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'嘉兴市
Jiāxīng Shì'

Abbreviation: 禾 (Pinyin: Hé)
Jiaxing is highlighted on this map
'Administration Type'	Prefecture-level city
'Area'	3,915 km²
'Population'	3,320,000 (2004)
'Major Nationalities'	Han
'County-level divisions'	7
'Township-level divisions'	75
'Mayor'	Chen Derong (陈德荣)
'Area Code'	573
'City Flower'	Blossom of pomegranate
'City Tree'	Camphor Laurel ''Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Sieb.''
'License Plate Prefix'	浙F

'Jiaxing' (; Wade-Giles:Chia-hsing; Postal map spelling: Kashing) is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. Lying on the Grand Canal of China, Jiaxing borders Hangzhou to the southwest, Huzhou to the west, Shanghai to the northeast, and the province of Jiangsu to the north.

Contents

Administration

History

Economy

Tourism

Transportation

Notable people

External links

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Jiaxing administers 7 county-level divisions, including 2 districts, 3 county-level cities and 2 counties.

★ Nanhu District (南湖区)

★ Xiuzhou District (秀洲区)

★ Haining City (海宁市)

★ Pinghu City (平湖市)

★ Tongxiang City (桐乡市)

★ Jiashan County (嘉善县)

★ Haiyan County (海盐县)
These are further divided into 75 township-level divisions, including 60 towns, 2 townships and 13 subdistricts.

History

★ 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 the Kingdom of Wu that there was 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) in the following year.

★ January 242: Sun He 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)

★ 1921: Communist Party of China founded at the South Lake in Jiaxing.

★ 1949 – 1958, 1979 (PRC): Upgraded to a city

★ 1981: Old Jiaxing County merged into the city

★ 1983: Upgraded to prefecture-level city

Economy

Jiaxing produces silk (hence textile as well).

Tourism

★ South Lake, where the Communist Party of China was officially founded.

Transportation

Jiaxing is situated at the juncture of the Hangzhou-Shanghai Railway.
Jiaxing will be a station on the proposed Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train Line.

Notable people

★ Xu Zhimo, poet

★ Shiing-Shen Chern, mathematician

★ Zhang Leping, cartoonist

External links

★ Government website of Jiaxing (in Simplified Chinese)