Yueyang North railway station (Chinese: 岳阳北站) is a freight handling station in Yueyanglou District, Yueyang, Hunan, China. It is situated on the Beijing–Guangzhou railway. In 2019, a connecting line was opened between the station and the new Haoji Railway. On 23 December 2021, a project started to expand the station. This was completed on 15 September 2022.
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Dongting Lake Bridge is a bridge in China which carries the Haoji Railway across Dongting Lake. The bridge was opened with the Haoji Railway on 28 September 2019.
The bridge is 10,444 metres long in total. The combined cable-stayed truss section is 1,290 metres long. It has a line speed limit of 120 kilometres per hour.
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The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the second-largest tributary in terms of surface runoff, the fifth-largest tributary by drainage area of the Yangtze tributaries. The river flows generally northeast through the provinces of Guangxi and Hunan, its tributaries reaching into Jiangxi and Guangdong.
Traditionally, it was regarded that the West Branch is the Main Stream of the Upper Xiang, which rises in the Haiyang Mountains between Xing'an and Lingchuan counties of Guangxi. In the 1st national water census of China in 2011, the East Branch Xiao River, was identified as the Main Stem of the Upper Xiang. The Ping Island of Yongzhou is the meeting of the two streams, the West source originating from Guangxi and the East source of the Xiao River originating from Lanshan County of Hunan.
With the tributaries, the Xiang has a river basin area of 94,721 square kilometres, of which Hunan has an area of 85,383 square kilometres. In a situation of Guangxi source, the Xiang has a length of 844 kilometres; In another situation of Xiao River as the main source stream, the Xiang has a length of 948 kilometres.
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Yueyang East railway station is a railway station located in Yueyanglou District, Yueyang, Hunan Province, China. It is on the Wuhan–Guangzhou high-speed railway, a segment of the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway. The station opened in 2009. It is also the last station in Hunan before the train crosses the border to Hubei Province at Chibi North railway station.
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Wulipai Subdistrict is a subdistrict and the seat of Yueyanglou District in Yueyang Prefecture-level City, Hunan, China. It was originally a subdistrict in South District of Yueyang and formed in 1984. On March 16, 1996, the South District ceased as a district, it was merged to the newly established Yueyanglou District. The subdistrict has an area of about 7 km2 with a population of 66,043. The subdistrict has nine communities under its jurisdiction. Its seat is Wulipai Community.
The Xincheng Community in the Wulipai Subdistrict of the Yueyang Tower District is located on Jianxiang Road near Yueyang Tower, covering an area of 0.7 square kilometers. It has a resident population of 3,293 people and a floating population of 1,627 people. The community currently has 17 staff members and has established three party branches under its community party branch, with a total of 275 party members. The community is divided into eight grids and includes two residential complexes, making it a comprehensive urban community that integrates living, commerce, and leisure.
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Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Baling, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze river in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China.
Yueyang has an administrative area of 14,896 km2 and the city proper, 304 km2. The population was 5,051,922 at the 2020 Chinese census whom 1,134,058 lived in the built-up area made up of Yueyanglou District and Yunxi District, Junshan District not being conurbated. Yueyang is the only international trade port city in Hunan and a famous port city in China, at the same time, Yueyang's comprehensive economic strength ranks of Hunan second only to Changsha, the provincial capital.
The city's most famous attractions are the Yueyang Tower and Dongting Lake. The most famous food is Dongting lake silver fish.
In 2021, the city's permanent resident population was 5,051,922, a decrease of 424,162 from the end of last year.