Yichang, known as Yiling in ancient times for the surrounding of water and hills, got its present name in Qing Dynasty, meaning pleasant and prosperous land. The city, which governs 5 counties, 3 cities and 5 districts, has an area of 21,000 square kilometers and total population of 4,150,000.
Yichang, a Famous Landscape City
Yichang, home of the Three Gorges Project, is a world famous hydropower tourism city and the regional center of the Yangtze River reaches, which attracts worldwide attention. It enjoys a wide range of preferential policies and support form the provincial government for its development. With its wonderful natural ecology and beautiful environment, Yichang has won many national titles for its environment, tourism, and landscape and sanitation. There is no doubt that Yichang is a pleasant and prosperous city for living, working and traveling.
Yichang is an ideal tourist destination for people around the world for its rich tourism resources including the bewitching natural scenery and the modern projects, the Ba and Chu cultures, the Tujia customs as well as the world-famous Three Gorges and Three Gorges Project. In Yichang, there are two 5A rating scenic spots, ten 4A rating ones. Yichang has become the central city connecting Zhangjiajie, Shennongjia, Mount Wudang and the Three Kingdoms Culture tourism area. It has become the core city of eco-culture tourism circle in the western Hubei and the destination of Three Gorges international tour.
Yichang, an Ideal City for Investment and Prosperity
Superior Traffic Location
Yichang, adjacent with Sichuan, Chongqing, and Jingzhou respectively, has very good transportation systems, and it has become an integrated regional transport hub with 3 railways traversing the city, highways extending in all directions. Besides, the Three Gorges Hub Port is one of the eight good ports on the Yangtze River, where ten thousand ton ships can directly reach Chongqing and Shanghai.Meanwhile, Yichang Three Gorges Airport has more than 30 domestic routes and direct tourist charter flight to Hong Kong.
Rich Hydroelectric Power Resouces
There are more than 400 big, medium and small hydropower stations in Yichang including the Three Gorges Project and the Gezhouba, and the installed capacity has reached 29,000,000KW. Yichang, with its rich water resources is praised as the Capital of World’s Hydroelectricity and the Heart of China’s Dynamic.
Rich Mineral Resources
There are 57 kinds of demonstrated reserves minerals with big exploitation values, 1.3 billion ton phosphate demonstrated reserves with 30% tenor of ore, 1 billion ton demonstrated reserves of iron ore in Yichang. The graphite reserves ranks the third in the country. Besides, Yichang is one of the biggest phosphate deep processing bases.
Efficient Administrative Services
With its effiecient administrative services and excellent investment circumstances, Yichang has become the home of many world top 500 companies and well-known domestic enterprises including L’Oreal, Mitsui, China Resources, China South Glass. Yichang has won many national titles including China’s Most Suitable City for Factories, and China’s Best Investment City and others.
Yichang, a City to Realize Dreams
Solid Industrial Foundation in Yichang
At present, Yichang has formed four pillar industries, such as electric power, chemical industry, equipment manufacturing, and food and medicine; meanwhile, other new industries including new materials, new energy resources, electronic information, and service outsourcing are growing. the city’s industrial competitiveness and influence gradually increases accordingly. Furthermore, there are abundant human resources. There are more than 20 national and provincial scientific research institutions, 24 institutions of higher learning and secondary technical training, 270,000 professional technical talents. Every year there will be another 30,000 skilled works. All these can fully meet the various needs for talents and industrial workers.
Excellent Investment Environment
The city has a national high-tech zone, 12 provincial development zones, where each park has convenient transportation with perfect function and best service. It has built Hubei-Shenzhen Industrial Park, Bioindustrial Park and other six parks in the Yichang national High-tech industrial development zone where areas that can be developed are over 100 square kilometers.
Great Development Potential
Now Yichang has entered the period of economic acceleration and urban expansion. In the next five years, it will plan a great leap forward for the economic promotion to make the annual sales income of equipment manufacturing, chemical industry, biomedical and food processing to exceed 100,000,000,000RMB, to achieve the breakthrough in other new strategic industries including the new energy resources, new materials, electronic information, and environmental protection.
Yichang, a City with Booming Economy
Yichang is the sub-central city and regional central city of the Yangtze River reaches. It is supported presciently by the provincial government. Under the correct leadership of the central and provincial government, the city thoroughly implements the scientific outlook on development, makes innovations in the mode of development, changes the way of development, and improves the quality of development.Therefore, the comprehensive strength and competitiveness of Yichang are enhanced. The city’s GDP exceeded 50 billion RMB in 2004, and 100 billion in 2008, 200 billion in 2011, which increased three times in seven years. The industrial output value and the local public finance budget revenue quadrupled in five years. In 2011, the city’s GDP was 214.1 billion RMB, an increase of 16.1% over the past year; the fixed asset investment was 119.1 billion RMB, an increase of 33.1%; the certain scaled industries (industries whose annual state-owned and main business income is above 5 million RMB) added value of 110 billion RMB, increased by 26.6%; the local public finance budget revenue was 11.4 billion RMB, increased by 37.1%, its comprehensive strength ranked the second in Hubei Province, the fourth among the 19 prefecture cities along the Yangtze River, and the third among the 77 prefecture cities in the central regions.
Yichang, with embracing arms, welcomes people all around the world to visit and invest in this prosperous land. Yichang, with its beautiful scenery and excellent investment environment, will live up to all your expectations!