Xiangtan City, nicknamed "Liancheng" because it is rich in Xianglian, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province in China, located in the lower reaches of Xiangjiang River in central and eastern Hunan. At present, it governs Yuetang and Yuhu municipal districts, Xiangtan 1 county, Xiangxiang and Shaoshan county-level cities, with a total area of 50 15 square kilometers. It is the smallest prefecture-level city in Hunan with a total population of 2.92 million, ranking 12 among the four cities and states in Hunan. Celebrity gathering is an important humanistic feature of Xiangtan, which is the hometown of celebrities such as Qi Baishi, Peng and Jiu, and contains unique cultural traditions because Xiangtan is the birthplace of Huxiang School and Xiang Army.

Xiangtan in a narrow sense refers to "Xiangtan City" established on the basis of Xiangtan County after the Southern Song Dynasty. It was once the commercial center of "China Inland Commercial Port Giant" and flourished for a while. Now it includes Yuetang and Yuhu District, with a total area of 279 square kilometers, including 76 square kilometers in the built-up area; With a total population of 720,000, including 570,000 non-agricultural people, it is the fifth largest city in Hunan Province. Among the top 100 cities in China announced by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2006, the comprehensive strength of the city ranked 83rd and ranked 3rd in Hunan Province. As an integral part of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration, it was approved in 2007 as an experimental zone for the comprehensive reform of building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society in China.