Gongqingcheng

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Gongqingcheng's location in Jiujiang City
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The city of Gongqingcheng ( Chinese  共青 城市 , Pinyin Gòngqīngchéng Shì  - "City of Communist Youth") is a county-level city that belongs to the administrative area of ​​the prefecture -level city of Jiujiang in the southern Chinese province of Jiangxi . Gongqingcheng has an area of ​​193 km² and about 120,000 inhabitants. The city was re-established in November 2010.

geography

Gongqingcheng is located in the north of Jiangxi Province, at the foot of the Lu Shan and on the banks of the Poyang Hu , 23.8 km² of which belongs to the urban area. The city is only around 50 km away from Jiujiang city center and from Nanchang , the capital of Jiangxi.

Administrative structure

Gongqingcheng consists of a street district , two large parishes , and three parishes . In November 2010, the city was made up of several villages that had previously belonged to three different districts of Jiujiang . They are:

  • from the district of De'an (德安县):
  • from Yongxiu County (永 修 县):
    • Greater community Jiangyi (江益镇);
    • the villages of Pingtang (坪 塘村) and Yanfang (燕 坊村) of the large municipality of Yanfang (燕 坊镇);
  • from the district of Xingzi (星子 县):

history

Originally, today's urban area was an area of ​​shallows and sandbanks on the edge of the Poyang Hu. On October 18, 1955, 98 Shanghai youths responded to the appeal of the CCP Central Committee and moved to North Jiangxi, where they began draining and reclaiming the soil. Many generations of young people, organized by the KJVC, followed and gradually built a new city here.

After the State Council of the People's Republic of China approved the establishment of the independent city in 2010, the Jiangxi provincial government published the "Resolution to Establish Gongqingcheng City" in November 2010.

name of the city

Gongqingcheng literally means "City of Communist Youth". The provincial government's resolution states that Gongqingcheng is the only place in all of China that bears the name of the KJVC . Thus, one can speak of a parallel to the numerous cities called Komsomolsk that existed in the Soviet Union and are still there today in their successor states.

Place names of this type are very rare in China. In fact, there is no other place in China named after the Communist Party or any of its mass organizations or subdivisions. Renaming of places according to personal names was already prohibited by party resolution in the early 1950s. There is neither a Karl Marx nor a Mao Zedong city in China. The only exception is Zhongshan , which was named after the Chinese revolutionary and founder of the Republic Sun Zhongshan as early as 1925 . The only “political” place names in China that are particularly common at the municipal level refer to slogans, symbols or dates of events, such as B. Forward , Construction , Red Star , Red Banner , First August (foundation day of the VBA ), First May , etc.

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Coordinates: 29 ° 19 ′  N , 115 ° 58 ′  E