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Asia/Shanghai |
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Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Zigui County is located in the west of China's Hubei Province, belonging to the city of Yichang, located in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River on the banks of the Xiling Gorge, is the hometown of Qu Yuan and the Three Gorges Reservoir District, an important county and city. With a total area of 2427 square kilometers and a population of about 400,000, it is mainly mountainous and hilly, with a subtropical monsoon climate and four distinct seasons.
Zigui is the hometown of the great poet Qu Yuan, and organizes the International Dragon Boat Festival and Qu Yuan Cultural Tourism Festival every year. It is also the hometown of Chinese navel oranges, producing zigui navel oranges, with agriculture and cultural tourism as the economic pillars. After the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, Zigui became a key area for resettlement of immigrants in the reservoir area, and the new county town was built along the river with modern facilities.
Well-known attractions include Qu Yuan Temple, Jiuwanxi River, Three Gorges Bamboo Sea, etc. Combined with the Three Gorges Tourist Route, it attracts a large number of tourists. Conveniently accessible via the Hurong Expressway, the Yangtze River waterway and Yichang Three Gorges Airport, it is an important node of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Located in the south of Anhui Province and on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Chizhou is an important node city of the Wanjiang City Belt, known as "the land of a thousand poets and the Lotus City of the Buddha's Kingdom". The city is rich in humanities, and the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once visited Qiu Pu three times, leaving behind famous lines such as "Qiu Pu is as long as autumn, and the depression makes people sad"; Xinghuacun Cultural Park recreates the poetic scene of "a shepherd boy pointing to the village of apricot blossoms in the distance". The natural scenery is exquisite, within the territory of Jiuhua Mountain is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, known at home and abroad as the "Dizang Road", scenic spots within the group of peaks competing in the show, ancient temples standing; Gouniujie National Geopark is known as "the last primitive forest in East China", Pingtian Lake National Wetland Park is showing "the city in the The Pingtian Lake National Wetland Park shows the ecological picture of "city in the lake, lake in the city". Chizhou has excellent ecology and is a national ecological civilization construction demonstration area. In recent years, relying on the integration of culture and tourism, ecological agriculture and other industries, Chizhou is becoming an important leisure and vacation destination in the Yangtze River Delta region.