In central China,there is an area of rugged mountains along the western border but dominated by a lake-studded plain that is traversed by the Yangtze and Han rivers,HuBei province,187,500 sq km in area and its population is about 60,280,000(2000).Summer rice and winter wheat are the main crops, with other crops as soybeans, tea,cotton and so on.Wuhan is its capital,known as very hot weather in summer as well as manufactures.East Lake,Tortoise Hill , Xiang Pagoda and the Mao Zedong Peasant Movement Institute and monuments commemorating the Republican Revolution of 1911 are interesting.Shiyan is one of the largest automobile production centers in China.Yichang ,the head of navigation on the middle Yangtze River, is an important transshipment point for traffic to and from adjacent SiChuan Province.