Zhanjiang
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| Zhanjiang | |
| — Prefecture-level city — | |
| Guangdong Province | |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| - Chinese | 湛江 |
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| - Pinyin | Zhànjiāng |
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| Coordinates: 21°12′N 110°24′E / 21.2°N 110.4°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| City seat | Chikan District |
| Government | |
| - CPC Party Chief | Chen Yaoguang (陈耀光) |
| - Mayor | Ruan Risheng (阮日生) |
| Area | |
| - Total | 12,490 km2 (4,822.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2008) | |
| - Total | 6,902,400 |
| - Density | 552.6/km2 (1,431.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 524000 |
| Area code(s) | 759 |
| Major Nationalities | Han |
| County-level divisions | 9 |
| License Plate Prefix | 粤G |
| Website | http://www.zhanjiang.gov.cn/ |
Zhanjiang (湛江; French Fort-Bayard) is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province, in southeast China.
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[edit] Administration
Zhanjiang has direct juridiction over 9 county-level divisions:
- Chikan District (赤坎区; pinyin: Chìkǎn Qū)
- Mazhang District (麻章区; pinyin: Mázhāng Qū)
- Potou District (坡头区; pinyin: Pōtóu Qū)
- Xiashan District (霞山区; pinyin: Xiáshān Qū)
- Leizhou City (雷州市; pinyin: Léizhōu Shì)
- Lianjiang City (廉江市; pinyin: Liánjiāng Shì)
- Wuchuan City (吴川市; pinyin: Wúchuān Shì)
- Suixi County (遂溪县; pinyin: Suíxī Xiàn)
- Xuwen County (徐闻县; pinyin: Xúwén Xiàn)
[edit] Geography
Zhanjiang is located to the southwest of the city of Guangzhou on an inlet of the South China Sea. It is located on the eastern coast of the Leizhou Peninsula. The dialect of Leizhou is not Cantonese (Yue) but a dialect of Min Nan.
[edit] History
Zhanjiang was a small fishing port when it was occupied by the French in 1898. The next year, the French forced the Chinese to lease Zhanjiang to them for 99 years as the territory of Kwang-Chou-Wan. The French wanted to develop the port, which they called Fort Bayard, to serve southern China, in parts of which France had exclusive rights to railway and mineral development. Their efforts, however, were hindered by the poverty of the surrounding land. The French retained control of the region until 1943, when the Japanese occupied the area during World War II. At the end of the war the region returned briefly under French rule before being formally returned to China in 1946 by the general De Gaulle, then French head of state.
Until the introduction of Pinyin spelling, it was often known in the west as "Tsamkong" due to the Cantonese pronunciation of the name.
[edit] Military
Chinese Navy Sea Fleet in Zhanjiang
[edit] Economy
Zhanjiang City, the most important resource is the resource port. Zhanjiang Port 241 kilometers long coastline, is the world's first port of 4 times the port of Rotterdam. Zhanjiang Port is the one of the eight major ports, the annual throughput of more than 2,600 million tons. After the founding of New China's first self-designed and built the world's rare in modern deep water port.
It is a seaport and trade center having many varied industries, including shipyards, textile plants, and sugar refining.
[edit] Agriculture
Zhanjiang agricultural performance in 2007 is the most prominent sugarcane production: in 2006 9,135,500 tons, 1,000 million tons in 2007.
[edit] Industrial
Industrial economy to make a breakthrough, a marked increase in the number of units. Zhanjiang in 2007 of all industrial output value of 112.134 billion yuan, up 17.1 percent, a growth rate of nearly 4-year high of 15.3 billion net increase over the previous year. In 2007 the city's industrial enterprises above designated size reached 714, 71 more than last year, industrial output value of over a hundred million of the 132 enterprises.
[edit] Business
Zhanjiang in 2007 total retail sales of social consumer goods 38.216 billion yuan, an increase of 19.5%, the growth rate of nearly 12 years since a new high.
[edit] Port of Zhanjiang
Port of Zhanjiang is located in the southernmost tip of mainland China's Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, the east port of the South China Sea, south of Hainan Island, the north west Bay, north the Southwest. People's Republic of China after the establishment of their own design and construction of the first modern port, China and Southeast Asia, Australia, European countries bordering the Indian Ocean and the shortest journey between the port's foreign trade.
[edit] Tourism
Zhanjiang, China's best tourist city
Zhanjiang, a well-known tourist attractions, "Zhanjiang Eight," as follows:
- East Island
- Huguangyan National Geopark
- View of the sea promenade
- Park Jin-inch
- Lighthouse
- Hot for the Botanic Gardens in South Asia
- South Isles
- Zhanjiang Port
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[edit] French architectural monuments
- French minister to the Department of the Guangzhou Bay
- France, the Police Department, Guangzhou Bay
- Victor Catholic Church
- Calyon site
- Gospel
- Guangzhou Bay Chamber of Commerce Center
In addition the sea and the sky dragon, Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve, Cape Reservoir is well-known tourist attractions, distinctive.
[edit] See also
[edit] Sister cities
[edit] External links
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