Yicheng is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, in the middle reaches of Hanjiang River. Suizhou and Zaoyang in the east, Zhongxiang and Jingmen in the south, Nanzhang in the west and Xiangyang in the north. It is located at11157'-12 45' east longitude and 3126'-3154' north latitude. It is 76 kilometers long from east to west and 53 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 2 1 15 square kilometers.

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Yicheng is located in the northwest of Hubei and the middle reaches of the Han River, with a layout area of 2 1 15 square kilometers, showing the pattern of "three mountains, one water and six fields". It now administers 1 1 town (office), 1 provincial economic development zone, 1 Xiangyang fine chemical industrial park, 224 villages (communities), with a population of 560,000 and cultivated land1305 million mu. The central city is close to the west side of the Han River and surrounded by Carp Lake. The built-up area is 25 square kilometers and the population is 220,000.

Yicheng, with a long history and outstanding people, is a "thousand-year-old county", which was established in the third year of Emperor Huidi of Han Dynasty (BC 192) and has a history of more than 2,000 years. It is the capital of Chu in its heyday, the hometown of Song Yu, the originator of Ci and Fu literature, and the martyr of General Zhang Zizhong, an anti-Japanese hero.

Yicheng has a unique geographical location and developed transportation, and has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. At present, the traffic pattern of "six verticals and four horizontals" has been formed in China. It takes five minutes to enter the national expressway network and 50 minutes to reach the national railway network and aviation network. The cross-border layout of Hunan high-speed rail is about to enter the high-speed rail era.

Yicheng's reform is vigorous, undertaking 152 reform tasks, including 4 national-level reforms (national comprehensive pilot of new urbanization, national pilot of rural land system reform, national pilot of rural collective property right system reform, and national pilot of rural three-industry integration development).

Known as the "Little Fat County" of agriculture, it is the main functional area of agricultural products production in China, the advanced county and city of grain production in China, and the big county where pigs are transferred out; It is the old third-line industrial base in China. Now it has formed four industrial clusters: deep processing of agricultural products, fine chemicals, consumer electronics and intelligent manufacturing. There are 170 industrial enterprises, and more than 20 listed companies such as Tsinghua Tongfang, Conch Group and Tian Hui Rubber Industry have been introduced.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Yicheng

References:

Yicheng Municipal People's Government-Historical Evolution