The gateway to Central Jiangsu, a garden city. Yangzhou City, which has historically been "the richest in the world", is located in the central part of Jiangsu Province, bordering Taizhou and Yancheng City to the east; Liuhe District of Nanjing City and Tianchang City of Anhui Province to the west; the Yangtze River to the south, across the river from Zhenjiang; and Huai'an to the north. The city is adjacent to the city; the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal running through the north and south and the Yangtze River intersect here. It has always been a water and land transportation hub. The total area of ??the north-south water transportation chokepoint is 6,634 square kilometers, of which the total urban area is 988.81 square kilometers. At the end of 2004, the total population was 4.5429 million.
Residence of the Municipal People's Government: Weiyang District.
Postal code: 225000.
Yangzhou currently governs three districts: Guangling, Weiyang, and Hanjiang, and four counties (cities): Baoying, Gaoyou, Jiangdu, and Yizheng. The city has a total area of ??6,638 square kilometers and a population of 4.67 million; of which the urban area is 973 square kilometers, the built-up area is 53 square kilometers, and the urban population is 1.28 million. Yangzhou is one of the first 24 historical and cultural cities in the country. It is one of the first batch of outstanding tourist cities in China, a national ecological construction demonstration city, a national urban informatization pilot city, a national advanced city in creating civilized cities, a national sanitary city and a national environmental protection model city. .
"Fireworks in Yangzhou in March", every year from mid-late April to mid-May in the Gregorian calendar, Yangzhou City holds the "Fireworks in March Tourism Festival". At this time, Yangzhou is covered with mist and rain, the viburnum is in full bloom, and the flowers are fragrant. It’s the golden season for travel. The "Two Min Moon Cultural Festival" held in Yangzhou from September 8th to October 8th every year is the best place for you to enjoy the moon. The main activities include garden tours to enjoy the moon, Emperor Qianlong's water cruise, canal night tours, food festivals, etc.
Yangzhou is an open and emerging modern city. Yangzhou is a famous open city in history. In the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou was the largest city in the southeast region and one of the four major ports for foreign economic and cultural exchanges. At that time, there were more than 10,000 foreign businessmen in Yangzhou. The eminent monk Jianzhen made six eastward journeys to Japan. Choi Zhiyuan of South Korea, Puhardin of Arabia, Marco Polo of Italy, etc. have all left their footprints. In 1988, Yangzhou was approved to open to the outside world and has now become sister cities or friendly cooperative cities with 9 cities in 7 countries. Yangzhou's foreign economic cooperation continues to strengthen. It has joint ventures with a number of large companies including Mercedes-Benz of Germany, Colgate of the United States, Pirelli of Italy, Texas Instruments of the United States, Philips of the Netherlands and other Fortune 500 companies. There are six pillar industries: , fine chemicals, chemical fiber and textile fabrics, and food, and three emerging industries: electronic information, new materials, and bioengineering.
Origin of the name
Yangzhou, sometimes called Yangzhou in ancient times (note: the word Yang in the Han Dynasty stele was changed from "wood" and "hand" by later generations. Wang Niansun has details According to research), the name of Yangzhou was first seen in "Shangshu Yu Gong": "Huaihaiwei Yangzhou". This is a broad geographical concept in the minds of the ancients, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces in the vast area north of the Huai River, the Yellow Sea, and the Yangtze River. According to Du You's "Tongdian" of the Tang Dynasty, in the ancient Yangzhou area, there were thirty-nine prefectures and one hundred and ninety-six counties in the Tang Dynasty. Although this Yangzhou includes today's Yangzhou area, it cannot be confused with today's Yangzhou.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there were thirteen governor's departments across the country, including the Yangzhou governor's department. The jurisdiction of this governor's department is equivalent to today's Huai River in Anhui and the south of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu and the three provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian; Yingshan, Huangmei and Guangji in Hubei; Gushi and Licheng in Henan and other places. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the administrative seat was Liyang (now Hexian County, Anhui Province), and in the last years it was moved to Shouchun (now Shouxian County, Anhui Province) and Hefei (now northwest of Hefei City, Anhui Province). During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei and Wu each established Yangzhou. Wei's governance was located in Shouchun, and Wu's governance was located in Jianye (today's Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province). After the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu, the administrative office was still in Jianye (it was once renamed Jianye, and later renamed Jiankang).
Today's Yangzhou area was called "Han" in the Spring and Autumn Period (Han was one of the Fang Kingdoms of the Zhou Dynasty and was later destroyed by Wu), "Guangling", "Jiangdu", etc. in the Qin and Han Dynasties. In the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, "Southern Yanzhou" was established, and in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was called "Wuzhou". Han Yangzhou includes Jiangnan in Jiangsu, south of the Huaihe River in Anhui, and the three provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei and Wu each had Yangzhou, Wu Yangzhou governed Jianye, and Wei Yangzhou governed Shouchun. In the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty, Wuzhou was changed to Yangzhou, but the general administration office was still located in Danyang (today's Nanjing). In the eighth year of Wude (625), Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, the Yangzhou administrative seat was moved from Danyang to the north of the Yangtze River. From then on, Guangling enjoyed the proper name of Yangzhou.
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