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Economy
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Official Contact Information
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| Area : 185,900 km2
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Agriculture : cotton, maize, potato,
rapeseed, rice, tea, tobacco, wheat
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Provincial government office address :
Shuiguohu, Wuchang, Wuhan City 430-071
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| Capital and Largest City : Wuhan
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Animal products : beef, fish, mutton,
pork, silk cocoons, waterfowl
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Telephone : (86)(27) 8723-5544,
8723-5552
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| English meaning of name : North of
the Lake (i.e. Dongting Lake)
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Foreign direct investment (2002) :
US$1.4 billion
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Website (Chinese) : www.cnhubei.com/
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| Major Nationalities (2000) : Han
95.6%, Tujia 3.7%, Miao 0.4%
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GDP (2002) : 497.6 billion yuan
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Website (English) :
www.hubei.gov.cn/indexen.htm
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| Organization : 13 prefectures; 102
counties; 1234 townships
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GDP per capita : 8309 yuan
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Transportation
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| Population (2002) : 59,880,000
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Industry : automobiles, building
materials, chemicals, construction, machinery, metallurgy, textiles
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Airports : Wuhan Tianhe Airport
(WUH), Xiangfan Airport (XFN), Yichang Airport (YIH), Shashi Airport (SHS)
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| Population density : 322/km2
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List of desired foreign investment projects
: not available
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Highways/railroads : 65,000 km of
highways including over 1,000 km of expressways; several major rail lines
including the Beijing-Guangzhou line traverse the province
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| Weather : hot, wet summers; cool to
cold, dry winters
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Mineral resources : borax, copper,
garnet, gold amalgam, gypsum, hongshiite, iron, manganese, marlstone,
phosphorus, rock salt, rutile, selenium*, vanadium, wollastonite
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Major seaports : None; however,
Wuhan, Huangshi, Shashi and Yichang are Yangtze river ports open to foreign
shipping
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| *: the world's largest known deposit of
selenium ore was discovered in Hubei in 1997.
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