Because there are rivers in the territory that divide the Han River into the Yangtze River, it is named Qianjiang with the meaning of "the Han River is submerged".
1May, 988, the county was withdrawn and the city was established.
1994 10 is listed as a municipality directly under the central government of Hubei province.
Qianjiang is a place where talented people come forth in large numbers.
According to historical records, from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were 63 Jinshi in Qianjiang, including 265 Juren and 399 Gong.
In modern times, many outstanding figures have emerged:
Fu Cixiang, an important member of the "Xingzhonghui" and a martyr of the Gengzi Uprising; Liu Jing 'an, Director-General of Japanese Bulletin and Pioneer of the Revolution of 1911: Li Shucheng, the founding father of the Republic of China and the first Minister of Agriculture of People's Republic of China (PRC); Li, one of the founders of China * * *, is a representative of * * * (Li Shucheng and Li are brothers, and * * * is held in their Shanghai apartment); Qian Ying, a proletarian revolutionary and the first Minister of Supervision of the State Council; Cao Yu, a literary master and world-renowned playwright; Gan, local chronicler and bibliophile; And physicist Qi Kaizhi, historian Zhou Chunyuan, musician Du Ming Xin, etc.
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