Xiangtan

Xiangtan 湘潭市 Siangtan; Hsiangtan
Prefecture-level city
Jinyuan Square (2010 photo)
Location of Xiangtan Prefecture within Hunan Province.
Xiangtan Location of the city centre in Hunan
Coordinates (Xiangtan municipal government): 27°49′53″N 112°56′43″E / 27.8313°N 112.9454°E / 27.8313; 112.9454
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
Municipal seat	Yuetang District
Government
• Mayor	Zhang Yingchun (张迎春)
• Party Secretary	Cao Jiongfang (曹炯芳)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	5,006 km2 (1,933 sq mi)
• Urban  (2017)[1]	169.02 km2 (65.26 sq mi)
• Districts[1]	657.7 km2 (253.9 sq mi)
Population  (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	2,752,171
• Density	550/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
• Urban  (2017)[1]	817,600
• Urban density	4,800/km2 (13,000/sq mi)
• Districts[1]	915,000
GDP[2]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 269.8 billion US$ 40.0 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 98,947 US$ 14,713
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-HN-03
Website	www.xiangtan.gov.cn

Xiangtan (Chinese: 湘潭) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, are in Xiangtan's administration, as well as the hometowns of Qing dynasty and republic era painter Qi Baishi, scholar-general Zeng Guofan, and tennis player Peng Shuai.

Xiangtan forms a part of the Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region with Changsha as the core city along with Zhuzhou, also known as Changzhutan City Cluster, one of the core cities in Central China.

Xiangtan is one of the top 500 cities in the world by scientific research outputs, as tracked by the Nature Index.^[3] It is home to Xiangtan University, a Double First-Class Construction university, and two provincial key public universities of Hunan Institute of Engineering and Hunan University of Science and Technology.^[4]