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  Hubei-China City Tours Guide
Hubei Province in central China was so named because the land is located to the north of Dongting Lake in the middle reach of the Yangtze River.
Hubei province is embraced by mountains from the east, west and north, and it is endowed with flat low lands in the center, mountainous area accounts for 56%, hilly area 24% and plains and lake area 20% of the total area.
Hubei is rich in mineral resources 111 minerals Have been found in the province, accounting for 74% of all the 150 minerals already found in the country, 66 mineral reserves have been prospected accounting for 48% of all the 137 prospected mineral reserves.
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 Hubei
Hubei Province lies in the middle reach of the Yangtze River with an area of 186,000 square kilometers.
The terrain of Hubei Province is high in the west and low in the east and wide open to the south, the Jianghan Plain.
The province neighbors Henan Province to the north, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces to the south, Anhui Province to the east, Sichuan Province to the west and Shaanxi Province to the northwest.
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 Hubei
Hubei was one of China's provinces having a concentrated population.
Hubei was one of the regions with active population migration and it was also an important region for in-migration.
Hubei is a province with a large population and small land base, the average areas of arable land and forest per person were 0.97 mu and 1.33 mu (15 mu = 1 hectare) respectively in 1990 (the average arable land per person was 2.16 mu).
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 Hubei - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Hubei, also Hupeh or Hu-pei, province, central China.
The Yangtze flows through nine provinces and forms the eastern border of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).
- province in central China comprising both mountainous territory and the lake-studded plain of the Yangtze River.
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 China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
Hubei is located in the transitional region from the second to the third terrace in the terrain of China, thus having a variety of landforms.
The proportion of various landforms to the total area of the province is as follows: Mountains, 55.5 percent; hills and hillocks, 24.5 percent; and plain and lake areas, 20 percent.
Hubei has long been famed as a "province of thousand lakes." There were more than 1,300 lakes in the province in 1985, including 300 major ones which were three square kilometers each or larger in size.
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 China province Hubei admits extent of AIDS cases from tainted blood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The central Chinese province of Hubei revealed Wednesday the extent of its HIV/AIDS cases from tainted blood, as it prepares to send government employees to live in affected areas to tackle the problem.
Hubei is located next to Henan province, believed to be the worst affected from a blood-selling scandal that is wreaking devastation in farming communities, where some villages have the world's worst infection rates.
Hubei is sending government employees to 21 areas of the province with high rates of infection before the end of March to help tackle AIDS, the Hubei health official said.
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 Hubei Travel / Wuhan Tour & Hotel / Cruise on Three Gorges / Jingzhou Museum / Yichang /   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hubei, a province in central China and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, has so many lakes that it has acquired the nickname, 'Province of a Thousand Lakes'.
The Yangtze and Hanshui rivers converge at Hubei Province's capital, Wuhan, a tripartite city consisting of Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, and a major waterway, highway and airway transportation centre lauded as "Thoroughfare of nine Provinces".
Hubei Museum is in the possession of nearly 200,000 cultural treasures, most of them associated with local history and revolution.
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 Hubei Province
Hubei is rich in mineral resources with 111 minerals found in the province, accounting for 74 per cent of all the 150 minerals already found in the country.
Hubei has strong scientific and technological capability with 2,071 scientific research institutions including 8 key laboratories at the state level and 46 research institutions under the jurisdiction of different state ministries and commissions.
Yichang is near the border of Hubei and Sichuan Provinces and lies at the foot of Hubei’s western mountains.
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 Map of China Province - Region, Regional
The province of Hubei is the agricultural and geographic center of Han China.
As the "Gateway to Nine Provinces", skirted by mountains and midway along the Yangzi between Shanghai and Chongqing, Hubei has always been of great strategic importance, and somewhere that seditious ideas could easily spread to the rest of the country.
Hubei is also a province full of tourist attractions.
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 Hubei Summary
Hubei (Hupei, Hupeh), a central China province that covers an area of 185,900 square kilometers, borders on Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, on Henan in the north, on Anhui in the east, and on Hunan and Jiangxi in the south.
The province is traversed by the Chang (Yangtze) River from west to east, with the greater part of the province located north of the river.
With the unification of China in 221 BCE, Hubei became part of the Chinese empire, but it was not until the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) that immigration from the north accelerated and the province became a wealthy rice-producing area.
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 Hubei Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hubei is the home of the Three Gorges Project in the central Yangzi River Valley.
Wuhan, the capital, is known as one of the "Three Furnaces." Hubei specializes in rice, wheat, cotton, oil-bearing crops, freshwater fish, lotus roots, and water chestnuts.
The 1998 Yangzi floods hit Hubei hard in terms of fatalities, homelessness and lost industrial and agricultural output.
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 Wuhan | Facts about the Hubei Province | Wuhan.com
Hubei is the centre for the co-operation between the provinces Henan, Hunan and Jiangxi that has formed a Central economic belt that in many ways is the most interesting in China today even if the eastern regions still are more internationally well known.
The Hubei Province, with Wuhan as the power centre financial and commercial, has a great potential for investors from abroad as there is a great variety of markets from Chinese medicine, car production/spare parts to fiber and optical solutions.
Hubei is one of the places where the Chinese nation originated and the province was the home of the powerful state of Chu (Spring and Autumn Period 770 BC - 476 BC) that had a splendid and unique culture.
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 Hubei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hebei
The Danjiangkou Reservoir lies on the border between Hubei and Henan.
A considerable Miao and Tujia population live in the southwestern part of the province, especially in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
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 Beauty, the Land of China - Hubei
Hubei runs along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, north of Dongting Lake.
Since ancient times, Hubei has been a well-developed area both in economy and in culture due to its superior, central location.
