Liuyang

See also: Liu Yang (disambiguation)
Liuyang
浏阳市
County-level city
Liuyang Panorama
Liuyang Panorama
Location of Liuyang City within Changsha
Location of Liuyang City within Changsha
Liuyang is located in Hunan
Liuyang
Liuyang
Location of downtown in Hunan
Coordinates (Liuyang government): 28°09′49″N 113°38′36″E / 28.1637°N 113.6433°E / 28.1637; 113.6433
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceHunan
Prefecture-level cityChangsha
SeatGuankou
Area
 • County-level city5,008 km2 (1,934 sq mi)
 • Urban
[1]
27.90 km2 (10.77 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • County-level city1,278,928
 • Estimate 
(2017)
1,515,000
 • Density260/km2 (660/sq mi)
 • Urban
[1]
260,000
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code0731
Websiteliuyang.gov.cn
Chrysanthemum Stone (celestine in limestone) from Liuyang

Liuyang (simplified Chinese: 浏阳; traditional Chinese: 瀏陽; pinyin: Liúyáng) is a county-level city, the most populous and the easternmost county-level division of Hunan Province, China; it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changsha, the provincial capital. Located on the northeastern margin of Hunan, the city is bordered to the north by Pingjiang County, to the west by Changsha County and Yuhua District, to the south by Shifeng, Hetang Districts of Zhuzhou and Liling City, to the southeast and the east by Yuanzhou District of Yichun, Shangli, Wanzai and Tonggu Counties of Jiangxi. Liuyang City covers 4,997.35 km2 (1,929.49 sq mi) with registered population of 1,453,246 and resident population of 1,297,700 (as of 2014).[2] The city has four subdistricts, 26 towns and two townships under its jurisdiction, its jurisdiction, its administrative centre is at Guankou Subdistrict (关口街道).[3][4]

Liuyang is home to the Hakka people with a population of more than 200,000, who immigrated here from Meizhou of Guangdong or Jiangxi in later Ming and early Qing dynasties.[5] It is one of the richest counties and county-level cities in tourism resources. As it was a revolutionary base area in the Chinese Communist Revolution, there are many red tourism attractions and former residences of famous figures.

Liuyang is one of the most developed counties and county-level cities, it is one of the best developed manufacturing counties and county-level cities in the province, the manufacturing industry is its economic pillar. Liuyang's manufacturing engines are electronic and information, biomedicine, machinery manufacture, fireworks and firecrackers, food and beverage, materials and energy, furniture and decoration. For example, the gross domestic product of Liuyang in 2015 was CN¥111.28 billion (US$17.87 billion). Of this total, the value added of the manufacturing industry was CN¥71.37 billion (US$11.46 billion), shares 64.14 percentage of its GDP.[6] Fireworks and firecrackers have being been its traditional industry.

Fireworks and firecrackers originated in Liuyang and it has always been the centre of fireworks production in China, spanning more than 1,400 years.[7] Fireworks sales by Liuyang account for about half of China's gross sales of CN¥ 29.41 billion (US$4.34 billion).[8][full citation needed][9] Liuyang is also home of the International Fireworks Association.

  1. ^ a b Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 68. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ^ 长沙统计年鉴2015 [Changsha Yearly Book 2015]. Changsha Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 2017-06-10. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
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  5. ^ 浏阳客家初探 [About Hakka people of Liuyang]. 29 October 2014. or (5-Feb-15: the world of Hakka people)
  6. ^ 浏阳市2015年国民经济和社会发展统计公报 [Liuyang's economy in 2015]. Changsha Bureau of Statistics. 2016-03-22.
  7. ^ 浏阳烟花的起源与发展. Chinabaike. 2016-06-19.
  8. ^ the gross sales of China's firework industry in 2010: according to 2016-2022年中国花炮产业竞争格局报告
  9. ^ 浏阳市2010年国民经济和社会发展统计公报 [gross sales of Liuyang's firework industry in 2010]. Changsha Bureau of Statistics. 2011-05-13.