Liuyang (simplified Chinese: 浏阳; traditional Chinese: 瀏陽; pinyin: Liúyáng) 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.

[3][4] 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.

As it was a revolutionary base area in the Chinese Communist Revolution, there are many red tourism attractions and former residences of famous figures.

According to historical relics discovered in Yong’an Middle School's construction site in 1991, in the Old Stone Age, there were people living in Liuyang.

In the eastern Han dynasty (in 209 AD), Liuyang was established as a county, and its government was located in Juling (now the northern Guandu).

In the Ming dynasty (in 1369 AD), Liuyang was degraded as a county, and its government was moved to Huaichuan again.

In the 26th reign year of the Republic of China (in 1937 AD), Liuyang belonged to the First District, Hunan Province Chief Inspector's Office.

In 1949, the First District, Hunan Province Chief Inspector's Office, was renamed as Changsha prefecture.

In September 1927 Mao Zedong assembled Left-Kuomintang troops here, in the town of Wenjiashi (文家市) on the Jiangxi border, for the Com-Intern-planned seizure of Changsha, the provincial capital, 100 km to the west.

The terrain of Liuyang is that north-east is higher than south-west, and landscape types change because of a lot of rivers.

Main cash crops are flue-cured tobacco, medicinal materials, vegetables, oil-seed camellias, flowers and plants.

Liuyang has been mining some natural resources, like sepiolite, chrysanthemum stone, coal and phosphorite.

Liuyang fireworks are protected as an original product and hold the honor of China's famous brand.

Main cash crops are flue-cured tobacco, vegetables, flowers and plants, and oil-seed camellias.

Production of fruits, corns, bamboo shoots, phyllostachys pubescens, and medicinal materials also has a certain scale.

Liuyang is one of the top 100 counties that have advantages in grain production, and it is a big city for raising pigs and black goats.

Since 1875, Liuyang fireworks have been exported to Japan, Korea, India, Iran, the UK, United States, Russia, etc.

Liuyang has invested more than one million dollars to buy lands in Brazil to build fireworks factories.

[16] Liuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone is a national biological industry base created on 10 January 1998, located in Dongyang Town.

Its pillar industry comprises biological pharmacy, Information technology and Health food.

The Liuyang area is abundant in mineral deposits such as coal, tungsten, sulphur, phosphorus, and barite.

There are four main special local products of Liuyang, glycinemax, grass cloth, chrysanthemum stone and fireworks.

Since Liuyang was established as a county in the Han dynasty, it is abundant in historical tourist resources.

There are 13 Changsha city cultural relics' protection units, like the Stone Frost Temple built in the Tang dynasty.

[20] The Provincial Highway S103, which heads west to Changsha and east to Liuyang, passing through the southwestern part of the city.

[20] The Provincial Highway S309, connecting downtown Liuyang to Paibu Town of Jiangxi province.

[20] The Provincial Highway S310 passes through the city's towns of Dayao, Chengtanjiang, Zhonghe and Wenjiashi, leading eastwards to Jiangxi province.