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Yibin (region=CN-SC-15; Sichuanese Pinyin: ȵi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation: ) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, China, located at the junction of the Min and . Its population was 4,588,804 inhabitants, according to the 2020 census, of whom 2,158,312 lived in the built-up area comprising three urban districts.
The city is located at the confluence of the Min and Yangtze Rivers. Above Yibin, the Yangtze is also known as the Jinsha River. Below Yibin, the Yangtze is known in Chinese as the Chang Jiang or "Long River."
As with the rest of the Sichuan Basin, Yibin has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa) with high humidity year-round; winters are short and mild while summers are long, hot, and humid. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July and August; the annual mean is . Despite its location in the Yangtze River valley, it is still cooler than Chongqing, located further downstream, in its warmest months. Frost is uncommon and the frost-free period lasts 347 days. Rainfall is common year-round but is the greatest in July and August, with very little of it in the cooler months. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 10% in December and January to 42% in August, the city receives only 1,018 hours of bright sunshine annually; Yibin has one of the lowest annual sunshine totals nationally, lower than even nearby Chengdu and Chongqing. Spring (March–April) tends to be sunnier and warmer in the day than autumn (October–November). Extremes in Yibin since 1951 have ranged from on January 3, 1962 to on August 25, 2022.
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| Cuiping District | 翠屏区 | Cuìpíng Qū | 836,383 | 1,123 | 745 |
| Nanxi District | 南溪区 | Nánxī Qū | 335,805 | 704 | 477 |
| Xuzhou District | 叙州区 | Xùzhōu Qū | 813,057 | 3,034 | 268 |
| Jiang'an County | 江安县 | Jiāng'ān Xiàn | 399,829 | 910 | 439 |
| Changning County | 长宁县 | Chángníng Xiàn | 340,016 | 975 | 349 |
| Gao County | 高县 | Gāo Xiàn | 411,118 | 1,323 | 310 |
| Junlian County | 筠连县 | Jūnlián Xiàn | 329,056 | 1,254 | 262 |
| Gong County | 珙县 | Gǒng Xiàn | 379,798 | 1,150 | 330 |
| Xingwen County | 兴文县 | Xīngwén Xiàn | 377,162 | 1,373 | 275 |
| Pingshan County | 屏山县 | Píngshān Xiàn | 249,777 | 1,437 | 174 |
The largest employer in Yibin is Wuliangye Yibin, a company best known for Wuliangye, a brand of sorghum-based distilled spirits known as baijiu. The Wuliangye Group grew from a small company employing just 300 people in 1977 into a large company employing over 20,000 on a seven-square-kilometer plant. According to an August 2005 article in a securities weekly, the Wuliangye Group is 72% state-owned and provides 70% of the revenues of Yibin City, a major regional center at the head of the Yangtze in southeastern Sichuan. In 2004 6,225 retired military worked for the company, out of a total work force of over 20,000. A third of top management positions are held by retired members of the military. "An Army of Production Out of Uniform: Retired Soldiers at Wuliangye", PLA Daily July 29, 2004 Unsuccessful efforts to diversify its business, poor transparency and a murky ownership pictures are among the company's problems today.
Yibin has also built a university town
1. Sichuan University of Science and Technology, Yibin Campus
2. Xihua University, Yibin Campus
3. Chengdu University of Technology, Yibin Campus
4. Sichuan University, Yibin Campus
Yibin has three and ten .
Yibin Wuliangye Airport offers flights to Beijing, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Hangzhou, Kunming, Lhasa, Sanya, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xi'an, and Yichang.
Yibin opened the world's second Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit/"trackless tram" system in December 2019.
| Line T1 | Yibin ART
China's New ART T1 Train Runs On Virtual Painted Tracks | Yibin | 17 | 2019-12-05 |
Grape Well Cold Cake（ 葡萄井凉糕） Gaoxian Hotpot（ 高县土火锅）Nanxi Dried Tofu（ 南溪豆腐干） Hongqiao Pig Cake（ 红桥猪儿粑）
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