Yichang belongs to Yichang City, Hubei Province. Yichang, formerly known as Yiling, is a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province. * * * governs five municipal districts, three county-level cities, three counties and two autonomous counties, with a total area of 2 1 1,000 square kilometers, a permanent population of 4 1 3,790,000 and a registered population of 3,909,400. Yichang is located in the middle of China, at the junction of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the southwest of Hubei Province, and is known as the "gateway to the Three Gorges" and "the throat of Sichuan and Hubei". Yichang was called "Yiling" in ancient times, named after "water is here, mountains are here". In the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Yichang, meaning "suitable for prosperity". Yichang is the hometown of Qu Yuan, a world historical and cultural celebrity, and Wang Zhaojun, an ancient messenger of national unity. Yichang is the location of the Three Gorges Project and Gezhouba Water Control Project, and is known as the "hydropower capital of the world". Yichang has a long history, and there are "Changyang people" activities in the Qingjiang River Basin of Yichang. The discovery of dozens of Neolithic sites in China proves that the ancestors of the Chinese nation thrived on this land seven or eight thousand years ago.