Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the south-central part of Hubei Province, Jingzhou is situated in the hinterland of the beautiful and rich Jianghan Plain. It is known as the "land of culture and fish and rice". It is a riverside city with ancient culture and modern civilization. The whole city covers an area of 14.1 million square kilometers, with a total population of 6.6 million. It has jurisdiction over Jingzhou District, Shacheng District, Jiangling County, Songzi City, Public Security County, Shishou City, Jianli County, Honghu City, 8 counties and cities, Jingzhou Development Zone, Jinan Wenlu District and Jingzhou High-tech Zone. There are 13 sub-district offices, 102 townships and 2619 village committees in the city. It has been designated as a national historical and cultural city, an excellent tourist city in China, a national garden city, a national health city, a national model city with double support, the second batch of pilot cities for urban design and the second batch of "Sino-German ecological demonstration cities". It is a national production base for high-quality agricultural and sideline products and a refined industrial base, a national demonstration zone for undertaking industrial transfer, and a national old industrial base. The renovation planning area, the national large site protection demonstration area, the national important highway transportation hub and the important port cities of the Yangtze River. Jingzhou has long been famous for its three beautiful business cards:
The first card is "The Old Capital of the State of Chu and the Famous City of the Three Kingdoms". "Yuzhuang Jiuzhou, Jingzhou began to exist." During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, King Chu of the 20th Dynasty established his capital in 411 years, creating Chu culture comparable to that of ancient Greece and Athens. Since then, 14 emperors have settled down here, and more than 130 prime ministers have emerged. They are truly "the capital of emperors" and "the city of prime ministers". Guangong Town has been in Jingzhou for ten years. Its spirit of loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and courage has been popular for thousands of years, and it has become a "martial sage" and "god of wealth" worshipped by Chinese people. The ancient city wall of Jingzhou, which was built in the period of the Three Kingdoms, is known as "the rare perfection of southern China". Jingzhou's profound history and culture have accumulated precious spiritual wealth, created the enterprising spirit of arduous entrepreneurship, the open spirit of Hainabaichuan, especially the great wisdom and courage embodied in the flood fighting in 1998, and the great righteousness and love embodied in the disposal of the sinking of the Oriental Star passenger liner, which have left a deep impression on the world.
The second card is "Land of Fish and Rice, Granary of China". Jingzhou is an important comprehensive production base of agricultural products. The annual grain output accounts for about 1% of the country's total. Freshwater products and rapeseed production rank first among cities and states in China for many years. It is known as "the first city of freshwater fisheries in China". The city has formed seven major processing industry systems, including high-quality grain, cotton, oil, melon, fruit and vegetable, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, forestry and paper. It has a number of leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, such as Fuwa, Honghulang and Baiyunbian. Agricultural product processing industry is the largest industry in Jingzhou and the first industry of 100 billion yuan. Jingzhou High-tech Zone is the third National High-tech Zone in China and the first national high-tech zone with agriculture as its characteristic in Hubei Province. It has been approved by the National Agricultural Science and Technology Park, the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation and Integrated Demonstration Base, the National Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Zone and the Jianghan Plain Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Zone successively, which bears the unlimited hope of agricultural sunrise There are many Lake Wetlands in Jingzhou, and the wetland area accounts for half of the city's territory. There are also a number of national protected areas such as Qushui Ecological Wetland Reserve and Shishou Milu Nature Reserve.
The third card: "Binjiang Town, Vigorous New Town". Jingzhou was born for the Yangtze River, beautiful for the Yangtze River and prosperous for the Yangtze River. 483 kilometers of golden waterway runs through the whole territory of Jingzhou. The framework of 200 square kilometers and 2 million people in the central urban area is being opened. Eleven industrial clusters are listed as key growth-oriented industrial clusters in the province. The output value of six pillar industries, namely, food industry, textile and garment industry, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, light industrial building materials, equipment manufacturing and electronic information, has achieved double-digit growth. The reform of the management system of "one city, three districts, one district and many gardens" has been steadily promoted, and the industrial layout has become more scientific. Jingzhou Development Zone, with automobile as the leading industry, is a state-level economic and Technological Development zone. It has gathered nearly 200 affiliated enterprises including Henglong, Farreo and Gaotian Auto Parts. It has formed a relatively complete chain of automobile industry and has a good foundation for the development of automobile industry.
Jingzhou has a good environment for development. Railway and highway networks are dense. Yanka Port is the third largest comprehensive open port in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Jingzhou Civil Airport is scheduled to open in 2019. Along with the comprehensive construction of the Mongolian railway and the Jingjiang reach, the Jingzhou is speeding up the formation of a comprehensive transport hub. It will become an important logistics corridor for the Yangtze River economic belt and the "one belt along the way". At present, Jingzhou is promoting the protection of the Yangtze River in depth, with remarkable results in ecological restoration, wetland protection and restoration, and continuous improvement of the ecological environment. Jingzhou has abundant labor resources and is the second largest talent-intensive area in Hubei Province. It has more than 300 scientific research institutes, 9 colleges and universities, and 50 academician and expert workstations. Jingzhou government service is efficient. It has taken the lead in introducing "33 certificates in one" and "double random and one open" to cover the whole province. It has successfully established a national model tax and land tax cooperation zone.
After laying the foundation and increasing the stamina of previous municipal committees and governments, the rank and share of Jingzhou's main economic indicators in the province have been comprehensively improved. In 2017, the GDP of the region reached 192.22 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5%, the total investment in fixed assets reached 223.23 billion yuan, an increase of 11.5%, the added value of industries above scale increased by 8.2%, the total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 116.86 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6%, the local general public budget income reached 12.25 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7%, and the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents increased by 8.2%.