Yueyang

Administration

The Yueyang prefecture is made up of six outlying districts, two special districts and the city proper. The six city districts are Huarong, Linxiang, Xiangyin, Pingjiang, Miluo and Yueyang County. The two special (smaller) districts are Junshan and Yunxi, which used to be part of Yueyang city proper but were separated into their own special districts for administrative purposes.

Districts:

• Yueyanglou District (岳阳楼区)
• Junshan District (君山区)
• Yunxi District (云溪区) County-level City:
• Miluo City (汨罗市)
• Linxiang City (临湘市) Counties:
• Yueyang County (岳阳县)
• Huarong County (华容县)
• Xiangyin County (湘阴县)
• Pingjiang County (平江县)

Climate

|Jan record high C = 25.9 |Jan record low C = -5.1 |Feb record high C = 28.0 |Feb record low C = -5.4 |Mar record high C = 33.0 |Mar record low C = -1.3 |Apr record high C = 33.4 |Apr record low C = 2.3 |May record high C = 35.7 |May record low C = 10.3 |Jun record high C = 36.6 |Jun record low C = 14.3 |Jul record high C = 39.2 |Jul record low C = 19.8 |Aug record high C = 37.6 |Aug record low C = 16.7 |Sep record high C = 37.2 |Sep record low C = 11.1 |Oct record high C = 34.1 |Oct record low C = 5.6 |Nov record high C = 29.5 |Nov record low C = -1.5 |Dec record high C = 23.1 |Dec record low C = -5.9

History

The area now called Yueyang has been inhabited for over 3,000 years. It was originally established as a prefecture called Hanchang (Hanchang) by Sun Wu in 210 AD during the Three Kingdoms period. It was called Ximi during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period under the Chu state.

Under the Song dynasty (AD 960 – AD 1279) it was heavily fortified, with walls 4 mi in circumference, and became the seat of the military prefecture of Yueyang, whence its present name. During the Taiping Rebellion, its capture by the rebels in 1852 was an important stage in their advance up the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing. At the time of the foundation of the Republic of China in 1911, it became a county, taking the name Yueyang.

Yueyang Tower

Yueyang Tower is an ancient Chinese tower in Yueyang, Hunan Province, on the shore of Lake Dongting. Alongside the Pavilion of Prince Teng and Yellow Crane Tower, it is one of the Three Great Towers of Jiangnan, and attracts many tourists. It is a famous place for tourism.

Government

Main article: Politics of Yueyang

The current CPC Party Secretary of Yueyang is Xie Weijiang and the current mayor is Li Zhi.

Transportation

Yueyang has two Yangtze River crossings, the Jingyue Yangtze River Bridge and Dongting Lake Bridge.

The city is served by Yueyang Sanhe Airport.

Education

There are a total of six colleges and polytechnic schools and several medical schools, the largest of which is Hunan Institute of Science and Technology.

Other colleges include:

• Hunan Polytechnic
• Radio and TV University Yueyang
• Yueyang University
• National Institute of Occupational Hunan
• Hunan petrochemical Vocational and Technical College
• Yueyang Vocational and Technical College

Schools:

• The No.1 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (key provincial)
• The No. 2 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 3 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 4 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The High School of Yueyang City
• The No. 6 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 7 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (Music School of the City of Yueyang)
• The No. 8 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 9 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 10 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 11 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (secondary school Yueyang Financial, in 1990 Technical School)
• The No. 12 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 13 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
• The No. 14 Middle School of the City of Yueyang（Changlian Middle School）
• The Yuehua Middle School (key provincial)
• Middle School of the City of Miluo (key provincial)
• The No.19 Middle School of the City of Yueyang The No.1 Middle School of Huarong (key provincial)

Secondary Vocational Schools

• Yueyang City Ahafo language
• Zhongshan Yueyang City School Finance
• Pok Man Foreign Languages School
• Huarong County Vocational Schools
• Yueyang County Vocational Schools
• Great Wall vocational schools

Primary Schools

• Yueyang Tower Primary
• Nanhu Primary
• Dongfanghong Primary
• Chaoyang Primary
• Fengshu Primary
• Qi Jia Primary

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Yueyang is twinned with:

• JPN Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (1985)
• US Titusville, Florida, United States (1988)
• CAN Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada (1992)
• BUL Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (1994.12.04)
• AUS City of Cockburn, Western Australia, Australia (1998)

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