For those who love natural beauty, Hubei has green carpets of rice fields, clear lakes, blossoming cherry flowers in its east part, and wild mountains with primitive forests, caves, and cool fountains in its western part.
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 Hubei, China
In 1644 the province of Hubei was formed.
Wuhan was the starting-point of the revolution of 1911, which led to the downfall of the Qing dynasty.
Hubei is one of the most important rice-producing (wet rice cultivation) areas in China.
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 Map of Hubei Province, China
Situated in the middle reaches of the Changjiang(Yangtze) River and north of Dongting Lake, Hubei Province borders on Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Shaanxi Provinces and Chongqing Municipality.
The province, a part of the middle basin of the Changjiang River, is surrounded by mountains on three sides.
Hubei enjoys a subtropic monsoon climate, with abundant rainfall and a long frost-free period.The annual mean temperature is 13-18C', and the annual rainfall is 750-1600 mm.
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 Associate Ag Dean Wins Top Honor in China’s Hubei Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hubei Governor Luo Qinquan awarded Guthrie the honor during a Sept. 29 ceremony in Hubei’s capital city, Wuhan.
Hubei gives the Chime Bell Award each year to individuals from other countries who have made exceptional contributions to and improved the lives of the people of Hubei.
The award is named for Hubei’s most prized artifact: a 2400-year-old, 5000-pound set of 65 bronze bells unearthed in the province in 1978.
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 cars - Hubei
Its abbreviation is 鄂 (pinyin: È), an ancient name associated with the eastern part of the province since the Qin Dynasty.
The highest peak in Hubei is Shennong Peak, found in the Daba Mountains and in the forestry area of Shennongjia ; it has an altitude of 3105 m.
Hubei is often called the "Land of Fish and Rice" (鱼米之乡;).
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 Hubei Province travel guide - China travel guide, Hubei China travel services, Hubei tours
Hubei Province partly belonged to the Prefecture of E during the Tang and Song dynasties (618-1279), hence, its abbreviation of E. It is located in the central riches of the Yangtze River, to the north of the Dongting Lake.
The region was under the administration of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods (7 720BC-221BC BC), the Prefecture of Jing in the Han Dynasty (206BC 220), Hubeilu in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Huguang Province in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Hubei Province was set in early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) with Wuhan as the capital city.
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 Country Profile:Gansu Province--People's Daily Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hubei has a sub-tropical monsoonal climate, with distinct contrast between the eastern plain and the western mountainous area.
Hubei also teems with cash crops as tea, natural silk, tobacco and fruit.
Out of the over 110 kinds of minerals found in Hubei, iron, copper, phosphorus, gypsum and rock salt occupy an important position nationwide, and the reserves of several minerals rank the first place in China such as phosphate rock, rutile, garnet, lime sulphur rock, idobromine and borax.
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 Hubei China : General Information and Travel Map of Hubei Province of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gansu province is located at a place with a varied topography, where Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Inner Mongolian Plateau meet.
Most of the middle and east part of it is of special loess topography, the Hexi (or Gansu) Corridor (in northwestern Gansu) is of green land and Gobi Desert intermittently spread.
Gansu province was the place where the main traffic line in ancient time between China and western countries, the famous Silk Road, passed through.
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 The Promotion of Criminal Zhao Zhifei Demonstrates the Evil Nature of Jiang's Chinese Communist Party | Clearharmony - ...
On the 17th of December in 2004, the Department of Personnel of Hubei Province issued a public notice regarding the promotion of four officials to the level of provincial ministers.
Zhao Zhifei, a man born in 1954 in Hanchuan, Hubei Province, China, is currently a member of the Chinese Communist Party Committee and the Associate Director of the Police Department of Hubei Province.
The public announcement from the CCP's Department of Personnel in Hubei Province states that public comments are welcomed before the 24th of December with regard to the promotions of the four people.
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 Hubei Travel Guide: Hubei Tour, Map, Hotel, Tips, Hubei China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hubei province is situated in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and to the north of Dongting Lake.
It is surrounded by Henan Province to the north, Jiangxi and Hunan to the south, Anhui to the east, Sichuan to the west and Shaanxi to the northwest.
Hubei covers an area of 180,000 square kilometers (about 69,500 square miles) with a large population of 60,280,000.
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 Hubei Province, China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Li Yanshow, a historian who lived during the T'Ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), stated that the forests of Hubei province sheltered a band of wildmen.
The You mountain of Sha county, Fujian province, sees the same ones, standing about one zhang (equal to 3.1 meters [just over 10 feet]) in height and smiling to the people they come across, and are called shandaren (men as big as mountains), wildmen, or shanxiao.
A local chronicle, about 200 years old, says that 'the Fang mountain lying 40 li (2 li equals one kilometer [.62 mile]) south to the county town is precipitous and full of holes, where live many maoren, about one zhang high and hair-coated.
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 Hubei Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Site of the great industrial city and river port of wuhan, slashed through by the Yanzi River and its many tributaries, and supporting a population of almost 50 million, Hubei is still one of China's most important provinces.
The eastern two-thirds is a low-lying plain drained by the Yangzi River and its main northern tributary, the Han River The Western third is a area of rugged higlands with small cultivated calleys and basins dividing Hubei from Sichuan.
In the late 9th century it was the first area in the Chinese interior to undergo considerable industrialisation.
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 Anhui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny section in the north.
During the Warring States Period, Shouchun (modern Shou County) in central Anhui became a refugee capital for the state of Chu after its heartlands in modern Hubei province was overrun by the powerful state of Qin in the west, in 278 BC.
The north of the province is part of the North China Plain while the north-central areas are part of the Huai He River watershed.
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