Place:Liuyang, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

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Liuyang is a county-level city, the most populous and the easternmost county-level division of Hunan Province, China; it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changsha, the provincial capital. Located on the northeastern margin of Hunan, the city is bordered to the north by Pingjiang County, to the west by Changsha County and Yuhua District, to the south by Shifeng, Hetang Districts of Zhuzhou and Liling City, to the southeast and the east by Yuanzhou District of Yichun, Shangli, Wanzai and Tonggu Counties of Jiangxi. Liuyang City covers with registered population of 1,453,246 and resident population of 1,297,700 (as of 2014). The city has four subdistricts, 26 towns and two townships under its jurisdiction, its jurisdiction, its administrative centre is at Guankou Subdistrict.^[1][2]

Liuyang is home to the Hakka people with a population of more than 200,000, who immigrated here from Meizhou of Guangdong or Jiangxi in later Ming and early Qing dynasties. It is one of the richest counties and county-level cities in tourism resources. As it was a revolutionary base area in the Chinese Revolution, there are many red tourism attractions and former residences of famous figures.

Liuyang is one of the most developed counties and county-level cities, it is one of the best developed manufacturing counties and county-level cities in the province, the manufacturing industry is its economic pillar. Liuyang's manufacturing engines are electronic and information, biomedicine, machinery manufacture, fireworks and firecrackers, food and beverage, materials and energy, furniture and decoration. For example, the gross domestic product of Liuyang in 2015 was CN￥111.28 billion (US$17.87 billion). Of this total, the value added of the manufacturing industry was CN￥71.37 billion (US$11.46 billion), shares 64.14 percentage of its GDP. Fireworks and firecrackers have being been its traditional industry.

Fireworks and firecrackers originated in Liuyang and it has always been the centre of fireworks production in China, spanning more than 1,400 years. Fireworks sales by Liuyang account for about half of China's gross sales of CN￥ 29.41 billion (US$4.34 billion). Liuyang is also home of the International Fireworks Association.

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