Where is Tianmen?

Hubei Tianmen City is located in the Jianghan Plain in the hinterland of central Hubei. It has an advantageous geographical location. It connects to Jingsha in the upper part and Wuhan in the lower part. It borders the Jianghan Golden Waterway in the south and the Three Gorges Transit Railway in the north. It is closely connected to National Highways 107 and 318 and Yizhou. yellow highway. The city has a land area of ??2,622 square kilometers and a population of 1.73 million; it has strong reception and radiation capabilities in the Yangtze River and Hanshui Economic Development Zone.

Tianmen, known as Jingling in ancient times, was renamed Tianmen in the fourth year of Yongzheng reign in the Qing Dynasty (1726 AD). Counting from the establishment of Jingling County in the Qin Dynasty, Tianmen has a county system history of more than 2,000 years. In August 1987, it was removed from the county and established as a city, and in October 1994, it was approved as a city under direct provincial administration.

Tianmen City is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in mainland China and a key hometown of overseas Chinese in Hubei Province. There are more than 78,000 overseas Chinese, Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao living in Tianmen, distributed in more than 40 countries and regions on five continents of the world. There are more than 500 returned overseas Chinese in the city, and more than 82,000 family members of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao.

Tianmen overseas Chinese began to go abroad at the end of the 18th century, and have gone through several stages, including the period of going north (Europe), going south (Southeast Asia) and the period of new immigrants.

Tianmen City is a prestigious cultural town. World cultural celebrity "Tea Saint" Lu Yu, Tang Dynasty poet Pi Rixiu, Ming Dynasty Jingling School literary representatives Zhong Xing and Tan Yuanchun and Qing Dynasty champion Jiang Liyong were born here. Since the restoration of the college entrance examination system, Tianmen University has sent more than 54,000 college students to the country and is known as the "Hometown of the Number One Scholar" nationwide.

There are places of interest and historical sites all over Tianmen. The territory contains the largest primitive society village site in the Yangtze River Basin so far - the Shijiahe Neolithic Village Site, the well-preserved and magnificent famous Buddhist temple - Bailong Temple, which was built in the Southern Dynasties, and the Lu Yu Pavilion in memory of Lu Yu. There are Literary Spring, Ancient Wild Goose Bridge, Zhongxing Tomb, Tan Yuanchun Tomb, and the beautiful East Lake and West Lake Scenic Areas...

Resident zip code: Municipal People’s Government is located in Jingling Street. Postal code: 431700. Administrative division code: 429006. Area code: 0728. Pinyin: Tianmen Shi.