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As of 2020, Changsha ranked 8th in the top 10 China's innovation-oriented cities, [100] and 6th (behind Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Beijing) in the Top 10 China's most attractive cities for talent, according to the 21st Century Business Herald report. [101] Changsha has held the title "China's Leading Smart City" since 2021. [102]
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones.It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone.
The time zones of China refer to the time zone divisions used in China between 1918 and 1949. The first time zone plan was proposed by the Central Observatory (now Beijing Ancient Observatory ) of the Beiyang government in Peking ( Beijing ) in 1918.
Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [ 10 ] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
Changsha County is the most developed county in Central China ranking 8th in the Top 100 of counties and county-level cities of China by comprehensive strength in 2020. [6] Changsha County is one of the best developed manufacturing counties and county-level cities in the province, the manufacturing industry is its economic pillar
The regular-speed Changsha Maglev Express connects Changsha Huanghua International Airport and Changsha South railway station, it started operation on 6 May 2016. The Maglev line is 18.5 km long and trains and runs at a speed of 120 km/h to finish the journey in just over 10 minutes. [124]
The history of Changsha dates back to the primitive times. As early as the Paleolithic Period (20,000 to 150,000 years ago), there have been human activities in Changsha. . The 7,100 year old Neolithic cultural relics at Nantuo Datang (南托大塘) have shown us the time-honored rice cultivation civilization of Changs
The Changsha Kingdom was a kingdom within the Han Empire of China, located in present-day Hunan and some surrounding areas. The kingdom was founded when Emperor Gaozu granted the territory to his follower Wu Rui in 203 or 202 BC, around the same time as the establishment of the Han dynasty.