei |
| Prefecture-level city | Huangshi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,460 km2 (563.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 25 m (82 ft) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 813,600 |
| • Density | 557.3/km2 (1,443.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Website | http://www.hbdaye.gov.cn/ |
Daye (Chinese: 大冶; pinyin: Dàyě) is a city of eastern Hubei province, Central China. Administratively, it is a county-level city of Huangshi City.
Before the adoption of the Hanyu Pinyin, the name of the city was often transcribed in English as Tayeh.[1]
As it is usually the case with county-level cities, Daye includes both an urban core and a fair amount of rural land in all directions, with smaller townships (zhen) such as Dajipu (大箕铺). According to the Fifth Population Census of China (2000), the entire county-level city of Daye had 813,600 residents, with a population density of 558 people per square kilometer.[2]
The city is served by the China National Highway 106 (which coincides in this area with China National Highway 316) and a railway. There are no passenger train stations in Daye, however; passengers must board at the Huansghi station, near Huangshi center city.
The Daye Lake south of Daye's urban core is surrounded by parks and fishing ponds, and is a popular place for recreation.
For a traveler who goes on G316 from Wuhan toward the south-east, Daye appears as a border between more urban and more rural parts of the province. Daye sits on the south-eastern border of the heavily industrialized Wuhan/Ezhou/Huangshi metropolitan area; south of it, the much more rural Yangxin County begins.
The speech of Daye and the adjacent counties farther south (toward the Jiangxi border) has been traditionally characterized as the Daye dialect, part of the Datong dialect group of Gan Chinese.[3]
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Daye is an industrial city, a center of mining[4] and metallurgy; its name means 'Big Smeltery'. Among the major employers is Huangshi Daye Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.[5]
Daye was the junction of the Wuhan-Daye Railway (completed in 1958) and Daye-Shahejie Railway (completed in 1987), which merged in 1989 to form the the Wuhan–Jiujiang Railway.
Daye County existed on and off for centuries; as recently as the WWII period, it included much of today's prefecture-level city of Huangshi. This means that pre-1949 references to a location in "Daye" or "Tayeh" may actually refer to anywhere within today's Huangshi.
Daye County was re-established on June 1, 1962, on a rather smaller scale, as part of Huangshi City. On February 18, 1994 Daye was converted into a county-level city, still within the prefecture-level city of Huangshi.[6]
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