How many districts and counties are there in Xuzhou?

Xuzhou now governs 5 municipal districts, 3 counties and 2 county-level cities.

1. Municipal districts: Gulou District, Yunlong District, jiawang district, quanshan district and tongshan district.

2. County-level cities: xinyi city and Pizhou.

3. Counties: Fengxian, Peixian and Suining.

In addition, Xuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone is a state-level economic and technological development zone established in Xuzhou, with four sub-district offices under its jurisdiction.

Xuzhou is located in the middle of Huanghuai Plain, which is a transitional zone between north and south. Surrounded by mountains, plains and hills, it is a city with a higher average altitude in Jiangsu Province. There are Dadong Mountain, Quanshan Mountain, Huanggu Mountain, Larry Mountain, Yunlong Mountain, Xiaotai Mountain and Woniu Mountain in Xuzhou, among which there are 72 peaks in the main city. Dadongshan, located in the north of jiawang district, is the highest elevation in the city.

The forest coverage rate in Xuzhou is over 30%, and the green coverage rate in urban areas (mainly built-up areas) is over 40%, ranking first among cities in Jiangsu Province.

The rivers in Xuzhou include the Old Yellow River, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the Yi River and the Shuhe River. Among them, the Yellow River changed its course in the second year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 128), passing through the northeast of Xuzhou City and taking the Huaihe River to the sea. In the fifth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1855), the Yellow River changed its course again and entered the Bohai Sea via Shandong.

Leave the old course of the Yellow River. When the Yellow River flows through Xuzhou, its dikes often burst, which has a great impact on the production and life of Xuzhou people. Now there is a saying in Xuzhou that "the city is above the city", which is caused by the repeated flooding and siltation of the Yellow River.

Xuzhou is an important gateway city in East China, an important economic, scientific, educational, cultural, financial, medical and foreign trade center in East China, an important node city of the National Belt and Road, a sub-central city in the northern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, a core city in Xuzhou metropolitan area and an international new energy base. It has the reputation of "Capital of Construction Machinery in China".

Climate:

Xuzhou is located in the transition zone from subtropical monsoon climate to warm temperate monsoon climate. There are differences in the extent to which the East and the West are affected by the ocean. The eastern part has a warm temperate humid monsoon climate, and the western part has a warm temperate semi-humid monsoon climate, which is greatly influenced by the southeast monsoon.

The annual sunshine hours are 2284-2495 hours, the sunshine rate is 52%-57%, the annual temperature is 14.9℃, the annual frost-free period is 200-220 days, the annual precipitation is 800-930mm, and the precipitation in rainy season accounts for 56% of the whole year.

Excellent climatic resources are conducive to crop growth. The main meteorological disasters are drought, flood, wind, frost, freezing and hail. The climate is characterized by four distinct seasons, abundant sunshine, moderate rainfall and both rain and heat. Among the four seasons, spring and autumn are short, winter and summer are long, the weather in spring is changeable, summer is hot and rainy, autumn is crisp, and winter is cold and dry.