My hometown-E'zhou
Located in the eastern part of Hubei province, and to the west adjacent to Wuhan, the capital of the province. Ezhou city was approved to set up a municipal government directly under the provincial government it Aug.1983, and at present governs three county-level districts namely Echeng, Huarong and Liangzihu districts. It has a territory of 1504 sq kms, and a population of more than one million.
Ezhou is a city with a long history and splendid culture. Before Donghan Dynasty, it was named E Yi,E jun , and E Country, at the time of Three Kingdoms, king Sun Quan of Wu kingdom made this place as the capital and it was named as Wu Chang. From then on, either as the capital of Jun or of a zhou, Ezhou has been always remaining as an important city in terms of politics, economy and military on the middle reaches of Yangtze river. It�s well known domestically as the Hometown of Ancient Bronze Mirror and the original place of Sukhavati sect of Buddhism.
Ezhou is a beautiful city. The Mountain, water and the city itself blend into one harmonious whole of a radiant. The West Hill, located at the heart of the city, is a provincial-level scenic spot of hubei; Chinese Tourism Bade in Lotus Hill is Very famous at home and abroad; Liangzi lake, Yanglang lake and Honglian lake are attractive places for tourism and for spending holidays as well.
Ezhou is city with complete infrastructures. With the Yangtze river running 88 kms across the territory; Ezhou has six ports, including Echeng port where ten-thousand-ton vessels can take up berths; WU Fu railway runs across the territory; JingGuang JingJou railway joins in the City urban, Jingzhu highway and Hurong highway run across the territory, and No.106 National way stretches from the south to the north; Tianhe Airport has a distance of only 70kms to the heart of the city. The power and water supply conditions are very good.
Ezhou is a new industrial city on the southern bank of the middle Yangtze River. It provides the important support to the middle section of Metallurgy Corridor, Construction Materials Corridor and Garments Corridor of eastern Hubei province. Complete industrial system has been formed with metallurgy, construction materials, garments, machinery, light industry and textiles, chemicals as the mainstay. It becomes an important industrial base of Hubei province and commodity distributing and circulating center.
Ezhou is an important window opening to the outside world in Hubei province. It's one of the national opening cities and opening ports, and it's the only one of experiment zone for reforming and opening in Hubei province. There are 9 functional zones of industry, agriculture and tourism such as Hubei Gedian Development zone. Over 300 foreign invested enterprises have fallen on the fertilizered land and the economic, technological and cultural relationships with nearly 30 countries and regions have been established. It has been established the friendship city with Marita city of USA, Santiao city of Japan, Whyalla city of Australia and Albengulo of Ketadiva consecutively.
Ezhou, with an outstanding past, is now taking strong and stable steps toward a brilliant tomorrow. Following the strategy of opening to the outside world, the people of Ezhou city are wasting no efforts to build Ezhou into a prosperous and civilized new city. It can be expected that, Ezhou, this brilliant pearl on the bank of Yangtze River, will brim over with more vigor and shine.
All around now, Ezhou is full of hope and stands before the whole world; We wholeheartedly welcome our friends form all over the world to invest here for sightseeing and tours.