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Zhijiang (Chinese: 枝江; pinyin: Zhījiāng) is a county-level city of Yichang City, in the west of Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Until the 1990s Zhijiang was a county. It is located on the left (northern) shore of the Yangtze River, downstream from Yichang center city.
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Map of Zhijiang, Yichang, Hubei, China
There was another Zhijiang across the river, a city which now goes by a different name (see Zhicheng).
Climate
Zhijiang has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with hot, rainy summers and cool winters. Rainfall occurs throughout the year but is significantly heavier between April and August.
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Lü Banglie
In October 2005, Zhijiang was in the news because one of the delegates to its (county-level) People's Congress, Lu Banglie (吕邦列), a village-rights activist, was savagely beaten on October 8, 2005 in the village of Taishi (太石), in Yuwotou town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, by unknown persons. The beating was witnessed by Benjamin Joffe-Walt, correspondent for The Guardian newspaper of the UK, who was himself threatened and believed Lü had been killed.
Since 2004, Lü has been the popularly elected head of Baoyuesi village, on Bailizhou 百里洲(which is an island in the Yangtze River and the only town in Zhijiang枝江 not on the river's left bank, with no road connection between Bailizhou and the city's other towns). He is the first elected village head in the history of the China.
The beating may have been intended to prevent a similar popular election from taking place in Taishi.