Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hubei was the heartland of the ancient State of Chu during the Eastern Zhou dynasty and the site of the 1911 Wuchang Uprising, which overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China. The province has been a strategic political and military crossroads for over three thousand years.
The first identified case of COVID-19 was recorded in Wuhan, Hubei's provincial capital, on the 1st of December 2019. Authorities locked down fifteen cities across the province, directly affecting fifty-seven million people. The lockdown on most cities was lifted after more than eight weeks.
The Three Gorges Dam is located at Yichang in western Hubei on the Yangtze River. Operational since 2012, it produces an average annual power output of 95 terawatt-hours of hydroelectricity. Its construction required resettling millions of people from western Hubei.
Wuhan has 1.3 million college students enrolled across its 89 universities, giving it the largest college student population of any city on earth. Institutions such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University are among the most prominent in China.
People from Hubei are nicknamed "Nine-headed Birds" by other Chinese. The term refers to a mythological creature said to be very aggressive and hard to kill, and the saying goes: "In the sky live nine-headed birds. On the earth live Hubei people."
Mount Wudang is located in the northwest of Hubei province. Its building complex was originally constructed early in the Ming dynasty and has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994.