Nantong
| Nántōng Shì 南通 市 Nantong |
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 Nantong city center |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 1 ′ N , 120 ° 51 ′ E | ||
 Location of Nantongs in Jiangsu |
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| Basic data | |||
| Country | People's Republic of China | ||
| region | East china | ||
| province | Jiangsu | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-JS | ||
| status | district-free city | ||
| structure | 3 city districts, 4 independent cities, 1 district | ||
| height | 2 m | ||
| surface | 1692 km² | ||
| Metropolitan area | 8544 km² | ||
| Residents | 1,994,708 (2010) | ||
| Metropolitan area | 7,282,850 (2010) | ||
| density | 1,178.9 Ew. / km² | ||
| Metropolitan area | 852.4 Ew. / km² | ||
| Post Code | 226000 | ||
| Telephone code | +86 (0) 513 | ||
| Time zone | UTC + 8 | ||
| Website | www.nantong.gov.cn | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Zhang Guohua (张国华) | ||
Nantong ( Chinese 南通 市 , Pinyin Nántōng Shì ) is a district-free city in the Chinese province of Jiangsu at the mouth of the Yangtze River . It is an important center for the textile and food industries. Nantong has an area of 8544 km² and about 7,737,900 inhabitants. (Status: end of 2004)
Administrative structure
At the county level, Nantong is made up of three urban districts, four independent cities and one district. These are:
- Chongchuan District ( 崇川 区 ), 215 km², 670,000 inhabitants;
- Gangzha District ( 港闸 区 ), 134 km², 180,000 inhabitants;
- District Tongzhou ( 通州区 ) 1,343 square kilometers, 1.27 million inhabitants;
- City of Haimen ( 海门市 ), 1,148 km², 1.02 million inhabitants;
- Qidong City ( 启东 市 ), 1,191 km², 1.13 million inhabitants;
- Rugao City ( 如皋 市 ), 1,531 km², 1.43 million inhabitants;
- City of Hai'an ( 海安 市 ), 1,110 km², 960,000 inhabitants, main town: Hai'an municipality ( 海安 镇 );
- Rudong district ( 如东县 ), 1,872 km², 1.08 million inhabitants, main town: Juegang municipality ( 掘 港镇 ).
economy
In Nantong u. a. the following branches of industry are located:
- Cotton processing
- Food industry
- Agricultural area (one of the most densely populated agricultural areas on earth)
- CD-R / DVD-R blank production
- Electronics industry (including the largest manufacturer of electrolytic capacitors in China)
Attractions
The Nantong Museum is located in Nantong on a peninsula in the Yangtze River. It opened in 1905 as the first modern museum in China. The original museum building is built in the American colonial style. For the 100th anniversary in 2005, an extension by the Chinese architect Wu Liangyong was opened. In Nantong, at No. 4 Wenfeng Street, there is also the first textile museum in China, which opened in October 1985. The original museum building dates from 1906. To mark its twentieth anniversary, an extension by the Chinese architect Wu Liangyong was completed in 2004. The city was named an ecological model city.
Buildings
Town twinning
Nantong has city partnerships with the following cities:
| city | country | since |
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| Swansea |
 United Kingdom
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1987 |
| Toyohashi |
 Japan
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1987 |
| Izumi |
Japan
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1993 |
| Jersey City |
 United States
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1996 |
| Troisdorf |
 Germany
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1997 |
| Gimje |
 South Korea
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1997 |
| Civitavecchia |
 Italy
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1999 |
| Rimouski |
 Canada
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2003 |
| Sao José do Rio Preto |
 Brazil
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2010 |
| Oshakati |
 Namibia
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January 1, 2015 |
sons and daughters of the town
- Yi Tso-lin (1897–1945), linguist, educator and philanthropist
- Chen Bingde (* 1941), Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army (since 2007)
- Liu Yandong (* 1945), communist politician
- Xu Lei (* 1963), visual artist
- Zhao Jianhua (born 1965), badminton player
- Lin Li (* 1970), swimmer
- Ge Fei (* 1975), badminton player
- Li Ju (* 1976), table tennis player
- Zhao Tingting (* 1982), badminton player
- Zhong Man (* 1983), fencer and Olympic champion
- Chen Qi (* 1984), table tennis player
- Zhang Xi (* 1985), beach volleyball player
- Cheng Shu (* 1987), badminton player
- Ma Jin (* 1988), badminton player
- Yao Lei (* 1990), Singaporean badminton player
- Shi Yuqi (* 1996), badminton player
Web links
- Official Website (Chinese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 走进 江苏 行政 区划. In: www.jiangsu.gov.cn.江苏 省政府 门户 网站, May 18, 2018, accessed on August 24, 2018 (Chinese).
- ↑ Hileni Nembwaya: Oshakati signs twinning agreement with Chinese city ( Memento of March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Namibian , January 5, 2015; accessed January 1, 2020.