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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.
Ningnan County is located in Sichuan Province, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast, the south bank of the Jinsha River, is located in Sichuan, Yunnan Province junction, covers an area of 1,667 square kilometers, jurisdiction over 13 towns and 5 townships, with a population of about 200,000 people, is a typical mountainous agricultural county. Here is a subtropical monsoon climate, abundant light and heat resources, the Jinsha River hot and dry river valley area gave birth to the "China's sericulture township" reputation, sericulture, sugar cane, baking tobacco for the traditional pillar industries, modern agriculture and ecological industry integration and development. With the Jinsha River rushing through its territory, Ningnan has rich hydropower resources, and major national projects such as Baihetan Hydropower Station are located here. At the same time, Ningnan Yi culture is profound, torch festival, Yi year and other national festivals are unique, natural landscape and humanistic flavor, is a rising ecological pearl in southwest Sichuan.