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Jingmen is a prefecture-level city in central Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Jingmen is within an area where cotton and oil crops are planted. Located in the heart of Hubei Province, Jingmen can be the communication hub inside the province. It is 217 kilometers west of the provincial capital, Wuhan, 120 kilometers east of Yichang City. Bounded on its south and north are Jingzhou and Xiangfan. Although this area was inhabited as early as the Neolithic Age, it was established as an administrative unit in late Shang Dynasty (16th - 11th century BC). The name of Jingmen began in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) when the government established county to administrate this area.