2. Wuhan is located in the east of Jianghan Plain and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River and its largest tributary, the Han River, meet in the city, forming a pattern of three towns in Wuhan separated by a river. Rivers, lakes and ports crisscross the city, and the water area accounts for a quarter of the city's total area. As the economic and geographical center of China, Wuhan is known as the thoroughfare of nine provinces, the largest land, sea and air transportation hub in China and the shipping center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Its high-speed rail network radiates more than half of China, making it the only city in Central China that can fly directly to five continents.
3. Wuhan is the headquarters of the Joint Logistics Support Force, the core city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the strategic fulcrum of the rise of central China, and the experimental zone for comprehensive innovation and reform. It is also one of the three intellectually intensive areas in China. China Optics Valley is committed to building an innovation and entrepreneurship center with global influence. According to the requirements of the National Development and Reform Commission, Wuhan is accelerating the construction of a national central city supported by four functions: national economic center, high-level scientific and technological innovation center, business logistics center and international exchange center.
Wuhan is a national historical and cultural city and an important birthplace of Chu culture. The site of Panlongcheng in China has a history of 3,500 years. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wuhan has been the military and commercial center in the south of China, and became the most prosperous place in Chu and one of the four famous places in the world in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The opening of Hankou Port and the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty started the modernization process of Wuhan, making it an important economic center in modern China and known as "Oriental Chicago". Wuhan, the starting place of the Revolution of 1911, became the national political, military and cultural center several times in modern history.
5. The landform of Wuhan is a transitional area from the hills in southeastern Hubei to the low mountains at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain through the eastern edge of Hanjiang Plain, with a low level in the middle, surrounded by hills in the north and south, and low mountains in the north. The area of low mountains, hills, ridges, plains and plains in the city accounts for 5.8%, 12.3%, 42.6% and 39.3% of the total land area respectively, and the altitude ranges from19.2m to 873.7m, and most of them are below 50m.