Zhongshan

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中山 市
Zhongshan
Zhongshan (China)
Zhongshan
Zhongshan
Coordinates 22 ° 32 '  N , 113 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 22 ° 32 '  N , 113 ° 21'  E
Basic data
Country People's Republic of China

province

Guangdong
ISO 3166-2 CN-GD
surface 1800 km²
Residents 3,142,300
density 1,745.7  Ew. / km²
Location of Zhongshan in Guangdong
Location of Zhongshan in Guangdong

Zhongshan ( Chinese  中山 市 , Pinyin Zhōngshān Shì ) is a district-free city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong , on the western bank of the Pearl River Delta.

General data

With an area of ​​1,800 km² (0.96% of the area of ​​Guangdong), Zhongshan is the second smallest of the 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong. Zhongshan has 1.4 million inhabitants (1.34% of the population of Guangdong). The population density is around 778 people per km². Zhongshan is the place of origin of around 700,000 overseas Chinese and residents of Hong Kong and Macao .

history

In the Tang Dynasty , the area of ​​today's Zhongshan, which was then called Xiangshan (香山), belonged to what was then Dongguan County (东莞 县). In 1152, during the Song Dynasty , it was separated and made into a separate Xiangshan (香山 县) county. In 1866 the Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman Sun Yat-sen (better known in China under the name Sun Zhongshan) was born in what was then the village of Cuiheng (翠亨村) in what is now Nanlang (南朗 镇). After his death in 1925, the county was renamed Zhongshan County (中山 县) in his honor. In 1961, Zhuhai County (珠海 县) was separated from Zhongshan. In the following years he also had to give up further areas to the surrounding districts, so that in 1979 he lost approx. 43% of his original area. In 1983, Zhongshan County was converted into an independent city, and in January 1988 it was declared an independent city. Sun Zhongshan's house is now a major tourist attraction in the city and is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China .

  • City silhouette of Zhongshan, 2011

  • Lift bridge on Fuhua Street, Zhongshan

  • Pearl River near Zhongshan

  • TongXin Music School

  • Sun Yat-sen's statue is a popular tourist destination in Zhongshan

Administrative structure

Administrative division of Zongshan

Although Zhongshan is a district-free city, it has not been divided into further administrative units at the county level (city districts, counties, urban districts). In Zhongshan, the county and district levels form a unit that is politically and administratively settled at the district level. At the community level, Zhongshan consists of six street districts and 18 large parishes . These are:

geography

Zhongshan's location in the Pearl River Delta

Zhongshan is located in the Pearl River Delta, on the western bank of the river's confluence with the South China Sea. It borders Guangzhou and Foshan prefectures in the north, Jiangmen in the west, and Zhuhai in the south. The climate in Zhongshan is subtropical and oceanic. The average temperatures are 13.3 ° C in January and 28.4 ° C in July. The annual rainfall per square meter is 1748.3 mm.

Others

Town twinning

Movie

  • Amazing Gardens - The Zhongshan Shipyard Park in China. (OT: Étonnants jardins. Le jardin Zhongshan, Chine. ) Documentary, France, 2017, 26:09 min., Script and director: Stéphane Carrel, production: arte France, Cinétévé, series: Amazing gardens (OT: Étonnants jardins ), First broadcast: September 3, 2017 at arte, table of contents from ARD , online video , etc. a. with the landscape architect Dr. Yu Kongjian.


  • Zhongshan Old Shipyard

  • Zhongshan Shipyard Park

  • Aquatic plants in flood basins

  • Hedge planting

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome Speech. In: General Office of Zhongshan Municipal Government , October 20, 2008, (English).
  2. ↑ Message and picture. In: southcn.com , October 15, 2005, (Chinese).