Xingyang has a long history and splendid culture. Xingyang is the birthplace of surnames such as Zheng and Pan, and is also the location of the "Chu River and Han Realm" in chess. Xingyang has a dangerous geographical location and is known as "the belt between two capitals and the throat of three Qin". It is a famous military town in ancient China, and many famous battles in history have taken place here. For example, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu divided the world by the gap between Xingyang. During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei fought against Lu Bu in front of Hulao Pass in Xingyang. Military strategists of all dynasties such as Zhang Han, Wu Guang, Li Shimin, Dou Jiande and Li Zicheng fought Perform war drama in Xingyang. During the Han Dynasty, Xingyang was once a "famous capital in the world" on the same level as Chang'an and Luoyang.
The Xingyang County Iron Smelting Workshop was one of the earliest iron smelting workshops in the world, and its iron smelting blast furnace was the largest in the world at that time. Xingyang is the hometown of the famous poet Li Shangyin and the famous thinker Shen Buhai; the famous poet Liu Yuxi, known as the "Poetry Hero", also rested in Xingyang after his death. A number of famous poets and writers such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan once left their footprints and immortal poems in Xingyang. Xingyang was awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Poetry" by the Chinese Poetry Society.
Xingyang has obvious location advantages, strong economic strength and good development prospects. The Longhai Railway, National Highway 310, and the Zhengzhou-Xi'an Passenger Line pass through Xingyang; the West-East Gas Transmission Project and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project meet in Xingyang; Xingyang is the closest county-level city to the provincial capital Zhengzhou, and is also one of the small and medium-sized cities with the greatest development potential in China in the future. one. Xingyang is one of the top 100 county-level cities in terms of economy, a national health city, and one of the top 100 county-level cities in science and technology. Xingyang is the largest construction machinery, textile machinery and white corundum production base in the country. Shaolin Bus of Xingyang is the fourth largest bus manufacturer in China. Its products have won the "Chinese Famous Brand" and are exported to more than 30 countries and regions around the world.