Xiangtan
Xiangtan (Chinese: 湘潭) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, are in Xiangtan's administration, as well as the hometowns of Qing dynasty and republic era painter Qi Baishi, scholar-general Zeng Guofan, and tennis player Peng Shuai.
Xiangtan
湘潭市 Siangtan; Hsiangtan | |
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Jinyuan Square (2010 photo) | |
Xiangtan Location of the city centre in Hunan | |
| Coordinates (Xiangtan municipal government): 27°49′53″N 112°56′43″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hunan |
| Municipal seat | Yuetang District |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Zhang Yingchun (张迎春) |
| • Party Secretary | Cao Jiongfang (曹炯芳) |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 5,006 km2 (1,933 sq mi) |
| • Urban (2017) | 169.02 km2 (65.26 sq mi) |
| • Districts | 657.7 km2 (253.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 2,752,171 |
| • Density | 550/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
| • Urban (2017) | 817,600 |
| • Urban density | 4,800/km2 (13,000/sq mi) |
| • Districts | 915,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-HN-03 |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese | 湘潭 | ||||||||||
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Xiangtan forms a part of the Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region with Changsha as the core city along with Zhuzhou, also known as Changzhutan City Cluster, one of the core cities in Central China.
Xiangtan is one of the top 500 cities in the world by scientific research outputs, as tracked by the Nature Index. It is home to Xiangtan University, a new Double First Class university and two provincial key public universities of Hunan Institute of Engineering and Hunan University of Science and Technology.