Changzhi

Changzhi is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Shanxi Province, China, bordering Hebei to the northeast and Henan to the east. Historically it was one of the 36 administrative areas under Qin Shi Huang. It is a transportation centre for Shanxi, served by four controlled-access highways, two railways (the Taiyuan-Jiaozuo and Handan-Changzhi lines), three national highways and Changzhi Wangcun Airport. It is also a rising commercial and industrial centre in the southeast of the province, and in 2011 its GDP ranked first among Shanxi's eleven prefecture-level cities. At the 2020 census the city had 3,180,884 residents, of whom 1,214,940 lived in the built-up area formed by Luzhou and Shangdang Districts; the other two urban districts, Tunliu and Lucheng, are not yet joined to it.