Changsha, China

Current time in Changsha, China

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Time zone: Asia/Beijing
Standard time zone:UTC/GMT +8:00.China Standard Time is eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time standard, written as an offset of UTC + 8:00. That means to find the standard time in the zone you must add eight hours to Coordinated Universal Time. Erritories observing the time zone are primarily in Asia. It runs through China, for example: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hebei Province, Xizang Province, Macao, HongKong, and Taiwan Province.

Changsha City, the capital of Hunan Province in China, is the political, economic, cultural, transportation, science and technology, financial, and information center of the province. It holds great significance as an important city along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It is a pilot area for the national "Resource-saving and Environment-friendly Society" construction. It is a nationally important grain production center. It is a node city within the city cluster along the Yangtze middle reaches and the Yangtze Economic Belt. It is a hub for the Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, and Chongqing-Xiamen High-speed Railway.

Changsha was in the first group of cities designated as “national famous historical and cultural” cities. It has a history of more than 3,000 years. It was the place where Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet in the state of Chu during the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC) and Jia Yi, a renowned scholar in the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD) once lived; a well-known Chu-Han City; and, the center of Confucian learning in Hunan.

Changsha features many famous historical sites, including: the Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tomb; the Four-Goat Square Zun; the Three Kingdom Wu bamboo slips; Yuelu Academy, and Tongguan Kiln. It is the cradle of Huxiang culture which is famous for its practicality and inclusiveness.

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