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Ezhou Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Hubei Province , In Chinese [鄂州市]

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Administrative Division Code : 420700;
Post Code : 436000;
Phone Area Code :0711
The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 鄂G
The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 420700
Area Coverage: 1504 square kilometers;
Population : 1,067,000 persons;
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The adminitrative division form of Ezhou is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have juridiction over some small cities in China.
Subdivisions Under the jurisdication of Ezhou Municipality
S/NFull NameIn Chinese In PinyinDivison type
1E'cheng District鄂城区E'cheng QuDistrict
2Huarong District华容区Huarong QuDistrict
3Liangzihu District梁子湖区Liangzihu QuDistrict
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Overview



Ezhou，which covers an area of 1.504 square kilometers with a population of 1.05 million, is one of the most important port cities in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and also famous as the hometown of blunt-snout bream and archaic bronze mirror.



As a tourist city close to the Yangtze River, Ezhou is the one of great beauty, with mountains, rivers and city as an integral whole. It has the natural scenery of landscape based on Xishan Mountain, Liangzi Lake and Yanglan Lake; the attractions of historic sites including Yitingming Precipice, King Wu’s City, Guanyin( Goddess of Mercy)Pavilion; the humanistic sights represented by some historical celebrities like Sun Quan, Yuan Jie and Su Shi; and Buddhism attractions symbolized by Gulingquan Temple which is the birthplace of “ Pure Land Sect ” in Buddhism as well as the birthplace of the famous hometown of archaic bronze mirror all over the country. All of these have made Ezhou an important city along “Sanguo (Three Kingdoms Period) tourist Line” and “Yangtze Tourist Zone”, and one of the very important part of Chu Culture Tourist Area of Hubei province as well.



Ezhou is one of the birthplaces of Chu culture. As the former capital of King Wu in Three Kingdoms Period (220–280), Ezhou has quite a lot of historic sites, with various humanistic cultures gathered together. Sun Quan left many historic cultural sites for posterity, including the relics of King Wu’s City, the relics of Haotang, the one of King Wu’s Reading Room, King Wu’s Summer Palace, King Wu’s Throne-ascending Forum, Jiuqu Pavilion, Guangyan Building, Sword-testing Stone, Sanhua Beach, Fishing Terrace , Fankou, King Wu’s Troops Station, Drill Ground, etc. At the same time, there are a large number of cultural and artistic works, poetry, paintings, and popular legend represented by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms” (name of a classic novel) which added strong flavor of Three Kingdoms and Wu cultures to the city. In addition, the historical figures represented by Sun Quan, Ge Hong, Yuan Jie, Li Yangbing, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, as well as Ezhou Cultural relics preserved in Xishan Mountain, Liangzi Lake, Yanglan Lake, Zhaoshan Hill have both made our city the one of typical Three Kingdoms culture and Wu culture in our country.


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