Zhijiang () is a county-level city of

Yichang Yichang (), alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. It is the third largest city in the province after the capital, Wuhan and the prefecture-level city Xiangyang, by urban populati ...

City, in the west of

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p ...

province, People's Republic of China. Until the 1990s Zhijiang was a county. It is located on the left (northern) shore of the

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, downstream from Yichang center city.

Administrative divisions

One subdistrict: * Majiadian Subdistrict () Eight towns: * Anfusi (), (), Gujiadian (), Dongshi (), Xiannü (), Wen'an (), Qixingtai (), Bailizhou ()

Climate

Zhijiang has a

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(

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''Cfa'') with hot, rainy summers and cool winters. Rainfall occurs throughout the year but is significantly heavier between April and August.

Education

* Zhijiang High School

Transport

China National Highway 318 China National Highway 318 (G318) runs from Shanghai to Zhangmu on the China-Nepal border. It is the longest China National Highway at in length and runs west from Shanghai towards Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, and ends in Tibet Au ...

* Yichang Sanxia Airport * Jiaozuo–Liuzhou Railway

Lü Banglie

In October 2005, Zhijiang was in the news because one of the delegates to its (county-level) People's Congress, Lu Banglie (), a village-rights activist, was savagely beaten on October 8, 2005 in the village of

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(), in Yuwotou town,

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District,

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, by unknown persons. The beating was witnessed by Benjamin Joffe-Walt, correspondent for ''

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'' newspaper of the UK, who was himself threatened and believed Lü had been killed. Since 2004, Lü has been the popularly elected head of Baoyuesi village (; ), in the town of (), situated on a peninsula in the

and the only town in Zhijiang not on the river's left bank; there is no road connection between Bailizhou and the city's other towns. He is the first elected village head in the history of the People's Republic of China. The beating may have been intended to prevent a similar popular election from taking place in Taishi.

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