, 5 counties and two county-level cities.
City trees: holly, ginkgo City flowers: crape myrtle, peony Latitude and longitude: 32.85°~34.2° north latitude, 119.57°~120.45° east longitude Note: The symbols of Yancheng are the red-crowned crane (crane) and the elk (sacred deer) Yancheng, central Jiangsu Province
A newly emerging city on the coast, across the sea from Japan, has a unique geographical location where rare animals and people live harmoniously. It is an important part of the country's coastal development strategy.
Yancheng was established as a city relatively late, with strong private and county economic strength, rich industrial structure, and beautiful ecology.
The majority of the population in Yancheng are descendants of immigrants from the south of the Yangtze River in the past dynasties, so the traditional culture and the people's psychological state belong to the traditional Jiangnan culture.
Yanfu is home to countless outstanding people and celebrities, including Lu Xiufu, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the hometown of Shi Naian, the author of "Water Margin".
Geographical location: The symbol of Yancheng - Xianhe Yancheng City is located in the east-central region of Jiangsu Province, bordering the Yellow Sea to the east, Nantong City to the south, Yangzhou City and Taizhou City to the west and southwest, Huaiyin City to the north and northwest, and separated by Da Da in the northeast.
The Huaihe River faces Guanhe and Lianyungang City.
With a total area of ??14,983 square kilometers (within the old sea wall), it is the largest prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province.
The urban area is 210 square kilometers; the total population is 7.9828 million (at the end of 2004), of which 1.52 million are in the urban area (810,000 in Tinghu District and 710,000 in Yandu District).
The city has a flat terrain, crisscrossing rivers, developed transportation and rich products, and is known as the "Land of Fish and Rice".
After more than 20 years of development since the city was founded, Yancheng's economy has developed rapidly and is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
Jiangsu is shifting its economic focus from the river to the coast, and Yancheng is located in the center of Jiangsu's coast and has an excellent deep-water port.
Moreover, as a city very close to Shanghai, after the opening of the Sutong Bridge, Yancheng entered Shanghai's 2-hour economic circle. Coupled with the establishment of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, Yancheng's relationship with Shanghai and Zhejiang has become closer. The municipal government proposed "
"Being the back garden of Shanghai" is aimed at Yancheng's huge development potential and excellent ecological environment.
Moreover, the opening of the high-speed railway from Qingdao to Shanghai in the future will further promote the leap forward of Yancheng.
Yancheng's transportation is quite developed, with the first-class Nanyang Airport in the country, and highways connected to all parts of the country leading to coastal and inland provinces.
Moreover, as Hong Kong businessmen have invested in Yancheng in recent years, Yancheng has had frequent trade exchanges with Hong Kong. Recently, a two-hour direct flight to Hong Kong has been opened, which has accelerated the exchanges and development between the two places.
Research on place names. It is named after salt. It has a long history. Yancheng has a long history. Yandu County was established in the 4th year of Yuanshou (119 BC) by Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, there were salt cooking pavilions all over the place and salt rivers everywhere. "Du" means the place where salt is transported.
meaning river.
In the 7th year of Yixi (AD 411) of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was renamed Yancheng County, named after "the city is surrounded by salt fields".
Yancheng has experienced more than 2,000 years of historical precipitation, and is full of rich sea salt culture.
In ancient times, it was famous in China for its rich production of "Huai salt" and was called "Huaiyi land" in ancient times.
As early as the Warring States Period, people "boiled the sea to make salt", and "Historical Records" records that "there is plenty of sea salt in the East China Sea."
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, "cooking the sea was beneficial and the canals were used to facilitate transportation", and it has become a prosperous place for fishing and salt.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Huainan salt field was "the richest in the southeast, and half of the border wages came from here". There were "one hundred and twenty-three salt pavilions" in Yancheng alone.
During the Baoying period of Tang Dynasty, there were Hailing Supervisor and Yancheng Supervisor in the territory, and more than one million stones of salt were boiled every year. At that time, Yancheng had become an important salt production center on the southeast coast.
Yancheng is a veritable "salt" city.
Among the place names in various places, there are still names related to salt production management such as "Tuan", "Zao", "Zong", "丿" and "Cang".
"Tuan" refers to the production organization in the salt area and the production form of "gathering together to fry" by kitchen households.
Each salt field has several regiments, and each regiment has several kitchen households. In the old days, places with "Tuan" as their name were mostly located in Dongtai and Dafeng in the ancient Huainan Salt District, such as Nan Tuan, Xituan, Bian Tuan, etc.
At present, Xituan Town in Dafeng still remains, and there are 18 villages and 48 natural village groups in the city whose place names are related to "Tuan".
"Zao" is an important facility for Zao people to fry salt. Six towns and villages in the territory are named after "Zao", including Touzao, Sanzao and Sizao. Another 85 villages and 368 natural village groups are also named after "Zao".
Got its name.
"General" is the unit where the salt farm residents live together.
In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a large-scale "Hongwu Dispersion". Immigrants came to the desert seaside to burn salt. In order to manage the Zao people scattered along the coast, each site was set up in order.
During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there were 30 total salt fields in Fu'an Salt Fields, Dongtai.
Today, the place names of coastal towns and villages still retain the names of No. 1 Zong, No. 2 Zong, and No. 3 Zong. There are also 7 villages and 37 natural village groups named after "Zong" in the territory.
"Cang" means salt warehouse. Biancang Town, Tinghu District, which is famous for its dead branch peonies, was the location of the Wuyou Salt Farm's warehouse.