Zhuzhou

Administrative divisions

Zhuzhou city administers five districts, one county-level city and three counties.

• 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 established the following administrative areas:

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

Government

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.

Transportation

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.

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 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.

A study based on the Zhuzhou Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit demonstration line analyzed the characteristics and feasibility of the intelligent rail express system.

Industry

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.

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

Colleges and universities

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

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

Building and structures

• Zhuzhou Television Tower
• Zhuzhou Stadium

International relations

Twin towns – sister cities

Zhuzhou is twinned with:

• Vanadzor, Armenia
• Sumgait, Azerbaijan
• Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway and Zhuzhou signed a twin town agreement in 1999 after establishing contact in 1995. The two cities also signed agreements on student and competence exchange and culture. Also, two elementary schools—one in Zhuzhou and one in Fredrikstad—signed an agreement on friendship cooperation.
• Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Southern Pines, North Carolina, United States; The O'Neal School in Southern Pines, North Carolina has partnered and developed an exchange program with Nanfang High School and Zhuzhou Foreign Language School.
• City of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa