Nanchang, abbreviated as "Hong" or "Chang", called Yuzhang and Hongdu in ancient times, is the capital city of Jiangxi Province. It is the political, economic, cultural, technological and traffic center of the province, the birthplace of new China's aviation industry, an important comprehensive transportation hub, the photoelectric industry base in China, and a world-class photovoltaic industry base. Nanchang is a historical city, landscape city, new industrial city and dynamic city with regional area of 7402 square kilometers, and total population of 6.25 million. The forest coverage rate is 65.1%, ranking second in the world.
Historical Famous City
With over 2200-years of history, Nanchang boasts abundant cultural inheritance and precious humanities imprints, having been featured by “abundant nature’s treasures and outstanding people” since ancient times. Nanchang possesses a lot of cultural relics such as Tengwang Pavilion, Xishan Wanshou Palace, Rope gold pagoda, Haihun Marquis tomb of the Han Dynasty and so on. Nanchang is also the cradle of the Chinese people's army and the thought of reform and opening-up.
Landscape City
Nanchang is a city surrounded by mountains and rivers. The downtown area relies on Meiling West Mountain in the west with Ganjiang River passing through it. The city greening coverage rate reaches 43% and the water area accounts for 29.78%. Embellished with two rivers and eight lakes, Nanchang is a veritable “Water Capital of China·Pearl of PoyangLake”.
New Industrial City
Nanchang mainly builds four major strategic emerging pillar industries (automobiles and new energy vehicles, electronic information, biomedicine, aviation equipment), four major characteristic advantageous traditional industries (green food, modern knitwear and textile, new materials, mechanical and electrical equipment manufacturing) and several producer service industries (industrial design, sci-tech consultation, inspection and detection, information service, financial service, mass entrepreneurship and innovation development, intelligent logistics).
Dynamic City
Nanchang is situated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, bordering Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. Nanchang has high-speed railways connecting many famous cities in China, taking 2.5 hours to fly to Beijing and 1.5 hours to fly to Shanghai or Guangzhou.