Changde City, anciently known as Wuling and Langzhou, alias Liu Cheng, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province, is an important node city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and an important part of the Dongting Lake Ecological and Economic Zone. As of 2022, the city has two municipal districts, six counties, and one county-level city under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 18,200 square kilometers, a resident population of 5,213,000, an urban population of 3,008,000, and an urbanization rate of 57.7%. Changde City is located in the north of Hunan Province, on the west side of Dongting Lake in the south of the country, under the Wuling Mountains, and is historically known as the "throat of Sichuan-Guizhou and the gateway to Yunnan-Guizhou". The name of Changde City is derived from Laozi's "For the world's streams, Changde is not far away", the historical story "Liu Hai cuts wood", "Meng Jiangnu cries at the Great Wall" and Tao Yuanming's "The Tale of Peach Blossom Garden". Romanticism has permeated the history of Changde City for more than 2,000 years, creating Changde's unique "Good Virtue Culture". Changde City has been honored as China's Outstanding Tourist City, National Sanitary City, National Garden City, China's First Charming City, International Wetland City, International Garden City, National Model Traffic Management City, National Model Environmental Protection City, and the City of Chinese Poetry. In 2022, Changde's gross regional product will be 427.452 billion yuan.