Xuancheng
| Xuancheng 宣城市 |
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| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Anhui |
| County-level divisions | 7 |
| Township-level divisions | 115 |
| Settled | 109 BC |
| Municipal seat | Xuanzhou District (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Han Jun (韩军) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12,340 km2 (4,760 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,794,000 |
| • Density | 230/km2 (590/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 242000 |
| Area code(s) | 0563 |
| License Plate Prefix | 皖P |
| Website | xuancheng |
Xuancheng (Chinese: 宣城; pinyin: Xuānchéng) is a city in the southeast of Anhui province. Originally founded in 109 BCE, Xuancheng has over 2,000 years of history. Located in the lower Yangtze River drainage basin and Yangtze River Delta, it borders Wuhu to the northwest, Chizhou to the west, Huangshan to the southwest, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu to the southeast and northeast respectively.
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History
As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-24AD), Danyang Commandery was established on this region with Wanling (presently Xuanzhou District, the site of the Xuancheng Municipal Government) as its capital city. Since then, Xuanzhou has been the political, economic and cultural center of administration for two thousand years.
Geography
Its terrain is varied and complicated, basically sloping downward from the south to the north. Its landform can be approximately divided into five types: Mountain, hill, valley and basin, hillock and plain. The south and southeast regions belong to ranges of Tianmu Mountain, while the southwest and west regions are respectively parts of ranges of Mt. Huangshan and Mt. Jiuhua.
The city enjoys a subtropical humid monsoon climate, enjoying four distinct seasons and abundant precipitation. Of the four seasons, summer is the longest. Its annual average temperature falls round 15.6C (60.1F). Most of the rainfall occurs in summer. The plum rain season lasts from mid-June to early July.[1]
Administration
Xuancheng City administers seven county-level divisions, including one district, one county-level city and five counties.
- Xuanzhou District (宣州区)
- Ningguo City (宁国市)
- Langxi County (郎溪县)
- Guangde County (广德县)
- Jing County (泾县)
- Jixi County (绩溪县)
- Jingde County (旌德县)
These are further divided into 115 township-level divisions, including 61 towns, 44 townships and ten subdistricts.
Language and culture
In Xuancheng, the Jiang-Huai Mandarin and Wu dialect are spoken as well as Mandarin.
Xuancheng is a city with 2,000 years of history and cultural relics. It has a profound cultural heritage and rich tourism resources. There are many scenery resorts, such as the country's largest captive breeding bases—Chinese Crocodile Lake, one of the four unique scenes – Taiji Cave, Peach Blossom Pool, Jing Ting Mountain, Zhangshan Canyon, and cultural sites of the New Fourth Army, the Ancestral Hall of the Hu Family in Jixi, the Former Residence of Mr. Hu Shih, the Jiang's Village in Jingde, and so on. Since reform and opening up, the city has achieved a lot of progress, and is accelerating the development of municipal services, transport, tourism and other infrastructural facilities. Xuancheng, as a new city with pleasant environments of living, enterprising, sightseeing, is on the rise.
Notable people
- Hu Shih (1891–1962): Philosopher, essayist and diplomat, one of the leaders of China's New Culture Movement, former president of Peking University (in 1939 Hu Shih was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature)
- Wang Jiaxiang (1906–1974): The first Chinese Ambassador to Soviet Union after the establishment of People's Republic of China
- Wu Zuoren (1908–1997): Painter, former principal of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts
- Jiang Zemin (1926– ): Former General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China
- Hu Jintao (1942– ): Former General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China
- Mei Yaochen (1002–60), a major poet of the Northern Song Dynasty
Education
- Hefei University of Technology Xuancheng Campus
Transportation
Rail
Xuancheng is served by the Anhui–Jiangxi Railway and Beijing–Taipei High-Speed Rail Corridor.
References
External links
- Xuancheng Government website (in Simplified Chinese)
