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Geography and History
Update:0001-01-01
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Taizhou, situated in the coastal central section of Zhejiang, 28°N. Latitude and 122°E. Longitude, has a subtropical monsoon climate. With a land area of 9,411 sq. km. and shallow sea area of 80,000 sq. km., it controls a population of 5.5261 million. Made up of three districts including Jiaojiang, Huangyan and Luqiao in downtown area, it has under control two county-level cities, that is, Linhai and Wenling, and 4 counties such as Yuhuan, Tiantai, Xianju and Sanmen. |
| Having a coastline of 745 km., accounting for 28% of that of Zhejiang, Taizhou has 6 cities, counties and districts on the East China Sea. |
| Taizhou enjoys a long history. 5,000 years ago, the ancestors began to settle there. It was called Huipu Town during the reign of Qin Dynasty (221─207 B.C.) and Huipu County since 85 B.C. in the Western Han Dynasty. In 257 A.D., Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms Period set up Linhai Shire there. In 621 A.D.during theTang Dynasty it was named as Haizhou, and renamed Taizhou in the following year. Following the founding of PRC, Taizhou had been a prefecture in |
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| administrative division. On August 22, 1994, Taizhou Municipality was set up in place of Taizhou Prefecture. In 1999, the State Council determined Taizhou as an economic sub-center in the Shanghai Economic Zone. On August 15, 2003, Taizhou formally became one of the 16 satellite cities of Shanghai. Its goal for the 2nd instant development is: to build Taizhou into a modernized seashore city with developed science, industry and trade in 2020. |
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