宜昌简介(中英文)讲解学习

宜人之城昌盛之地

宜昌位于长江中上游的结合部，全市国土面积2.1万平方公里，现有人口415万，有汉、回、土家、满等20个民族，以汉族人口居多。宜昌是湖北省域副中心城市、长江中上游区域性中心城市和世界水电旅游名城，是举世瞩目的三峡工程和葛洲坝水利枢纽工程所在地。

宜昌是一座名符其实的宜人之城。这里有2700多年悠久的文明史，是巴楚文化的摇篮、土家族的发祥地，是中华民族伟大母亲嫘祖、世界历史文化名人屈原、中国历史四大美女之一王昭君的故里。这里有纵横的江河、绵绵的青山、65.7%的森林覆盖率，有清新的空气、宜人的气候和优美的环境，有勤劳善良的各族人民在这里幸福生活。这里是鄂西生态文化旅游圈的核心城市、三峡国际旅游目的地城市，山河壮美，风景秀丽，自然景观和现代工程交相辉映，长江三峡和三峡工程享誉全球，每年吸引2000多万游客，其中包括50多万海外游客。宜昌也是一座开放包容的国际化城市，到目前为止，已与十多个国家的城市结为国际姐妹城市和友好合作关系城市，与100多个国家有经贸往来，已有100多位国家元首、政府首脑、议会议长和政党领袖访问宜昌。

宜昌是一方久负盛名的昌盛之地。这里是中国地理版图的几何中心，地理位置优越，交通条件便利，正在成为中国中部地区的区域性交通枢纽。这里有现代化的机场、港口和车站，从这里可以乘坐各种交通工具轻松便捷地抵达北京、上海、广州、西安等各大主要城市。宜昌也是世界最大的水电基地，水能资源丰富。在以宜昌城区为中心的40公里半径内，已经建成三峡大坝、葛洲坝等4座特大型水电站，全市水电装机容量达2900万千瓦，每年都有超过1300亿千瓦时的电能源源不断地输送到各地，被誉为“中国动力心脏”。这里投资环境优良，曾被评为“中国最适合开设工厂的城市”和“中国最佳投资城市”，产业基础厚实，发展前景广阔。这里有1个国家级

高新区和12个省级开发区。法国欧莱雅、日本三井物产等一批国内外知名企业已经落户宜昌，优良的投资环境让外来企业能在这里生根发展。这里是亚洲最大的酵母生产基地，中国著名的精细化工生产基地、钢琴生产基地、麻醉药品生产基地和优质白酒生产基地，也是优质柑桔和高品质茶叶主产区。宜昌目前正重点鼓励和支持电力、化工、食品医药、装备制造等四大支柱产业，生物、新能源、磁电子、纳米材料、环保科技新业产业和文化旅游、商贸物流等现代服务业的发展。2012年实现生产总值400多亿美元，综合实力位居中国中部地区同等城市第2名。

近年来，宜昌经济社会蓬勃发展、城市形象快速提升，先后获得全国文明城市、国家卫生城市、国家环保模范城市、国家森林城市、国家园林城市和中国优秀旅游城市等光荣称号。

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A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO YICHANG

—a comfortable city, a prosperous place Yichang is located at the joint of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It covers an area of 21,000 km², with a population of 4.15million, and more than 20 ethnic groups lives harmoniously here for many years, including Han, Hui, Tujia, and Manchu etc, among them Han is the biggest group. Yichang is the sub-center city of Hubei province, the regional center city in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the world famous Hydropower Tourist City. The world famous Three Gorges Project and the Gezhouba Water Control project are all located here.

Yichang is a comfortable and livable city just as its name literally means. It boasts of a long civilized history of more than 2700 years and it was regarded as the cradle of the ancient Bachu culture, and the birthplace of Tujia minority people. Yichang is the hometown of Madame Leitsu, the silk inventor as well as the wife of China’s ancestral Emperor Huangdi; Chuyuan, a famous patriotic poet and celebrity of world history and culture; Wang Zhaojun, one of the four most beauties in ancient China. Yichang has a terrain of undulating

mountains, countless hills as well as meandering rivers and streams. Therefore, its forest coverage rate exceeds 65.7%. With fresh air, agreeable climate, and beautiful environment, Yichang diligent and kindhearted people of all nationalities enjoy their happy lives here. Yichang is the core city of ecological cultural tourism circle of western Hubei and the international destination city of Yangtze River three gorges tour. The towering mountains, magnificent gorges, fascinating sceneries, splendid cultures and modern projects attracted more than 20 million tourists annually, including more than 500 thousand tourists from abroad. Yichang is an open and inclusive international city. Up to now, it has international sister cities and friendly cooperative cities in more than 10 countries, and its trade relationship extend to more than 100 countries as well. More than 100 foreign presidents, prime ministers, parliament speakers and Party leaders visited Yichang in the past thirty years.

Yichang is a well-known prosperous place. It is the geographical center from the perspective of China Map. With a superior geographical position and convenient transport infrastructures, it is becoming the regional transportation hub in central China. With modern airport, harbor, railway station and express ways, you can quickly and easily go to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi’an and other main major cities of China by various means. There are four gigantic hydropower stations here including the Three Gorges Project, and the Gezhouba Hydropower Station, with a total installation capacity of 29 million kw and the annual electricity output is more than 130 billion kwh. It is nicknamed as the Power Heart of all China. What’s more, Yichang has been selected as one of the most suitable cities for opening factories and one of the best cities for investors. With a state-level high-tech industrial park and 12 province-level development zones, Yichang has a solid industrial foundation and a broad prospect for development. A number of well-known domestic and foreign enterprises have been settled in Yichang including L’Oreal, and Mitsui and so on. They all grow very fast in such an excellent investing environment. Yichang is home to the biggest yeast base of Asia, the famous fine chemical production base, the piano base, anesthetics base and top-brand liquor base, it is also a production area of high-quality oranges and teas. Yichang is expanding and strengthening the four pillar industries of electric power, chemical industry, food and pharmaceuticals, and equipment manufacture. It is also seeking breakthroughs in fields of strategic