In Chenzhou, the landform is complex and varied, featured with relatively more mountains and less waters, and with its highlands and plains at almost the same proportions. The acreage of mountains and hills accounts for nearly 75% of the city’s total. The southeast part is as high as most of it is mountainous. The northwest is low, where hills, highlands and plains prevail.

 

At the end of 2001, the total population of Chenzhou City was 4,559,600, with 26% in urban areas and 74% in rural areas. Now Chenzhou has jurisdiction over two districts (Beihu and Suxian), one city (Zixing), and eight counties (Guiyang, Yongxing, Yizhang, Jiahe, Linwu, Rucheng, Anren and Guidong). It covers 19,400 km2, taking up 9.2% of Hunan Province’s total area. The average acreage each person numbers 7.09 mu (about 2.87 hectares), 1.7 mu (about 0.69 hectares) more than the provincial average, ranking third in Hunan Province.

 

The Chenzhou city proper lies in the center of Chenzhou city. It functions as the political, economic, cultural, scientific, technological and educational center of the city.

 

Chenzhou city ranges from the latitude 24°53′ to 26°50′ in the Northern Hemisphere. It is within the area of the subtropical monsoon humid climate, featured by distinct four seasons, that is, early and changeable spring, hot and long summer, compared with sunny and dry autumn, and cold and short winter. This is influenced by the comprehensive qualities of the Nanling Mountain Range: physiognomy, soil, vegetation, and height above sea level. The average temperature for years records 17.4℃, and the average rainfall 1,452.1 mm, up 30% over the all continent’s average of the world.