与长沙漫长的历史相比,长株潭作为一个整体出现只是一个微不足道的瞬间。建国后,由于四通八达的铁路在株洲、湘潭一带交汇,从而彻底改变了两座小镇的命运。“一五”和“二五”期间,大量工业项目沿着铁路布局在株洲和湘潭。到了1983年,株洲已经成为一个拥有32万城市人口、18亿元工业产值的中等城市。也就是在这个时候,长株潭三市形成了沿着湘江分布的“品”字形格局。 Compared with the long history of Changsha, the emergence of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan as a whole is only a trivial moment. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the fate of the two towns has completely changed as the railroad extending in all directions converges in Zhuzhou and Xiangtan. A large number of industrial projects along the railway layout in Zhuzhou and Xiangtan during the “five-year” and “twenty-five ” period. By 1983, Zhuzhou had become a medium-sized city with 320 million urban population and 1.8 billion yuan of industrial output. That is, at this time, the three cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan formed a pattern of “characters” distributed along the Xiangjiang River.