Zhuzhou
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Zhuzhou 株洲市 |
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| Prefecture-level city | |
Jianshe South Road (建设南路)
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 Zhuzhou
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| Coordinates: 27°51′N 113°08′E / 27.850°N 113.133°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Hunan |
| Government | |
| • mayor | Mao Tengfei |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 11,262 km2 (4,348 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 535 km2 (207 sq mi) |
| Population (2014 Statistical Communique) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 3,961,000 |
| • Density | 350/km2 (910/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,416,000 |
| • Metro | 1,055,373 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| GDP | 2014 |
| - Total | CNY 216.05 billion |
| - per capita |
CNY 54,544 (USD 8,787) |
| GDP growth rate |
 10.5% |
Zhuzhou (Chinese: 株洲; pinyin: Zhūzhōu), formerly Jianning, is a prefecture-level city of Hunan Province, China, a little to the southeast of Changsha and bordering Jiangxi to the east. It is part of the "ChangZhuTan Golden Triangle" (comprising the cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan). The city has jurisdiction over 5 counties (Yanling, Chaling, Youxian, Liling, Zhuzhou) and four districts (Hetang, Lusong, Shifeng and Tianyuan, a high-tech industrial development zone), and covers an area of 11,420 km2 (4,410 sq mi).
It had 3,855,609 inhabitants as of the 2010 census, of whom 1,055,373 lived in the built-up area (4 urban districts). With Xiangtan areas adjoining Zhuzhou due to be agglomerated in a few years' time, the joint built-up area will be home to 2,930,673 inhabitants. Zhuzhou is located in a subtropical monsoon climate zone and with its abundant mineral and organic resources has one of the highest agricultural yields in Hunan Province.
Zhuzhou administers four districts, one county-level city,and four counties.
Zhuzhou is a very important transportation junction in South China. The Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway and the Hunan-Guizhou Railway meet here, which makes Zhuzhou Railway Station, conveniently located in downtown Zhuzhou, one of the five special class passenger-and-goods transportation stations in China. On average, a train passes through every three minutes. Zhuzhou North Station is the largest goods transportation marshalling station in South China, with 110 trains and more than 30,000 passengers passing through every day.
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