Jinhua

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Location of Jinhuas (yellow) in Zhejiang

Jinhua ( Chinese  金华 市 , Pinyin Jīnhuá Shì ) is a district-free city in the center of the south- east Chinese province of Zhejiang . The economic metropolis is located about 300 kilometers south of Shanghai in a valley. Jinhua has about 5.52 million inhabitants on an area of ​​10,900 km². 710,597 people live in the actual urban settlement area of ​​Jinhua (2010 census). The cities of Yiwu, Dongyang and Yongkang are among the 100 economically strongest county towns among the 374 county towns in China.

Administrative structure

The district-free city of Jinhua consists of two districts , four district-free cities and three districts. These are:

  • Wucheng District (婺 城区) Wùchéng Qū ;
  • Jindong District (金东区) Jīndōng Qū ;
  • City of Lanxi (兰溪 市) Lánxī Shì ;
  • City of Yongkang (永康市) Yǒngkāng Shì ;
  • City of Yiwu (义乌 市) Yìwū Shì ;
  • Dongyang City (东阳 市) Dōngyáng Shì ;
  • Wuyi County (武义 县) Wǔyì Xiàn ;
  • Circuit pujiang (浦江县) Pǔjiāng Xiàn ;
  • District Pan'an (磐安县) Pan'an Xiàn .

Twin cities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Ai Qing (1910–1996), poet and painter, father of Ai Weiwei
  • Ai Xuan (born 1947), painter
  • Kongjian Yu (* 1963), landscape architect and university professor
  • Xu Yuhua (* 1976), chess player and former world chess champion

Attractions

The official residence of Prince Shi ( Li Shixian李世贤) of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace ( Taiping tianguo ) (Taiping tianguo Shiwang fu 太平天国 侍 王府), the main hall of the Tianning Temple (Tianning si dadian 天宁寺 大殿), the place of Tiedian - The ceramic kiln and the Buddhist stone pillar of the Falong Temple (Falong si jingchuang 法 隆 寺 经幢) are on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sister city : Jinhua , at www.dueren.de, accessed on February 16, 2013
  2. twinning on hollabrunn.gv.at, accessed on June 17, 2018

Coordinates: 29 ° 18 '  N , 120 ° 4'  E