Zhangjiagang
Coordinates: 31 ° 52 ' N , 120 ° 33' E
The city of Zhangjiagang ( Chinese 张家港 市 , Pinyin Zhāngjiāgǎng Shì ) is a city in the east of the People's Republic of China . It belongs to the administrative area of the prefecture -level city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province and is located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River lower reaches. It has an area of 813 km² and has a population of 868,640 (2004). The main town is the large community of Yangshe (杨舍镇).
Administrative structure
At the community level, Zhangjiagang is made up of eight large communities .
history
Zhangjiagang is a relatively newly built city that developed from a village to a city in the course of the Chinese economic reforms in the mid-1980s. In 1994, the city received the second highest economic rating in China with an annual per capita income of $ 1,000. It is said that the rural population around Zhangjiagang is even more affluent.
In 1993, Zhangjiagang was named a unique model city in China. Brochures were distributed to households giving guidelines for correct behavior. These included ten points to avoid and six instructions for actions to be taken. The guidelines should lead to greater "civilized behavior". These new rules emphasized courtesy, mutual respect, and obedience. Due to strong enforcement of these rules, they are now so well obeyed that visitors to the city are more likely to praise the beauty and cleanliness of the city and the friendliness of its residents compared to other Chinese cities.
The government began promoting Zhangjiagang as the positive model of the future Chinese city based on the success of a “Learning Dazhai ” campaign. The aim is to achieve the goal of making China a country of many “small Singaporeans ”. This goal was issued especially under the Chinese President Jiang Zemin . The clean and friendly image of Zhangjiagang means that the city is visited by up to 300,000 tourists annually.
The former Dortmund steelworks Westfalenhütte and Phoenix-Ost were dismantled in 2002 and 2003 and rebuilt in the Zhangjiagang steelworks.
Sports
In the city is the 3750-seat Zhangjiagang Sports Center Gym .
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Seitz: China. A world power is returning, 2nd edition, Munich 2006, p. 338.
- ^ Website of the city of Dortmund (accessed on August 13, 2012) ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Info page - Chinese ( Memento from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )