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Jiaxing

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Jiaxing (嘉兴市; Postal System Pinyin: Kashing; Wade-Giles: Chia-hsing) is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China|China. It is on the Huangpu River and the Grand Canal of China|Grand Canal. Situated at the juncture of the Hangzhou-Shanghai Railway, Jiaxing produces silk (hence textile as well).

  • Area: 3915 square kilometre|km?

  • Population: 3,320,000 (2001)

  • Municipal seat: Xiucheng District

  • Geographic coordinates: 30?15'-31?02' North; 120?20'-121?31' East

  • Abbreviation: He (禾)




  • 210 BC: Qin Shi Huang changed the name of Jiaxing from Changshui District (长水县) to Youquan (由拳縣).

  • 231: Master Yedao (野稻) of Jiaxing informed Sun Quan of Wu Kingdom that there is a sign of auspice, so Sun changed Youchuan to Hexing District (禾興縣). This why Jiaxing's abbreviation is He. Sun also changed his era name to Jiahe (嘉禾) the following year.

  • January 242: Sun He (和) was made the crown prince. To prevent the name taboo, Jiahe was changed to Jiaxing.

  • 938 (Later Jin of the Five Dynasties): Xiu Prefecture (秀州) established

  • 1117 (Song Dynasty): Lianghe District (亮禾郡)

  • 1429 (Ming Dynasty): Xiushui District (秀水縣) was established northwest of Jiaxing.

  • Early 1900s (the Republic of China): Xiushui and Jiaxing were combined into Jiahe County

  • 1914: Reverted to Jiaxing County (because there's a Jiahe in Hunan Province)

  • 1949 - 1958, 1979 (PRC): Upgraded to a city

  • 1981: Old Jiaxing County merged into the city

  • 1983: Upgraded to prefecture-level city




Jiaxing City contains 2 districts, 3 county-level cities, and 2 counties. (See Political divisions of China#Levels)
  • Xiucheng District

  • Xiuzhou District

  • Haining City

  • Pinghu City

  • Tongxiang City

  • Jiashan County

  • Haiyan County


The above entities include 13 sub-districts, 60 towns, and 2 townships; which in term are subdivided 195 communities, 137 neighbourhoods, and 1091 administrative villages.



  • Xu Zhimo, writer

  • Shiing-shen Chern, mathematician




  • http://www.jiaxing.gov.cn Official site (in Simplified Chinese)


Zhejiang

Category:Cities in China

ja:嘉興
zh:嘉兴

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Jiaxing".


Last Modified:   2005-04-13


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