Zhuzhou (Chinese: 株洲; Chinese: 株洲; pinyin: Zhū zhoū, joo-joh; ),^[3] formerly Jianning (建宁), is a prefecture-level city of Hunan Province, China, straddling the Xiang River southeast of the provincial capital, Changsha, and bordering Jiangxi province to the east. It is part of the "Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region, also known as Changzhutan Golden Triangle" (comprising the cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan). The city has jurisdiction over five counties (Yanling, Chaling, Youxian, Liling, Zhuzhou) and four districts (Hetang, Lusong, Shifeng and Tianyuan, a high-tech industrial development zone), and covers an area of 11,420 km² (4,410 sq mi).^[4]

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Zhuzhou 株洲市 Chuchow
Prefecture-level city
Shennong Park in March 2019
Location of Zhuzhou City jurisdiction in Hunan
Zhuzhou Location of the city centre in Hunan
Coordinates (Zhuzhou municipal government): 27°49′44″N 113°07′59″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
Municipal seat	Tianyuan District
Government
• mayor	Mao Tengfei
Area
• Prefecture-level city	11,262 km2 (4,348 sq mi)
• Urban  (2017)[1]	862.69 km2 (333.09 sq mi)
Population  (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	3,855,609
• Density	340/km2 (890/sq mi)
• Urban  (2017)[1]	1,145,100
GDP[2]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 361.7 billion US$ 53.6 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 93,431 US$ 13,893
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-HN-02

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As of the 2022 census^[update], Zhuzhou had 3,871,100 inhabitants,^[5] of whom 1,055,373 lived in the built-up area (4 urban districts). With Xiangtan areas adjoining Zhuzhou due to be agglomerated in a few years' time, the joint built-up area will be home to 2,933,069 inhabitants. Zhuzhou is located in a subtropical monsoon climate zone and with its abundant mineral and organic resources has one of the highest agricultural yields in Hunan province. Zhuzhou is home to a provincial public university of Hunan University of Technology.^[6]

Zhuzhou has a humid subtropical climate with long, hot summers, and cool to cold, cloudy, damp winters with occasional snow flurries. Within its administrative area, the annual mean temperature is 17.7 °C (63.9 °F), with the coolest month being January, which averages 5.3 °C (41.5 °F), and the hottest July, at 29.5 °C (85.1 °F).^[7]

Zhuzhou city administers five districts, one county-level city and three counties.^[10]

• Tianyuan District (天元区)
• Hetang District (荷塘区)
• Lusong District (芦淞区)
• Shifeng District (石峰区)
• Lukou District (渌口区)
• Liling City (醴陵市)
• You County (攸县)
• Chaling County (茶陵县)
• Yanling County (炎陵县)

Zhuzhou has also establish following administrative areas:

• CNHTIDZ Zhuzhou High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (Governed with Tianyuan District under "One institution with two names")^[11]

The government of Zhuzhou has a structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China.

The mayor of Zhuzhou is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Zhuzhou or Zhuzhou Municipal Government. However, in the city's dual party-government governing system, the mayor has less power than the Communist Party of Zhuzhou Municipal Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "CPC Party Chief of Zhuzhou" or "Communist Party Secretary of Zhuzhou".

Wu Zhankui served 16 years as the 3rd, 5th and 10th mayor of Zhuzhou from 1953 to 1955, 1956 to 1968, and 1980 to 1983. He is the longest term mayor of Zhuzhou.^[12]

Zhuzhou is a very important transportation junction in South China. The Beijing–Guangzhou railway and the Shanghai–Kunming railway meet here, which makes Zhuzhou railway station, conveniently located in downtown Zhuzhou, one of the five special class passenger-and-goods transportation stations in China. On average, a train passes through every three minutes. Zhuzhou North Station is the largest goods transportation marshalling station in South China, with 110 trains and more than 30,000 passengers passing through every day.

The Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway serves the city as well. As almost everywhere along this line, the high-speed railway is routed away from the city core. High-speed trains to Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, Xi'an and points in between stop at Zhuzhou West railway station, which is located about 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) to the west of downtown Zhuzhou.

As well through its comprehensive railway system, Zhuzhou is connected to the rest of the country by 106 National Highway, 320 National Highway, 211 Provincial Highway, the Beijing–Zhuhai expressway, the Shanghai–Ruili expressway, and three highways linking south Fujian, south Jiangxi and south Hunan Province.

Zhuzhou is 37 kilometres (23 miles) away from Changsha Huanghua International Airport. It takes about 30 minutes to drive to the airport by the Changsha–Zhuzhou Highway.^[15]

The Xiang River (Xiangjiang) flows through Zhuzhou, which makes it one of the eight river ports of Hunan Province.

Phase 1 of the world's first Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) system, opened in 2018 and was later extended. The system uses 300 passenger rubber tyred vehicles capable of both following markings on the roadway and being steered by a driver. It is commonly called either a "guided bus" and a "trackless tram". The system was developed by the CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute.

Zhuzhou ART line
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Xiangyang Plaza Xinmiao Road Ziangyun Road Hongqi Plaza Huanan Road Yucai Road Zhushou Railway Station - East Square Tiedong Road Zhushou Railway Station - West Square Zhongzin Plaza Xiang River Tianlun Road Taishan Plaza Huanghe South Road Zujiang South Road Shennong Grand Theater South Taishan Road Sport Center Huanghe North Road Zhujiang North Road Shennong Grand Theater West Shennong Avenue Hunan University of Technology

Zhuzhou is the second largest city in Hunan Province; it is an industrial city with four key industries are metallurgy, machine manufacture, chemicals and building materials.

Zhuzhou became one of the eight key national-wide industrial cities in the 1st Five-Year-Plan. four out of 156 key projects were set up in Zhuzhou. Later on, more than 20 important factories were built in Zhuzhou.

Zhuzhou's high-tech industrial development zone was approved by the State Council in December 1992 and was designated in a 35 km² (14 sq mi) area next to the Xiang River.^[18]

The high-tech industrial development zone is located less than 10 km (6.2 mi) from China National Highway 320,^[19] and provides incentives to encourage investment in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals; construction materials production, food and agricultural processing, heavy industry, and telecommunications equipment production.^[19][20]

This is a list of institutions with full-time bachelor programs in Zhuzhou:

• Hunan University of Technology(湖南工业大学)

• Zhuzhou Television Tower
• Zhuzhou Stadium

• Southern Hunan uprising (湘南起义), communist lead anti-Nationalist insurgency in today Zhuzhou
• Tomb of Yan emperor, Yan emperor was one of legendary Chinese rulers died and buried in Zhuzhou

• People's Government of Zhuzhou city