Liuyang is a county-level city

County-level city

A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....

 in Changsha, the capital of Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

 province in China

China

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. Liuyang is well known for its fireworks

Fireworks

Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event is a display of the effects produced by firework devices...

 industry. It has an area of 5,008 square kilometres and a population of 1,380,000 as of 2003.

Liuyang shares an important place in the history of the origination of fireworks. These flowers as the Chinese name implies (literally Fire Flower) are not just appreciated by Chinese but have also been appreciated by people from numerous countries and cultures.

The Liuyang River is the main source for irrigation in Liuyang. There is also a very famous song named "Liuyanghe", composed in 1950 by Tang Biguang and Xu Shuhua, the theme of which relates to the river and the nearby village of Shaoshan

Shaoshan

Shaoshan is a county-level city in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, noted as the birthplace of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China. Shaoshan was an important base during the Chinese Communist Revolution....

, where Chairman Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

 was born, and is a karaoke favorite in the town.

Chrysanthemum stones are another famous item. They are available in many sizes and can range in price from less than a dollar, to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Revolutionary history

In September 1927 Mao Zedong assembled Left-Kuomintang

Kuomintang

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 troops here, in the town of Wenjiashi (文家市) hard on the Jiangxi border, for the Com-Intern

Comintern

The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

-planned seizure of Changsha, the provincial capital, 100 km to the west.

Mao led the troops 170 km south into the Jinggangshan Mountains. Half a year later he was joined there by the troops of Zhu De

Zhu De

Zhu De was a Chinese militarist, politician, revolutionary, and one of the pioneers of the Chinese Communist Party. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1955 Zhu became one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army, of which he is regarded as the founder.-Early...

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Administrative divisions

The city executive, legislature and Basic People's Court

Basic people's court

A basic people's court is a lowest level court in the Courts of General Jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China. According to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China, the basic people's courts handle the first instance cases at the local level.Basic people's...

 (judiciary) are in Guankou Street, together with the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

 (CPC) and Public Security Bureau

Public Security Bureau

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 (PSB) branches. The town-level territorial entities overseen by these organs (with links to their web pages on www.agri.com.cn - an agricultural produce site) are:

Street committees

Subdistrict (China)

The subdistrict , is one of the smallest political divisions of China. It is a form of township-level division which is typically part of a larger urban area, as opposed to a discrete town surrounded by rural areas, or a rural townships known as a xiang .In general, urban areas are divided into...

• Guankou (关口街道)
• Hehua (荷花街道)
• Jili (集里街道)
• Huaichuan (淮川街道)

Towns

• Shegang
• Longfu
• Chunkou
• Shashi (沙市镇)
• YongAn (永安镇)
• Beisheng
• Zhangfang
• Chengtanjiang
• Zhonghe (中和镇)
• Wenjiashi
• Yonghe (永和镇)
• Guandu
• Gugang
• Yanxi
• Zhentou (镇头镇)
• Taipingqiao
• Puji
• JinGang(金刚镇)
• Guanqiao
• Dayao
• Daweishan
• Dahu
• Chengchong

Townships

• Xijiang
• Qibaoshan
• Guanqiao (官桥乡)
• Baijia
• Gaoping
• Gejia
• Sankou
• Dongyang
• Yanghua
• Xiaohe
• Jiaoxi