[6] Portions of present-day Qianjiang were ruled by the Sui dynasty as part of Mianyang Commandery [zh].

[5] In 1293, during the Yuan dynasty, local flooding prompted officials to move the county center to present-day Yuanlin Subdistrict [zh].

[6] The Japanese primarily used prominent local Chinese to run the "puppet" government, notably many members of the Zhang family.

[citation needed] From the spring of 1942 to the autumn of 1945, the area hosted a number of regional resistance governments.

[citation needed] As the national economic reform took force beginning in the late 1970s many of these state-run businesses went under.

[citation needed] During the period from 1959 to 1962, the largest "Cadre Camp" in China, or in the world as people at that time liked to call it, was established in Qianjiang.

[citation needed] The camp was established due to fears of a potential war between the Soviet Union and China following the Sino-Soviet split.

[citation needed] As a result of these fears, the Chinese government dispersed people and resources throughout the country.

[citation needed] Many young college graduates were sent to local Cadre Camps to train and entrench.

[citation needed] The young cadres in Qianjiang worked to improve the agricultural situation, such as draining hundreds of acres of a local lake to be used as farmland.

[citation needed] However, around the year of 1960, Qianjiang didn't escape the fate of most Chinese towns and was swept by an extended famine that was grossly caused by the political destruction of the fundamental aspects of the economy (production, supply-chain, and ownership).

[citation needed] Prior to the modern days, Qianjiang demonstrated traditional, agriculture-based, Chinese ethos.

[5] Qianjiang is located in south-central Hubei province in the Jianghan Plain, spanning an area of 2,004 square kilometres (774 sq mi).

[4] The Xiangyue Highway (Chinese: 襄岳公路) from Xiangyang to Yueyang passes through Qianjing from south to north.