Hunan city cluster to be green test bed

A cluster of three cities in Hunan Province has been marked as an experimental zone for energy saving and environmentally friendly programs.

The three neighboring cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan will form the zone in the home province of Mao Zedong, New China's founding father, said Hunan Governor Zhou Qiang yesterday.

Mao was born on December 26, 1893, in a village called Shaoshan in Xiangtan County, Hunan. He died on September 9, 1976.