Taicang
Coordinates: 31 ° 33 ' N , 121 ° 10' E
The city of Taicang ( Chinese 太仓市 , pinyin Taicang Shì ) is a county-level city in the prefecture-level city Suzhou in the province of Jiangsu in eastern China , some 48 kilometers northwest from the center of Shanghai area. It has an area of 642 km² and in 2008 already had 466,300 inhabitants with a rapidly growing trend.
The stone arch bridges of Taicang (Taicang shigong qiao 太仓 石 拱桥) from the time of the Mongol dynasty and the residence of Zhang Pu (Zhang Pu zhaidi 张 溥 宅第) from the time of the Ming dynasty have been on the list since 2006 Monuments of the People's Republic of China .
The city has received numerous national awards in its category (independent city), including a. for cleanliness, industrial settlement, as a green city and tourist center. It is also a focus of Sino-German cooperation, e.g. B. with the "German Industrial Park", in which some medium-sized German companies, such as Kern-Liebers , Waelzholz , the Schaeffler Group , Zollner Electronics , Coroplast , Technotrans , Anton Häring KG , Alzmetall and Lindner AG have their China branches operate. The Austrian company Alpla also has one of its branches in China in Taicang. Taicang has had a partnership with the city of Jülich in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017 .
The physicist Chien-Shiung Wu is buried here.
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- Info page (English).