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Coordinates: 30°52′N 120°06′E / 30.867°N 120.100°E / 30.867; 120.100
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Huzhou
湖州
Prefecture-level city
湖州市
Huzhou (red) in Zhejiang province (orange) and China
Huzhou (red) in Zhejiang province (orange) and China
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceZhejiang
Township-level divisions5
Township-level divisions66
Government
 • CPC SecretarySun Wenyou (孫文友)
 • MayorMa Yi (馬以)
Area
 • Land5,818 km2 (2,246 sq mi)
Population
 • Total2,570,000
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code572
GDP (2009)¥111.2 billion
GDP per capita (2009)¥39,206
License Plate浙E
Websitehttp://www.huzhou.gov.cn/
Huzhou
Chinese湖州
Wuvu ciu (Huzhou dialect)
ghu平tseu平 (Shanghai dialect)
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHúzhōu
Wu
Romanizationvu ciu (Huzhou dialect)
ghu平tseu平 (Shanghai dialect)
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingwu4zau1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJôo-tsiu

Huzhou (Chinese: 湖州; pinyin: Húzhōu; Huzhou pronunciation vu ciu) is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province of Eastern China. Lying south of the Lake Tai, it borders Jiaxing to the east, Hangzhou to the south, and the provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu to the west and north respectively.

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Huzhou administers six county-level divisions, including one economic development zone and two districts and three counties.

These are further divided into 66 township-level divisions, including 50 towns, 10 townships and six subdistricts.

Location

  • Huzhou is in the center of Yangtze River Delta Economic Area, next to Shanghai in the east, on the south beach of Taihu lake—the third big freshwater lake in the China, rejoices Hangzhou in the south and links to Jiangsu and Anhui province in the west.
  • The State Way 318 of east-to-west direction, the State Way 104 of north-to-south direction, the Changxing-Huzhou-Shanghai Channel—Eastern Rhine River, Xuancheng-Hanghzou railway—the secondary tunnel in the east of China, Nanjing-Huzhou-Hangzhou express way and Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui express way contributes to a quick and complicated transportation system.

History

Qing dynasty

American Baptist missionaries operated in Huzhou during the Qing dynasty.[1][2]

Economy

  • Huzhou is known as the City of Silk, is one of the Four Capital-cities of Silk in China.
  • Textiles (especially silk), building materials and agriculture.

Military

Huzhou is headquarters of the 1st Group Army of the People's Liberation Army, one of the three group armies that comprise the Nanjing Military Region responsible for the defense of China's eastern coast and the recovery of Taiwan.

Tourism

The Lotus Garden (pinyin "Lianhua Zhuang") is a small garden located near the city center of Huzhou. It was built in 1924 and features local history, including a Tea House, and ancient stones transferred from TaiHu-Lake Tai. The park is open during daytime hours, free admission, and many local people will have Taiji exercise or Mahjong games. The park has a lake system where Lotus flowers bloom seasonally, and a large Koi pond attraction. Also, pedal boats are available for leisure.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1893). Baptist missionary magazine, Volume 73. Vol. VOLUME LXXIII. BOSTON : MISSONARY ROOMS.: American Baptist Missionary Union. p. 315. Retrieved 1st of March, 2012. approval of the native magistrates, and with the best of titles, accomplished without any help from the consul. This gives our mission in Huchau a thoroughly legal standing, marks the changed temper of the people, and is a call to American Baptists to prepare for future harvests in this populous plain. Thus far no Huchau natives have been baptized; but we have a few inquirers and about fifteen regular attendants on Sundays, besides, of course, large numbers of occasional hearers. Our Needy Parish. — Huchau Prefecture is forty miles by fifty. Besides us, there is only one other resident missionary in the territory. There are a million idolaters. There are hundreds- of villages never yet visited by a missionary or native preacher. Proper gospel preach ing requires repeated visits to the same place. We are overwhelmed with the vast number of opportunities. What shall we do? Get native preachers from the older stations? £Io, for they do not succeed in learning the Huchau dialect. You friends at home must help us pray that God may raise up native Huchau preachers. Missionaries are needed first to gather a body of converts from, which to select the leaders. To open for us speedily the hearts and homes of many, send us a missionary physician. Send us several families for extension work. In this prefecture, besides other inviting fields, are two walled cities, wholly unoccupied, where we ought to place missionaries at once — Chang-hing and Hiao-fung. Hangchau Chapel. — This is on a busy street in the growing capital of the province. Scores of hearers daily listen to the message of the native preacher. Sometimes I help him in a series of evening meetings. For twenty and more years our mission has done its share of general evangelization and of instruction of inquirers. But when it comes to joining a church, the Chinaman is not peculiar in going where there are the most attractions. Therefore, if we intend to work in Hangchau, there should be a Baptist missionary there at once. Otherwise we should sell out .the chapel and lot, and retire. Although four other missions work in the city, there is ample room for us among eight hundred thousand people. Something should be done soon. For our work to exist so long at this poor dying rate is not creditable to American Baptists or honoring to Christ. Shang-pah Church. — Shang-pah (or Zong-pah), forty miles southwest of Huchau, is the largest town in Wu kang County. Being in Huchau Prefecture, the work in that county formerly connected with the Shaohing station is now superintended from Huchau. We own a good chapel. The church has about thirty members, mostly farmers. The preacher, now supported by the Missionary Union, ought to be supported by the Christians. How to get them to do it is the problem. Their characters, as V rule, show evidence of divine grace; but none are as earnestly seeking as they ought for the spiritual welfare of their tens of thousands of heathen neighbors. We all need more of the Spirit's power, and we are seeking that in faith. But the more prayer ascends from your hearts in America for us, the more power shall -we receive for the help of men and the glory of God. KINHWA. Rev. Alfred Copp and wife, Miss Clara E. Righter, Miss Annie S. Young. Rev. Joseph S. Adams and wife, absent on furlough. Mr. Copp reports : — As I cannot be in Kinhwa at present, much against my wish, as the students were in the city when we left, I am making the best of my time here in Shaohing by selling books and tracts in a regular canvass we are making of the city, and in helping to carry on the chapel preaching at Mr. Gould's two places here in this city. We are having a good time selling Scriptures from house to house, and a pretty good time preaching in the street chapels. What a large city this is! Perhaps some three or four hundred thousand inhabitants. There are said to be seventy thousand persons engaged in making paper, etc., for idol worship. Oh, if you could {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 304 (help)(the University of Wisconsin - Madison)(Digitized Jan 14, 2009)
  2. ^ American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (May 23 and 24, 1890). Annual report ..., Volumes 76-79. BOSTON MISSIONARY ROOMS, TREMONT TEMPLE. p. 137. Retrieved 1st of March, 2012. approval of the native magistrates, and with the best of titles, accomplished without any help from the consul. This gives our mission in Huchau a thoroughly legal standing, marks the changed temper of the people, and is a call to American Baptists to prepare for future harvests in this populous plain. Thus far no Huchau natives have been baptized; but we have a few inquirers and about fifteen regular attendants on Sundays, besides, of course, large numbers of occasional hearers. Our Xeedy Parish.— Huchau Prefecture is forty miles by fifty. Besides us, there is only one other resident missionary in the territory. There are a million idolaters. There are hundreds of villages never yet visited by a missionary or native preacher. Proper gospel preaching requires repeated visits to the same place. We are overwhelmed with the vast number of opportunities. What shall we do? Get native preachers from the older stations? No, for they do not succeed in learning the Huchau dialect. You friends at home must help us pray that God may raise up native Huchau preachers. Missionaries are needed first to gather a body of converts from which to select the leaders. To open for us speedily the hearts and homes of many, send us a missionary physician. Send us several families for extension work. In this prefecture, besides other inviting fields, are two walled cities, wholly unoccupied, where we ought to place missionaries at once — Chang-hing and Hiao-fung. Hangchau Chapel.— This is on a busy street in the growing capital of the province. Scores of hearers daily listen to the message of the native preacher. Sometimes I help him in a series of evening meetings. For twenty and more years our mission has done its share of general evangelization and of instruction of inquirers. But when it comes to joining'a church, the Chinaman is not peculiar in going where there are the most attractions. Therefore, if we intend to work in Hangchau, there should be a Baptist missionary there at once. Otherwise we should sell out the chapel and lot, and retire. Although four other missions work in the city, there is ample room for us among eight hundred thousand people. Something should be done soon. For our work to exist so long at this poor dying rate is not creditable to American Baptists or honoring to Christ. Shang-pah Church.— Shang-pah (or Zong-pah), forty miles southwest of Huchau, is the largest town in Wu kang County. Being in Huchau Prefecture, the work in that county formerly connected with the Shaohing station is now superintended from Huchau. We own a good chapel. The church has about thirty members, mostly farmers. The preacher, now supported by the Missionary Union, ought to be supported by the Christians. How to get them to do it is the problem. Their characters, as a rule, show evidence of divine grace; but none are as earnestly seeking as they ought for the spiritual welfare of their tens of thousands of heathen neighbors. We all need more of the Spirit's power, and we are seeking that in faith. But the more prayer ascends from your hearts in America for us, the more power shall we receive for the help of men and the glory of God. KINHWA. Rev. Alfred Copp and wife, Miss Clara E. Righter, Miss Annie S. Young. Rev. Joseph S. Adams and wife, absent on furlough. Mr. Copp reports : — As I cannot be in Kinhwa at present, much against my wish, as the students were in the city when we left, I am making the best of my time here in Shaohing by selling books and tracts in a regular canvass we are making of the city, and in helping to carry on the chapel preaching at Mr. Gould's two places here in this city. We are having a good time selling Scriptures from house to house, and a pretty good time preaching in the street chapels. What a large city this is! Perhaps some three or four hundred thousand inhabitants. There are said to be seventy thousand persons engaged in making paper, etc., for idol worship. Oh, if you could {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 304 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)(the New York Public Library)(Digitized Feb 4, 2011)
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