Zhuzhou (Chinese: 株洲; pinyin: Zhūzhōu), formerly Jianning, is a city inHunan Province, China, southeast of Changsha beside the Xiangjiang River. It is part of the "ChangZhuTan Golden Triangle" (comprising the cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan). The city has jurisdiction over 5 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.
It had 3,855,609 inhabitants as of the 2010 census of whom 806,988 lived in the built up area'(4 urban districts). With areas adjoining Zhuzhou going to be agglomerated in a few years time, the joint built up area will be home to 2,586,948 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 the second largest city in Hunan Province, and it's 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. 4 out of 156 key projects were set up in Zhuzhou. Later on, more than 20 important factories were built in Zhuzhou.
