Today's Changsha is the political, economic and cultural centre of Hunan Province , China . Five districts--- Furong, Tianxin, Yuelu, Kaifu and Yuhua, three counties---- Changsha County , Wangcheng, Ningxiang and one city--- Liuyang City are under its jurisdiction. Its total area is 11,800 square kilometers, with a population of more than 6,000,000. As a result of more than 20 years' reform and open, tremendous changes have taken place in Changsha . Rapid and powerful strides have been made especially in the last few years, under the influence of the slogan “one change in a year, big changes in three years”.
In order to combine the ancient culture and the modern civilization and integrate human creativity with natural landscape, the developments of building a business district in the downtown area on the east bank of Xiangjiang River and a culture area of Yuelu Mountain on the west bank have been stepped up, together with the national grade Changsha Economic & Technical Development Zone and High & New Technique Industry Development Zone in Xingsha and Wangchengbo.Three great projects, “The Project of Green Mountains, Blue Water and Pure Sky," “Round-the-City Forestry Ecosphere Project" and "Green Passage Project", have also been completely started, on the foundation of setting up"a landscape belt along Xiangjiang River "and "a landscape belt along Liuyanghe River", which has taken on a completely new look full of vigour and vitality everywhere in Changsha. Changsha has already become more and more beautiful.