assistant: Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and Yangtze in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China.

Yueyang has an administrative area of 14,896 km2 (5,751 sq mi) and the city proper, 304 km2 (117 sq mi). The population was 5,051,922 at the 2020 Chinese census whom 1,134,058 lived in the built-up (or metro) 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.
The Yueyang prefecture is made up of six outlying districts, two special districts and the city proper. The six city districts are Huarong, Linxiang, Xiangyin, Pingjiang, Miluo and Yueyang County. The two special (smaller) districts are Junshan and Yunxi, which used to be part of Yueyang city proper but were separated into their own special districts for administrative purposes.

History：
The area now called Yueyang has been inhabited for over 3,000 years. It was originally established as a prefecture called Hanchang (Hanchang) by Sun Wu in 210 AD during the Three Kingdoms period. It was called Ximi during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period under the Chu state.

Under the Song Dynasty (AD 960-AD 1279) it was heavily fortified, with walls 4 miles (6.4 km) in circumference, and became the seat of the military prefecture of Yueyang, whence its present name. During the Taiping Rebellion, its capture by the rebels in AD 1852 was an important stage in their advance up the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing. At the time of the foundation of the Republic of China in AD 1911, it became a county, taking the name Yueyang.

Yueyang Tower：
Yueyang Tower is an ancient Chinese tower in Yueyang, Hunan Province, on the shore of Lake Dongting. Alongside the Pavilion of Prince Teng and Yellow Crane Tower, it is one of the Three Great Towers of Jiangnan, and attracts many tourists. It is a famous place for tourism.

Transportation：
Yueyang has two Yangtze River crossings, the Jingyue Yangtze River Bridge and Dongting Lake Bridge.
The city is served by Yueyang Sanhe Airport.

Education：
There are a total of six colleges and polytechnic schools and several medical schools, the largest of which is Hunan Institute of Science and Technology.
Other colleges include:

Hunan Polytechnic
Radio and TV University Yueyang
National Institute of Occupational Hunan
Hunan petrochemical Vocational and Technical College
Yueyang Vocational and Technical College
Schools:

The No.1 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (key provincial)http://www.yysyz.com.cn/
The No. 2 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 3 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 4 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The High School of Yueyang City
The No. 6 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 7 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (Music School of the City of Yueyang)
The No. 8 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 9 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 10 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 11 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (secondary school Yueyang Financial, in 1990 Technical School)
The No. 12 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
Changlian Middle School (key provincial)
The Yuehua Middle School (key provincial)
Middle School of the City of Miluo (key provincial)
The No.19 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No.1 Middle School of Huarong (key provincial)

Secondary Vocational Schools

Yueyang City Ahafo language 1,193,280.20
Zhongshan Yueyang City School Finance
Pok Man Foreign Languages School
Huarong County Vocational Schools
Yueyang County Vocational Schools
Great Wall vocational schools
Primary Schools

Yueyang Tower Primary
Nanhu Primary
Dongfanghong Primary
Chaoyang Primary
Fengshu Primary

culture
Because it is located on the main road of the Yangtze River, most of the migrants and poets who have been demoted since ancient times gathered here and then diverted. They can go up the Yangtze River to the Ba and Shu areas, and go down the Xiangjiang River to the South Vietnam area. This also formed a unique demotion. Culture, Yueyang Tower, one of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, is a symbol of the city. There are inscriptions on it by famous poets such as Du Fu and Liu Yuxi.

tourism
"Dongting is the world's water, and Yueyang is the world's building". Yueyang has been a famous scenic spot since ancient times. There are 193 scenic and historical sites in the city, including 6 national key cultural relics protection units and 17 provincial cultural relics protection units. Yueyang Tower is a parade building built by General Lu Su of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. It is more than 1,700 years ago and is the only national key cultural relic protection unit among the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River that maintains its original appearance. Miluo River is the place where Qu Yuan, a world cultural celebrity, threw himself into the river to die for his country. In the late Warring States period, Qu Yuan, a senior official of the state of Chu, was exiled to Dongting Lake and Miluo River. After writing immortal poems such as "Li Sao", "Nine Songs" and "Nine Chapters", he threw himself into the Miluo River to die for his country. Sao Tan and other monuments. The Miluo River thus became the birthplace of Chinese dragon boat culture, and in 1995 the first World Dragon Boat Championships was successfully held. Junshan Island, the 11th blessed place of Taoism in Dongting, 800 miles away, is said to be the burial place of Emperor Shun's concubine Ehuang Nvying. The island is full of historic sites and beautiful scenery, which was praised by Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, as "a green snail in a silver plate". In addition, there are thousands of birds flying together in Yueyang, which is included in the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve of the United Nations Convention on Wetlands; Village (in the words of Zheng Kaoxie, deputy minister of the Ministry of Construction); Nanhu Lake with "smoke-free autumn water and night", Tuanhu Lake with ten miles of lotus flowers; Dayunshan National Forest Park, Wujianshan Provincial Forest Park, the tomb of the poet Du Fu, Linxiang cellar Cultural and natural landscapes such as the ruins of the ancestors of the Yao people in Shanshan, as well as the sites of revolutionary history such as the site of the Pingjiang Uprising and the former residence of Ren Bishi.

In 1979, Yueyang was identified as a tourist city open to the outside world; in 1992, it was approved by the State Council as a key open city along the Yangtze River. In 1988, Yueyang Tower Dongting Lake Scenic Area was announced by the State Council as a national key scenic area. The East Dongting Lake Nature Reserve joined the United Nations International Convention on Wetlands - the Ramsar Convention in 1992, and was listed as a national nature reserve by the State Council in 1994. In January 1994, Yueyang City was listed as a national historical and cultural city. In 1996, Dayunshan Forest Park was upgraded to a national forest park. In 1999, Yueyang was approved by the state as the first batch of China's excellent tourist cities and advanced units of national civilized cities.

In 2017, the total number of tourists received by Yueyang was 48.9279 million, and the total tourism revenue was 42.777 billion yuan. It received 303,000 inbound tourists, and the tourism income was 139 million US dollars.

Ten Scenes of Yueyang
Famous Building Yangzhe (Yueyang Tower)
Dongting Fudai (Junshan Island)
South Lake Rafting (South Lake)
Golden Osprey Emerald (Golden Osprey Mountain)
Picking lotuses in Tuanhu (Tuanhu)
Yuzhen Yinsao (Quzi Ancestral Hall)
Five-point Competition (Five-point Mountain)
Ancient Village Remains (Zhang Guying Village)
The Trace of the Poet Sage (Du Fu Tomb)
Exploring Yunshan (Dayunshan)
other places of interest
Xiao Qiao Tomb
Cishi Pagoda
Mausoleum of Lu Su
St. Angu's Temple
National key units
Former Residence of Ren Bishi
Site of the Pingjiang Uprising
Yueyang Tower
Quzi Ancestral Hall
Yueyang Confucian Temple
Zhang Guying Village Ancient Buildings
Tonggushan Ruins
Luoziguo City Ruins
Dajitou Ruins
Longjiao Mountain Stone Tombs
Cishi Pagoda
Xiangyin Confucian Temple