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Which city does Zhenjiang City in Jiangsu belong to?

Zhenjiang is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province. Zhenjiang is located in eastern China and southern Jiangsu. It is a member city of Nanjing metropolitan area and an important part of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration. It is an important transportation hub in East China, connecting Nanjing in the west, Changzhou in the south and Yangzhou in the north.

Zhenjiang is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It is an important port, industrial, trade and scenic tourist city in the Yangtze River Delta region. It has won many national honorary titles such as national civilized city, national historical and cultural city, national ecological city, China excellent tourist city and national excellent city for comprehensive management of social security.

With a total area of 3,840 square kilometers and a permanent population of 3.2 million, it governs Danyang, Jurong and Yangzhong, Dantu, Jingkou and Runzhou, Zhenjiang New District and Zhenjiang High-tech Zone.

Fresh and beautiful, excellent ecology. Zhenjiang is known as the "urban mountain forest". There are 235 mountains and 63 rivers in the city, with a forest coverage rate of 25.4% and a green coverage rate of 42.4% in the built-up area. A total of 65,438 national-level green factories and 62 municipal-level green factories have been built, making it a national pilot city for ecological civilization and low-carbon construction.

Rich background and rich humanities. Zhenjiang, with a written history of over 3,000 years, is an important birthplace of Wu culture. Legends and stories such as "Liu Bei's Bride" and "Water on the Jinshan Mountain" are widely circulated, and famous works such as Selected Works of Zhaoming and Wen Xin Diao Long are written here. There are 8 universities and more than 20 technical secondary schools with 65,438+10,000 students, and urban innovation ranks 2 1 in China.

Convenient transportation and rich resources. Zhenjiang is located at the intersection of Shanghai metropolitan area and Nanjing metropolitan area, with five railways and five expressway crossing the border. It takes 1 hour to get to Shanghai and 4 hours to get to Beijing. It has the longest deep-water coastline of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, with a port throughput of 3,565,438+1100 million tons.

In 2020, Zhenjiang achieved a regional GDP of 422.009 billion yuan, an increase of 3.5% over the previous year; General public budget revenue was 3165438+74 million yuan, an increase of1.6% over the previous year; Total retail sales of social consumer goods11465438+93 million yuan, down1.4% from the previous year; The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents reached 54,572 yuan and 28,402 yuan, up by 3.5% and 6.0% respectively.

Zhenjiang human history

More than 3,000 years ago (before 1026- before 100 1) was a suitable place for Geng, and now the Zhenjiang area is a suitable place. 1954, a national treasure Western Zhou bronze "Houyi Kuang" and its inscription 126 were unearthed in Yandun Mountain, Dagang, Zhenjiang.

In the long recorded years of more than 3,000 years, Zhenjiang changed its name many times: Zhu Fang in the Spring and Autumn Period, Guyang in the Warring States Period, Dantu in the Qin Dynasty, Jingkou in the Three Kingdoms Period, Jingkou South Xuzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, Runzhou after the reunification of the Sui Dynasty. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, the name of Zhenjiang has been constantly changing.

Zhenjiang (a prefecture-level city under Jiangsu Province)-Baidu Encyclopedia