Shaoyang

Shaoyang 邵阳市
Prefecture-level city
East Avenue (东大路)
Nickname(s): Baoqing（Chinese：宝庆）
Shaoyang Location of the city centre in Hunan
Coordinates: 27°15′N 111°28′E / 27.250°N 111.467°E / 27.250; 111.467
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
County-level divisions	3 Districts 1 county-level city 7 counties 1 autonomous county
Township-level divisions	21 Subdistricts 97 towns 78 townships 21 ethnic townships
Village-level divisions	335 residential communities 5,551 villages
Area
• Total	20,829.63 km2 (8,042.37 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	7,071,741
• Density	340/km2 (880/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	422000
Area code(s)	0739
Licence plate prefixes	湘E
Administrative division code	430500
ISO 3166-2	CN-43-05

Shaoyang (simplified Chinese: 邵阳; traditional Chinese: 邵陽; pinyin: Shàoyáng) is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan province, People's Republic of China, bordering Guangxi to the south. Shaoyang has a history of 2500 years and remains an important commercial and transportation city in Hunan. It has a city area and 8 suburban counties, with a population of 7.6 million, the largest in Hunan province.

One of the major forest areas in Hunan, Shaoyang has a forest coverage of 42.7%. The 23,000,000 acres (93,000 km²) Nan Shan Pastures is one of the biggest in Southern China which provide dairy products and meat for Hunanese.

Shaoyang is home to Shaoyang University. The school is composed of former Shaoyang Normal College and Shaoyang College.

The Shaoyang dialect of Lou Shao group of dialects of Xiang is generally spoken here.

Climate

Shaoyang has a monsoon-influenced, four-season humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with cool, damp winters, and hot, humid summers. Winter begins relatively dry but not sunny and becomes progressively damper and cloudier; spring brings both the most frequent and heaviest rain of the year. Summer is comparatively sunny, while autumn is somewhat dry. The monthly 24-hour average temperatures ranges from 5.2 °C (41.4 °F) in January to 28.2 °C (82.8 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 17.05 °C (62.7 °F). The annual precipitation is about 1,340 mm (53 in).

Administrative divisions

Shaoyang administers three districts, one county-level city, seven counties, and one autonomous county.

Districts:

• Shuangqing District (双清区)
• Daxiang District (大祥区)
• Beita District (北塔区)

County-level City:

• Wugang City (武冈市)

Counties:

• Shaodong County (邵东县)
• Shaoyang County (邵阳县)
• Xinshao County (新邵县)
• Longhui County (隆回县)
• Dongkou County (洞口县)
• Suining County (绥宁县)
• Xinning County (新宁县)

Autonomous county:

• Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (城步苗族自治县）

Map
1 2 3 Shaodong County Xinshao County Shaoyang County Longhui County Dongkou County Suining County Xinning County Chengbu County Wugang (city) 1. Shuangqing 2. Daxiang 3. Beita

Demographics

According to the Sixth National Census in 2010, Shaoyang's permanent residence population of 7,071,741 ranked it 2nd out of 14 prefecture-level divisions of Hunan; the male-female ratio was 107.95 to 100. Educational attainment levels were as follows: 4.49% bachelor's or higher, 60.01% middle school (初中) or higher, and the illiteracy rate was 3.24%. There were 1,950,605 households in which 6,913,913 resided, forming 97.77% of the provincial population and resulting in an average of 3.54 persons/household. Age distribution was as follows: 1,512,664 (21.39%) ≤14 years, 4,862,468 (68.76%) 15−64 years, 696,609 (9.85%) 65+ years.

Transportation

Railway

Shaoyang has four main railway station: Shaoyang Railway Station(邵阳火车站)(Fast Train,K and Highspeed Train, G), Shaoyang Railway Station(邵阳北老火车站)(Old, North, Freight), Shaodong Railway Station(邵东火车站)(Fast Train,K and Highspeed Train, G) and Shaoyang North Railway Station(邵阳北站), in Xinshao County(Highspeed Train,G and D). Loushao Railway(娄邵铁路) and Hukun Highspeed Railway(沪昆高铁) pass through Shaoyang.

Economy

Although it is, by 2010 Census permanent resident population, the second-largest prefecture-level division of Hunan, its GDP (4.62% of provincial output) places it ninth within the province, making it an archetypal example of a large-population, relatively backwards-economy city. The GDP per capita of 12,797 CNY is the lowest in the province, and is only 42.9% of the provincial average, 36.5% of the national average, and 78% of even Guizhou's corresponding figure.^[5] Primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors respectively accounted for 23.9%, 38.2%, and 37.9% of the economy.

Noted people

• Tsiang Tingfu, historian and diplomat
• Wei Yuan, late Qing scholar
• He Luting, composer
• Cai E, revolutionary leader
• Liao Yaoxiang, high-ranking Kuomintang general in World War II
• Li Wangyang, labour rights activist whose "suicide" was allegedly staged by the local police

Twin cities

• Saratov, Russia

References

External links

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• Shaoyang, China

Coordinates: 27°15′N 111°28′E / 27.250°N 111.467°E / 27.250; 111.467