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Changsha City
Total area: 11,819 km2
Permanent population: 10.5131 million (2023)
Major industrial products: Cranes, automobiles, and tobacco
Major agricultural products: Grain, tea, fruit, and livestock (pork, beef, and lamb)
Major mines: Iron, manganese, vanadium, copper, and lead
Total length of railways: 251 km
Total length of roads: 5,857 km
GDP: 1,433.198 billion CNY (2023)
Sum of exports: 189.681 billion CNY (2023)
Sum of imports: 91.47 billion CNY (2023)
Actual use of foreign investment: 877 million USD (2023)
Per capita disposable income of urban residents: 67,276 CNY (2023)
Changsha City, Hunan's capital, is the political, economic, cultural, transportation, science and technology, financial, and information center of the province. It is an important city located in the Yangtze River middle reaches. It is a pilot area of the national "Resource-saving and Environment-friendly Society" construction. It is a nationally important grain center. It is a node city of the city cluster along the Yangtze River middle reaches, and the Yangtze Economic Belt. It is a hub for the Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, and Chongqing-Xiamen High-speed Railway.
International friendship cities:
• Brazzaville City, Congo
• Kagoshima City, Japan
• St. Paul City, U.S.A.
• Chua Chu Kang, Singapore
• Fribourg City, Switzerland
• Jersey City, U.S.A.
• Gumi, South Korea
• Mons City, Belgium
• City of New Haven, U.S.A.
• Mogilev, Belarus
• Entebbe, Uganda
• Auburn, Australia
• Annapolis, America
• Montargis, France (with Changsha County)
Sources: en.changsha.gov.cn; Changsha Municipal Statistics Bureau
Updated in May 2024