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Yiyang City
Total area: 12,320 km2
Permanent population: 3.6919 million (2025)
Major industries: Food processing, light industry and textiles, home building materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials, new energy, and biomedicine
Major agricultural products: Grain, tea, aquatic products, and bamboo shoots
Major mines: Antimony, tungsten, vanadium, shale
Main railway stations: Yiyang Railway Station, and Yiyang South Railway Station
GDP: 238.146 billion CNY (2025)
Sum of exports: 5.112 billion CNY (2025)
Sum of imports: 3.2 billion CNY (2025)
Per capita disposable income: 34,503 CNY (2025)
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.
Data Sources: Hunan Provincial Bureau of Statistics, Official Website of Yiyang Municipal People’s Government, 12306
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
• Guarulhos, Brazil
• Salcedo, Dominican Republic (with Yuanjiang)
Updated in June 2026