Daye

Daye is a county-level city within the prefecture-level city of Huangshi, in eastern Hubei, China.

Before the adoption of the Hanyu Pinyin, the name of the city was often transcribed in English as Tayeh.

As it is usually the case with , Daye includes both an urban core and a fair amount of rural land in all directions, with smaller townships such as Dajipu . According to the Fifth Population Census of China , the entire county-level city of Daye had 813,600 residents, making for the population density of 558 people per square kilometer.

The city is served by the China National Highway 106 and a railway.

The Daye Lake south of Daye's urban core is surrounded by parks and fishing ponds, and is a popular place for recreation.

For a traveller who goes on G316 from Wuhan toward the south-east, Daye appears as a border between more urban and more rural parts of the province. Daye sits on the south-eastern border of the heavily industrialized Wuhan/Ezhou/Huangshi metropolitan area; south of it, the much more rural begins.

Economy

Daye is an industrial city, a center of mining and metallurgy; its name means 'Big Smeltery'. Among the major employers is Huangshi Daye Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

History

Daye County existed on and off for centuries; as recently as the WWII period, it included much of today's prefecture-level city of Huangshi. This means that pre-1949 references to a location in "Daye" or "Tayeh" may actually refer to anywhere within today's Huangshi.

Daye County was re-established on June 1, 1962, now on a rather smaller scale, as part of Huangshi City. On February 18, 1994 Daye was converted into a county-level city, still within the prefecture-level city of Huangshi.