In 2013, there were 60 ordinary middle schools in the city, with 56,400 students enrolled; 343 ordinary primary schools (including teaching sites), with 112,200 students enrolled. There is one special school with 86 students in school; there are 208 kindergartens with 40,200 children in kindergarten. In 2013, 35 qualified schools for compulsory education were established. Eliminate 4900m2 of D-level dilapidated school buildings. The new school building area in the city is 8,600 m2, the new campus area is 20 acres, and more than 1,800 new degrees are offered. Private education develops rapidly. There are currently 296 private educational institutions in the city, with assets of 381.03 million yuan, 88,776 students and 5,674 faculty and staff. Vocational education is gradually changing. In 2013, the city's vocational schools had a total enrollment of 1,881 students (including 842 part-time students in the city's vocational schools), of which 1,302 were enrolled in the city's vocational schools and 579 were enrolled in Leiyang Normal School. 2,900 secondary vocational students were sent out of the city, with a diversion ratio of 5.2:4.8.
In 2013, the city's high-tech industry output value reached 8.18 billion yuan, and the added value of the high-tech industry reached 2.28 billion yuan. The city completed 341 patent applications, a year-on-year increase of 57.2%; and 235 patent authorizations, a year-on-year increase of 221%. A new high-tech enterprise, Xuntong Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., was added. Cultivate 2 Hengyang municipal-level energy-saving and emission-reduction technology demonstration enterprises such as Jinyue Technology. At the end of 2013, the city had 4 theaters and cinemas, 1 public library, and 3 museums and memorial halls. The city has 3 provincial-level intangible cultural heritage protection projects, 2 national key cultural relics protection units, and 8 Hunan Provincial key cultural relics protection units. There are 1 radio station and 2 television stations. The comprehensive radio and television coverage rate reaches 99.9%, and the cable TV users reach 110,000 households.
The city has 69 health institutions of various types, including 44 hospitals and health centers, 1 maternal and child health hospital, and 1 CDC. 5 community health service centers and 639 village clinics. There are 3,372 health technicians, including 1,363 practicing physicians and practicing assistant physicians, and 2,009 registered nurses. There are 2,431 beds in hospitals and health centers.
The city has added 76 new rural sports and fitness projects to its villages, and a total of 187 administrative villages in the city have implemented farmers’ sports and fitness projects. Four new sports associations were added. 13 city-wide large-scale mass sports activities were held throughout the year. Participating in regular youth competitions in Hunan Province, the wrestling team won 1 first place, 1 second place, and 1 third place; the weightlifting team won 1 first place and 1 third place; the track and field team won 1 second place. 1 second place, 1 third place; the Taekwondo team won 1 second place, 2 third places; the swimming team won 4 second places, 1 third place. Participated in Hengyang Youth Swimming Competition and won 2 first places, 5 second places, and 3 third places; participated in Hengyang Youth Taekwondo Competition and won 1 second place, and 2 third places. Sending 18 outstanding athletes to higher-level sports colleges and sports teams. In 2013, the city's urban area was 47.23 square kilometers. Among them, the built-up area covers an area of ??42.1 square kilometers. The length of urban roads is 256 kilometers. The number of tap water users reached 37,200, an increase of 8.46%; the total water supply reached 20.91 million cubic meters; the urban sewage treatment capacity reached 7.94 million cubic meters, an increase of 0.38%. The urban green space area reached 1,341 hectares, an increase of 4.4%. There are 14 kilometers of gas pipelines, an increase of 27.27%; the rectification actions of "controlling dust", "controlling blockage" and "controlling chaos" have achieved remarkable results. The amount of harmless treatment of urban garbage reached 198,700 tons, an increase of 11.13%.
The total amount and reduction rate of major pollutant emissions: sulfur dioxide emissions were 8,848 tons, with a reduction rate of 1.69%; oxygen and nitrogen oxide emissions were 24,509 tons, with a reduction rate of 5.69%. The wastewater discharge from industrial enterprises was 5.07 million tons, with a reduction rate of 10.27%. The smoke and dust emissions from industrial enterprises were 2,990 tons, with a reduction rate of 3.11%.
There were 120 various safety production accidents in *** throughout the year, with 7 deaths and 121 injuries, resulting in a direct economic loss of 2.2513 million yuan. The death rate from production safety accidents per 100 million yuan of GDP was 0.022; the death rate from production safety accidents for 100,000 employees in industrial, mining and commercial enterprises was 0.28; the death rate from road traffic accidents per 10,000 vehicles was 2.89. In 2013, the total volume of postal and telecommunications business was 172 million yuan, an increase of 15.4% over the previous year. At the end of the year, there were 833,200 fixed-line telephone users, a decrease of 2.67%. There are 402,200 mobile phone users.
At the end of the year, the number of Internet broadband users was 22,400.