Today’s Xiangyang is a glamorous modern city and excellent tourism destination. The line going like “Green rivers wind across the city circled by stretching mountains” highly summarizes the breathtaking natural beauty of Xiangyang, a city nourished by seven rivers and standing against two lush mountains. Yuliangzhou, a central shoal amid the rivers, together with four surrounding urban districts in four directions, jointly constitute a waterfront urban cityscape only observed in this gorgeous city. In addition to its god-endowed grandiose landscape, Xiangyang also has grown into a cultural center throughout history in the nation. It is no wonder that the city, shining as a dazzling pearl along Han River, has stood out in the hinterland of China in virtue of its peculiar charm.

Xiangyang is the provincial sub-central-city in Hubei Province. Located among a 300,000-square-kilometer-wide land comprised of neighboring Hubei Province, Henan Province and Shaanxi Province and Chongqing City, Xiangyang also lies at the heart of four grand urban clusters centered on Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Xi’an and Chongqing City. Three railways and four high-express roads converge in the city, which is also home to two airports connecting many domestic cities by multiple air flights, and the golden water channel featuring inland Han River. Thus, a highly convenient three-dimensional transport (railway, watercourse, expressway, and flight) network is well in place in Xiangyang, making it a significant domestic transport hub. Besides, as a significant national grain-production region and large-scale commodity grain base, Xiangyang boasts rich agricultural resources and inherent merits for the development of modern agriculture and agricultural products related processing industry. Once serving as an old national industrial base, key national auto manufacturing base, cluster for third-tier military enterprises and institutions, and acclaimed as “famed Chinese textile and fabric city”, Xiangyang has made the best of its rich industrial heritage to march into a modernized industrialization path to form a new and high-tech-driven industry pattern, with auto manufacturing sector as the leading sector, food, equipment manufacturing, textile, medicine and chemicals as pillar sectors, and new energy auto, aviation, new material, new medicine, electronic information as rising sectors. Besides, Xiangyang is also designated as one of the second batch of trial cities for the demonstration and publicity of energy-saving and new energy powered autos, national new industrialization (new energy powered auto) base and national military-civil industrial base.