General

Yibin is located on the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, and of Jinsha River, Minjiang River, and Yangtze River. Yibin is in charge of 3 districts and 7 counties, 1 national economic development zone (Lingang Economic Development Zone) and the 1st provincial new area in Sichuan (Sanjiang New Area), 1 provincial high-tech park (Yibin High-Tech Industrial Park).on a total area of 13,283 square kilometers, Yibin is known as the "1st City of the Ten Thousand Mile Yangtze River" "China Liquor Capital""China City of Bamboo" and"China Capital of Power Batteries". By the end of 2023, the city's total registered residence population will be 5.475 million, 8000 fewer than the end of the previous year; The urbanization rate of registered residence population is 37.79%; The permanent population is 4.628 million, an increase of 10000 people from the end of last year; The urbanization rate of the permanent population is 54.91%, an increase of 1.36 percentage points from the end of last year. According to the preliminary results of the unified calculation of regional gross domestic product, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Yibin City in 2023 was 380.664 billion yuan, calculated at constant prices, an increase of 7.5% compared to the previous year.

History

Yibin has a long history. 40,000 years ago, humans had been living in Yibin City. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was a habitat where Bo people lived. It was known as "Ancient Bo State" and "Bo Hou State" in historical records. In the late Warring States period, the current city was included in Qinzhiba and Shu counties. During Li Bing’s term as the magistrate in Shu, the first county-level administrative district was established- Bodao. Bodao City was built in the sixth year of Gaohou in the Western Han Dynasty (182 BC), more than 2,200 years ago. In the sixth year of Jianyuan (135 BC), Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty established Qianwei County. In the tenth year of Datong (544), Emperor Wu of Liang established Rongzhou. In the sixth year of Zhenguan (632), Tang dynasty, Rongzhou Dudufu was established. In addition to directly governing Rongzhou and Bodao and other 5 counties, it also governed 64 Jimi prefectures, which spanned Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and was known as "half of the southwest". In the first year of Tang Tianbao (742), the county under the jurisdiction of Rongzhou changed its name to YÌbin County. In the first year of Song Taiping Xingguo (976), to avoid Taizong Zhao Guangyi's taboo, Yibin County was changed to Yíbin County, which is the beginning of Yibin's name. In the fourth year of Song Xining (1071), Yibin County was reduced to a town and merged into Bodao County. In the fourth year of Zhenghe (1114), Rongzhou was renamed Xuzhou, and Bodao County was renamed Yibin County. In 1935, the Sixth Administrative Inspectorate was established. After Yibin’s peaceful liberation in December 1949, Yibin Special Area and Yibin Area were set up successively. On October 5, 1996, the State Council approved the abolition of Yibin area and the establishment of prefecture-level Yibin city.

Location

Yibin is located in the confluence of Jinsha River, Minjiang River and Yangtze River, the core area of the Sichuan-Chongqing Yunnan-Guizhou junction, and the geometric center of the four capital cities of Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming and Guiyang. It has the advantage of directly absorbing the 37 million population from 3 provinces and 8 cities The advantage is that it is one of the 80 national comprehensive transportation hub cities and 50 railway hubs that the country has focused on; it is an important node of the main channel of the west line of the new land-sea corridor in the west [Chengdu via Luzhou (Yibin), Baise to Beibu Gulf]; it is An important node of the green development axis along the Yangtze River Economic Belt and an important component of the Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration in the upper reaches. In the main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network "6 axes, 7 corridors and 8 passages", there are two axes (Yangtze River Delta-Chengdu main axis, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau-Chengdu main axis) and two corridors (Western Land-Sea Corridor, Chengdu-Chongqing-Kunming Corridor) in Yibin Interchange, Yibin Port is a major inland port established by the state, and is positioned by the Ministry of Transport as a transit port for the trunk and branches of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River, Jinsha River, and Minjiang River in the territory are all officially planned national high-level waterways.

Environment

Located in the south of the Sichuan Basin in the mid-latitudes of East Asia, Yibin belongs to the subtropical humid monsoon climate zone. The shallow hills and valleys have both southern subtropical climate attributes, and the southern mountainous area has an obvious three-dimensional climate. The overall characteristics are mild climate, abundant rainfall, long frost-free period, rain and heat in the same season, and four distinct seasons. The characteristics of each season are early warming in spring, frequently affected by cold wave; high temperature and humidity during summer, concentrated rainfall; late autumn, rapid cooling, and continuous rain; mild climate during winter with little frost and snow; autumn and winter with more clouds and fog. Compared with the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River of the same latitude, the distribution of four seasons in Yibin can be characterized as early spring, long summer, late autumn, and short winter. The territory has abundant heat in four seasons, and the annual average temperature is approximately 17.5°C.