Xinghua, Jiangsu

Xinghua

兴化市
Xinghua 兴化市
County-level city
	Sipai Tower (四牌楼; 四牌樓), the emblem of the Xinghua Ancient City (兴化古城; 興化古城)
	Xinghua Location in Jiangsu
	Coordinates: 32°55′48″N 119°49′48″E / 32.930°N 119.830°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangsu
Prefecture-level city	Taizhou
Area
• Total	2,394.96 km2 (924.70 sq mi)
Population
• Total	1,253,548
• Density	520/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	2257XX

Xinghua (simplified Chinese: 兴化; traditional Chinese: 興化; pinyin: Xīnghuà) is a county-level city under the administration of Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China. It is located in the central part of Jiangsu Province. It borders the prefecture-level cities of Yancheng to the north and east and Yangzhou to the west.

Xinghua is the abbreviation for "Xingsheng jiaohua (兴盛教化)" which means "prospering (the Confucian) teaching".^[4]

History

In 920, Wu of the Ten Kingdoms separated the northern part of then Hailing county to establish Xinghua county. The land which was used to boil the brine was called Zhaoyuanchang before that.

The county was downgraded as Zhaoyang township in 1135, but was restored in 1149.

In 1987, the county was turned into a city of Yangzhou.

Basically, the area was under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou until 1996, being reassign to Taizhou.

Notable people

Bi Feiyu, fiction writer
Fan Zhongyan, politician, was once magistrate in Xinghua^[5]
Hou Yifan, chess grandmaster, born in Xinghua
Kong Shangren, Qing dynasty dramatist and poet
Li Jitong (1897–1961), botanist and phytophysiologist^[6]
Zheng Banqiao, Qing dynasty painter

References

^ Google (2014-07-02). "Xinghua" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
^ Taizhou Statistical Yearbook 2012/《泰州统计年鉴2012》.Template:Zh icon Accessed 9 July 2014.
^ China 2010 Census County-by-county Statistics/《中国2010年人口普查分县资料》.Template:Zh icon Accessed 9 July 2014.
^ Overview of Jiangsu's cities and counties (江苏市县概况) (in Chinese). pp. 394–397. ISBN 978-7-55-373496-5.
^ Buckley Ebrey, Patricia (1993). Chinese Civilization a sourcebook. Simon and Schuster. p. 200.
^ 30 Years' Review of China's Science & Technology, 1949-1979 (World Scientific Publishing Co., 1981), p. 283.

External links

Template:Zh icon Official Local Government website
Template:En icon Template:Zh icon "Illustrated Album of Yangzhou Prefecture", from 1573-1620, has illustrations of Xinghua

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[1] Google (2014-07-02). "Xinghua" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2014-07-02.

[2] Taizhou Statistical Yearbook 2012/《泰州统计年鉴2012》.Template:Zh icon Accessed 9 July 2014.

[2010_permanent-3] China 2010 Census County-by-county Statistics/《中国2010年人口普查分县资料》.Template:Zh icon Accessed 9 July 2014.

[:0-4] Overview of Jiangsu's cities and counties (江苏市县概况) (in Chinese). pp. 394–397. ISBN 978-7-55-373496-5.

[5] Buckley Ebrey, Patricia (1993). Chinese Civilization a sourcebook. Simon and Schuster. p. 200.

[6] 30 Years' Review of China's Science & Technology, 1949-1979 (World Scientific Publishing Co., 1981), p. 283.

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