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Yiyang City
Total area: 12,320 km2
Permanent population: 3.7592 million (2023)
Major industrial products: Machinery manufacturing, foodstuff, electric power, and chemistry
Major agricultural products: Grain, rapeseed, ramie fiber, and tea
Major mines: Antimony, tungsten, vanadium, and shale
Total length of railways: 142.05 km
Total length of expressways: 524 km (2023)
GDP: 213.621 billion CNY (2023)
Sum of exports: 6.278 billion CNY (2023)
Sum of imports: 1.133 billion CNY (2023)
Actual use of foriegn investment: 16.76 million USD (2023)
Per capita disposable income: 31,048 CNY (2023)
Forest coverage: 54% (2022)
Yiyang City is known as a famous "hometown of rice and fish" in the Dongting Lake area. It is a major producer of grains, cotton, oil-bearing crops, pigs and other industrial crops. Its ramie accounts for one fourth of the world's production. It is also one of the ten major bamboo-growing areas in China.
Its specialty products, including ramie clothes, hot foodstuffs, cooking oil, bamboo sleeping mats, preserved duck eggs and antimony products, sell well on both domestic and international markets.
The local business environment is being optimized. Improved infrastructure facilities, such as those involving energy, transport and telecommunications, provide better conditions for economic and social development.
International friendship cities:
• Namhae County, South Korea
• Petah Tikva, Israel
• Petah Tikva, Israel
Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn; Office of Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee; Yiyang Municipal Statistics Bureau
Updated in April 2024