Changzhou

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Chángzhōu Shì
常州 市
Changzhou
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Clockwise from top - right:
Tianning Temple and Tianning Paode, Changzhou old town, Changzhou night view, city panorama from Tianning Pagoda, Changzhou Imperial Canal ,
left: Wenbi Pagoda at Taiping Monastery, Jing Lake in Nanshan Zhuhai
Changzhou (China)
Changzhou
Changzhou
Coordinates 31 ° 47 ′  N , 119 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 47 ′  N , 119 ° 58 ′  E
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Basic data
Country People's Republic of China
region East china
province Jiangsu
status district-free city
structure 5 city districts, 1 district-free city
surface 1864 km²
Metropolitan area 4385 km²
Residents 3,290,918 (2010)
Metropolitan area 4,591,972 (2010)
density 1,765.5  Ew. / km²
Metropolitan area 1,047.2  Ew. / km²
Post Code 213000
Telephone code +86 (0) 519
Time zone UTC + 8
Website www.changzhou.gov.cn
politics
mayor Fei Gaoyun
Changzhou
Changzhou

Changzhou ( Chinese  常州 , Pinyin Chángzhōu , W.-G. Ch'ang 2 -chou 1 , obsolete after Post Changchow ) is a district-free city in the Jiangsu Province of the People's Republic of China . Changzhou has an area of ​​4374 km² and around 4,591,972 inhabitants (2010).

Administrative structure

The city is made up of five districts and one urban district. These are:

  • District Zhonglou ( 钟楼区 , Zhonglou Qū )
  • Tianning District ( 天宁区 , Tiānníng Qū )
  • District Taipei County ( 新北区 , Taipei County Qū )
  • Wujin District ( 武进 区 , Wǔjìn Qū )
  • Jintan District ( 金 坛 区 , Jīntán Qū )
  • City of Liyang ( 溧阳 市 , Lìyáng Shì )

General

The history of Changzhou goes back over 2500 years. Today the city is a rapidly growing industrial city with the China Dinosaur Park as one of the tourist attractions.

Changzhou is located south of the Yangtze on the rail and highway connections from Shanghai to Nanjing . The airport is about 15 kilometers from the city center.

The city is cut through by the busy Kaiserkanal .

economy

Traditionally, Changzhou is famous for making combs. Today the city is a rapidly growing industrial city with a focus on the recycling of silicon and the production of ingots , wafers , solar cells and solar modules . MAN opened a plant here in November 2008, and the Taiwanese company Kymco has one of its production facilities for scooters here.

Buildings

Sports

In the city is the 38,000 seat Changzhou Olympic Sports Center .

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Changzhou  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. https://www.essen.de/mektiven/pressemeldung_922072.de.html
  3. Hong Shen. (No longer available online.) China Culture January 2008, archived from the original September 7, 2008 ; accessed on February 14, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.chinaculture.org
  4. ^ Liu Haisu: Artistic Rebel. China.org.cn, March 20, 2006, accessed February 14, 2009 .