Shiyan City is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, in the middle and upper reaches of the Han River, in the middle and low mountainous area at the northern foot of Wudang Mountain, and on the south bank of the Han River. It has a subtropical monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 15.2℃ and an average annual rainfall of 828 mm, spanning from east longitude 109 29' to north latitude1116' to north latitude 31. It is the only regional central city in the adjacent areas of Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi and Chongqing. Located at the junction of central China, southwest China and northwest China, and at the junction of five provinces, it plays the role of connecting the east with the west and connecting the north and the south, and is the distribution center of people flow, logistics, education, health and culture in the surrounding areas of northwest Hubei. It has jurisdiction over five counties, one city, two districts and one economic and technological development zone in Fangxian, Yunxian, Yunxi, Zhushan, Zhuxi, zhangwan district, Maojian, danjiangkou city and Bailang. Shiyan is an important automobile production and scientific research base in China, and a new industrial city mainly focusing on automobile industry. In 2006, the city's GDP reached 34.5 billion yuan, and the per capita income exceeded 1 10,000 yuan, ranking among the top 100 cities in China for three consecutive years, and the quality of life of residents ranked 63rd in the country. Urban per capita income ranks second in the province, second only to Wuhan.

The city has a total land area of 23,600 square kilometers, a total population of 35 1 10,000 and an urban population of 520,000.

Shiyan has a long history and is an important birthplace of the Chinese nation. 199 1 year, archaeologists excavated two complete skull fossils of Australopithecus australis at Quyuan River in Yunxian County, and named them "Yunxian people". Anthropologists believe that this discovery filled a gap in the "chain" of human development in Asia and was listed as the first of the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in the World" that year. Shiyan city belongs to a strange and mediocre country in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. During the Warring States period, it belonged to Chu State; During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it belonged to Changli County, Hanzhong County; During the Eastern Han and Wei Dynasties, it belonged to Xi County; During the Tang and Song Dynasties, it belonged to Yunxiang County, Wudang County; Yun County was established in Yuan Dynasty. Today's urban area was named Shiyan in the Qing Dynasty, because people built dams on the Baier River and irrigated 10 rivers. 1967 The state established Yunyang Shiyan Office for the construction of the Second Automobile Factory (now Dongfeng Motor Company), and Shiyan City was approved by the State Council in 1969+02, and was upgraded to a provincial city in 1973. 1994 10, the original Shiyan City and Yunyang District merged to form a new Shiyan City. Shiyan is the birthplace of Taoism and wudang boxing. Wudang Taoism has a history of thousands of years, and the ancient buildings of Wudang Mountain have been listed in the World Cultural Heritage List by the United Nations. In 2007, Shiyan ranked third in the China City Brand Value Report as a livable city. Shiyan is also a famous tourist city in China.