Jianli, a county-level city directly under the central government of Hubei Province, is hosted by Jingzhou City and located in the south-central part of Hubei Province, at the southern end of Jianghan Plain and north of Dongting Lake. It is bordered by the Yangtze River in the south, Xiangshui in the north, honghu city in the east, jiangling county and Shishou in the west, and Huarong County, Linxiang City and Yueyang County in Yueyang City, Hunan Province across the river in the south.

1April, 949, Jianli County was liberated, belonging to Mianyang area.

1949 In May, Jianli County People's Democratic Government was established. The county government was stationed in Zhoulaozui and moved to Rongcheng in July.

1950 was changed to Jianli county people's government in March, which was originally in Mianyang area.

1950, Bashan, Sanhe, Guangshan, No.5 and Jiandaotang in Jianli County were part of the Hongkou directly under Jia, and Buffon, Luxiwan and Baoan were placed in Yueyang, Hunan. The parts of Fuxing, Sanyi, Shihe, Qiujiang, Ke Cheng, Zhongzhou and Xiongjiahuan in Yueyang County, Hunan Province, as well as the permanent, new and solid dikes were placed under Jianli, Hubei Province.

195 1 February, changed to Jingzhou area.

1994 10 month, merged with Jingsha and belonged to Jingsha.

1996 65438+ In February, Jingsha City was renamed Jingzhou City, and later it was subordinate to Jingzhou City.

On June 12, 2020, with the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Civil Affairs approved the cancellation of Jianli County, Hubei Province, and established Jianli City at the county level, with the administrative area of Jianli County as the administrative area of Jianli City, and the People's Government of Jianli City was located in Jingtai Road, Rongcheng Town 1. Jianli City is directly under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province and is managed by Jingzhou City.

On August 8, 2020, Jianli held a ceremony to withdraw the county and set up a city listing, and announced the official establishment of Jianli City.

Jianli has Neolithic relics such as Daxi culture and Longshan culture, and is one of the important birthplaces of Chu culture. There are two famous historical and cultural towns in China, Zhoulaozui Town and Zhenzhen Town, and there are a number of national and provincial intangible cultural heritages such as "Dong" and "Legend of Perron". It is located in the cross radiation area of Wuhan city circle and Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan city group, with Suiyue Expressway running through the north and south, Jingyue Yangtze River Bridge connecting Hunan and Hubei provinces, and Jiangbei Expressway running through the east and west; It has many tourism resources, such as the west bank of Honghu Lake, Donggangzi Wetland, Chinese milk vetch flower sea, 10,000 mu of Taolin Hehai, Yanglinshan religious culture and so on.