Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou is a Chinese city and the provincial capital of Henan Province in east-central China. As a prefecture-level city, it also serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational centre of the province, as well as a major transportation hub for Central China. The city lies on the southern bank of the Yellow River, and is one of the Eight Great Ancient Capitals of China.

Zhengzhou has a population of 9,378,000 inhabitants with an urban population of 6,406,000, the city is one of the main built-up areas of Henan region. Zhengzhou is now a rapidly growing city.

Greater Zhengzhou was named as one of the 13 emerging megacities or megalopolises in China in a July 2012 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Climate
Zhengzhou experiences a monsoon-influenced, four-season humid subtropical climate, with cool, dry winters and hot, humid summers. Spring and autumn are dry and somewhat abbreviated transition periods. The city has an annual mean temperature of 14.35 °C (57.8 °F), with the monthly 24-hour average temperature ranging from 0.1 °C (32.2 °F) in January to 27.0 °C (80.6 °F) in July. The frost-free period lasts on average 220 days. Extremes since 1951 have ranged from −17.9 °C (0 °F) on 2 January 1955, 27 December 1971 and 1 February 1990 to 43.0 °C (109 °F) on 19 July 1966.

Rainfall is primarily produced by the monsoonal low during summer; in winter, when the vast Siberian High dominates due to radiative cooling from further north, the area receives little precipitation. During the summer season, the city is also often affected by tropical depressions, which bring additional amounts of rain. The annual precipitation is about 630 millimetres (25 in). With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 45 percent in February and March to 54 percent in May, the city receives 2,182 hours of sunshine per year, which is just under half the possible total.

Economy
Zhengzhou, along with Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing and Wuhan, is one of the most important cities in inland China. It is the second largest city in central China, after Wuhan. It is the economic center of the province and the surrounding areas such as southeastern Shanxi and southwestern Shandong. Due to its strategic location in one of the most populous areas in the world (nearly 100 million people in Henan alone) and in China's railway, road and aviation transport networks, Zhengzhou is increasingly attracting domestic and international investment as well as migrants from other areas, transforming the city into one of the largest economic centers in China. In 2015, total GDP of Zhengzhou was ￥ 745 billion, ranked as 18th city in China; while the GDP per capita of Zhengzhou was ￥ 78003.73 (about US$12,500), ranked as 47th city in China.

Transport
Zhengzhou, where the Longhai Railway (Lianyungang, Jiangsu–Lanzhou, Gansu) meets the Beijing–Guangzhou Railway, is a major national railway hub. It is located on the Shijiazhuang–Wuhan High-Speed Railway and Xuzhou–Lanzhou High-Speed Railway and is easy to reach by high-speed train from Beijing (2.5 hours) Hong Kong (7 hours) and Xi'an (2 hours) and Shanghai (4 hours).

The high-speed railway network provides fast train service from the city to Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an and Wuhan at a speed of 350 km/h (220 mph). The new high-speed Zhengzhou East Railway Station is one of the largest in Asia.

The first project of Zhengzhou BRT System was opened in 2009 and has 70.3 km of busway. It consists of a circle line (B1) along the Second Ring Road, another corridor on the north and west sections of the Third Ring Road (B3), and a third corridor under the Longhai Elevated (B5). Zhengzhou is the home to Yutong one of the largest bus and coach producers in Asia, because of this all the buses include the BRT system are manufactured by Yutong.

The Zhengzhou Metro currently has 3 lines creating a 93.7 km (58 mi) long network. The first 2 lines were approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in Feb. 2009. The two projects started in 2009 and finished in 2013 and 2015 respectively. As referenced in the long term plan, there are another 4 lines pending approval, Line 3 and Line 4 is under construction since 2015 and will be in operation by 2020 and the construction of Line 5 and Line 6 will begin in 2020. These lines will allow the rapid transit network to serve both the urban and suburban districts of Zhengzhou.

Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport is 37 km (23 mi) southeast of the city centre. The airport was the headquarters for Henan Airlines and also a focus city of China Southern Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines. The throughput of Xinzheng International Airport in 2016 is over 20 million people. It is also one of the eight air hubs nominated by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

Air Asia and Everbright Group will be using the airport as their China LCC hub along with a brand new LCC terminal, an aviation training hub and MRO facilities to complement the expected growth .

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