Shaoxing
| Shàoxīng Shì 绍兴 市 Shaoxing |
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 Street corner in Shaoxing |
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 0 ′ N , 120 ° 35 ′ E | ||
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| Basic data | |||
| Country | People's Republic of China | ||
| region | East china | ||
| province | Zhejiang | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-ZJ | ||
| status | District-free city | ||
| structure | 1 city district, 2 districts, 3 independent cities | ||
| surface | 8256 km² | ||
| Residents | 4,988,000 (2016) | ||
| density | 604.2 Ew. / km² | ||
| Post Code | 312000-312056 | ||
| Telephone code | (+86) 575 | ||
| Time zone | China Standard Time (CST) UTC +8 |
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| License Plate | 浙 D | ||
| Website | www.sx.gov.cn | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Zhihong Yu (俞志宏) | ||
Shaoxing ( Chinese 紹興 市 / 绍兴 市 , Pinyin Shàoxīng Shì , W.-G. Shao-hsing ) is a district-free city in the Chinese province of Zhejiang in the Ningshao plain , 65 kilometers away from the provincial capital Hangzhou .
The administrative area of Shaoxing has an area of 8,256 km² and approx. 4.99 million inhabitants (end of 2016). 1,725,726 people live in the actual urban settlement area of Shaoxing (2010 census). The average temperature is 16 ° C. In the Yuecheng district there is an old town with canals and bridges and winding streets.
Administrative structure
At the county level, Shaoxing is made up of three boroughs , one county and two independent cities. These are:
- Yuecheng district (越 城区), 338 km², 640,000 inhabitants, center, seat of the city government;
- District Keqiao (柯桥区, formerly Shaoxing County), 1177 square kilometers, 720,000 inhabitants, capital: Street district Keqiao (柯桥街道);
- Shangyu district (上虞 区, formerly Shangyu city), 1,427 km², 774,000 inhabitants, main town: Baiguan street district (百官 街道);
- District Xinchang (新昌县) 1,213 km², 430,000 inhabitants;
- Zhuji City (诸暨 市), 2,311 km², 1.06 million inhabitants;
- Shengzhou City (嵊 州市), 1,771 km², 730,000 inhabitants.
Famous people from Shaoxing and the surrounding area
- Xi Shi (西施), one of the four beauties (* around 506 BC)
- Wang Xizhi (王羲之), calligrapher (307–365)
- Wang Shouren (王守仁), philosopher, governor and general (1472–1529)
- Xu Wei (徐渭), painter, poet and playwright (1521–1593)
- Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培), educator, ethnologist , Esperantist and rector of Peking University (1868–1940)
- Qiu Jin (秋 谨), revolutionary, poet and feminist (1875–1907)
- Lu Xun (鲁迅), writer (1881–1936)
- Zhou Zuoren (周作人), translator, writer and a key figure in the May Fourth Movement (1885–1967)
- Chen Yi (陈毅), politician (1901–1972)
tourism
- Lu Xun's home 鲁迅 故居
- Baltic Sea (东湖), huge rocks, possibility of being driven in small row boats typical of Shaoxing
- Dayu mausoleum , the tomb of Yu the Great (大 禹陵), monumental palace complex of the founder of the legendary Xia dynasty
- Shen garden (沈 園)
- Lan Ting (蘭亭), orchid pavilion - gardens, exhibition of Chinese calligraphy, stone inscriptions by Wang Xizhi (Lanting Jixu; 蘭亭 集 序)
The largest shopping street is called Jiefang Lu (解放路).
Town twinning
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Lübeck , since 2003
Others
- The Shaoxing wine (紹興酒) is considered the best and berühmtester rice wine in China. It is used for drinking and cooking.
- According to a study by the American software company Symantec in March 2010, 21.3 percent of all Internet attacks worldwide came from Shaoxing.
Web links
Commons : Shaoxing - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website (English)
- 360 degree views of sights etc. (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Nature of Cyber Espionage; Most Malicious File Types Identified and Encrypted Spam from Rustock , Messagelabs Intelligence March 2010.