Jiaxing
Jiaxing ( 嘉興 市 / 嘉兴 市 , Jiāxīng Shì ) is a district-free city in the north of the Chinese province of Zhejiang . Your administrative area has an area of 3,915 km² and 4,614,000 inhabitants (end of 2016). 762,643 people live in the actual urban settlement area of Jiaxing (2010 census). It is Wu spoken. Jiaxing is one of the main silk industry cities in the People's Republic of China . In addition, the textile industry is particularly well represented in Jiaxing.
Administrative structure
At the county level, Jiaxing is made up of two city districts, two districts and three independent cities. These are:
- District Nanhu (南湖区), km² 426, 460,000;
- Xiuzhou District (秀洲 区), 542 km², 340,000 inhabitants;
- District Jiashan (嘉善县), km² 504, 380,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Weitang (魏塘镇);
- Circuit Haiyan (海盐县) square kilometers 503, 360,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Wuyuan (武原镇);
- Pinghu City (平湖 市), 536 km², 480,000 inhabitants;
- City of Haining (海宁 市), 681 km², 640,000 inhabitants;
- City of Tongxiang (桐乡 市), 723 km², 660,000 inhabitants.
Demographics
In the 2000 census, Jiaxing had 3,582,996 residents. Of these, 99.57% were Han Chinese , 0.13% Tujia , 0.09% Miao , 0.06% Hui , 0.04% Zhuang , 0.03% Yi , 0.02% Bouyei , 0.01% Dong , 0.01% Manju, and 0.04% Other People of China.
Attractions
Nan Hu Lake is located in Jiaxing . The Chinese Communist Party was founded on a boat on the Nan Hu in 1921. Since then, the CCP has considered Nan Hu to be the birthplace of the Chinese Revolution. The Red Boat from Nan Hu is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-11, 2001) as part of the site of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China .
Personalities
- Qian Baocong (1892–1974), mathematician
- Zhang Leping (1910-1992), cartoonist
- Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004), mathematician
Web links
- Die ZEIT : The City of Post Marxists , 5/2005, January 27, 2005
Coordinates: 30 ° 46 ' N , 120 ° 45' E