Abbreviation: 禾 (Pinyin: Hé)
Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
Area	3,915 km²
Population	3,320,000 (2004)
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	7
Township-level divisions	75
Mayor	Chen Derong (陈德荣)
Area Code	573
City Flower	Blossom of pomegranate
City Tree	Camphor Laurel Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Sieb.
License Plate Prefix	浙F

Jiaxing (Simplified Chinese: 嘉兴; Traditional Chinese: 嘉興; Pinyin: Jiāxīng; Wade-Giles:Chia-hsing; Postal map spelling: Kashing) is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. Lying on the Grand Canal of China, Jiaxing borders Hangzhou to the southwest, Huzhou to the west, Shanghai to the northeast, and the province of Jiangsu to the north. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: dìjí shì, literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in Chinas administrative structure. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... Ethnolinguistic map of China The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is a multi-ethnic unitary state and, as such, officially recognizes 56 nationalities or mínzú (民族), within China: the Han being the majority (>92%), and the remaining 55 nationalities being the national minorities. ... Languages Chinese languages Religions Predominantly Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, traditional Chinese religions, and atheism. ... Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have always consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have always consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... The Chinese Telephone Code Plan is the way to group telephone numbers in mainland China. ... Binomial name L. The Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall. ... Binomial name Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Sieb. ... Blue PRC licence plates of the 1992 standard (August 2004 image). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Traditional Chinese characters refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... Chinese Postal Map Romanization (Traditional Chinese: 郵政式拼音; Pinyin: Yóuzhèngshì PÄ«nyÄ«n) refers to the system of romanization for Chinese place names which came into use in the late Qing dynasty and was officially sanctioned by the Imperial Postal Joint-Session Conference (帝國郵電聯席會議), which was held in Shanghai in the... A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: dìjí shì, literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in Chinas administrative structure. ... Zhejiang (also spelled Chehkiang or Chekiang) is an eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... A province, in the context of China, is a translation of sheng (省 shÄ›ng), which is an administrative division of China. ... Grand Canal of China The Grand Canal of China (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is the longest ancient canal or artificial river in the world. ...   (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Postal map spelling: Hangchow) is a sub-provincial city located in the Yangtze River Delta in the Peoples Republic of China, and the capital of Zhejiang province. ... Huzhou (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Shanghai (Chinese: ; pinyin:  ; Wu (Long-short): ZÃ¥nhae; Shanghainese (IPA): ), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the Peoples Republic of China and the seventh largest in the world. ... Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江苏; Traditional Chinese: 江蘇; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ...

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Jiaxing administers 7 county-level divisions, including 2 districts, 3 county-level cities and 2 counties. A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: dìjí shì, literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in Chinas administrative structure. ... Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have always consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... District, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... A county-level city (县级市 Pinyin: xiànjí shì) is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. ... In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of 县 (xiàn). ...

• Nanhu District (南湖区)
• Xiuzhou District (秀洲区)
• Haining City (海宁市)
• Pinghu City (平湖市)
• Tongxiang City (桐乡市)
• Jiashan County (嘉善县)
• Haiyan County (海盐县)

These are further divided into 75 township-level divisions, including 60 towns, 2 townships and 13 subdistricts. Xiuzhou District (秀洲区) District is located between Shanghai and Hangzhou. ... Haining (zh:海宁市) is a city in Zhejiang province in China. ... Pinghu municipality is situated in northeast Zhejiang Province, next to the East China Sea and Hangzhou Bays north shore, close to Chinas largest city Shanghai. ... Tongxiang City (桐乡市; pinyin: Tóngxiāng Shì) is a county-level city, part of Jiaxing, in northern Zhejiang Province, China. ... Jiashan County (嘉善县; pinyin Jiāshàn Xiàn) is a county of Zhejiang Province, China, administered by the prefecture-level city Jiaxing. ... Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have always consisted of several levels since ancient times. ... When referring to Political Divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese 镇 (zhèn). ... When referring to Political Divisions of China, township is the standard English translation of the Chinese 乡 (xiāng). ... The Subdistrict is one of the smallest Political_divisions_of_China. ...

History

• 210 BC: Qin Shi Huang changed the name of Jiaxing from Changshui District (长水县) to Youquan (由拳縣).
• 231: Master Yedao (野稻) of Jiaxing informed Sun Quan of the Kingdom of Wu that there was a sign of auspice, so Sun changed Youchuan to Hexing District (禾興縣). This why Jiaxing's abbreviation is He. Sun also changed his era name to Jiahe (嘉禾) in the following year.
• January 242: Sun He was made the crown prince. To prevent the name taboo, Jiahe was changed to Jiaxing.
• 938: (Later Jin of the Five Dynasties): Xiu Prefecture (秀州) established
• 1117: (Song Dynasty): Lianghe District (亮禾郡)
• 1429: (Ming Dynasty): Xiushui District (秀水縣) was established northwest of Jiaxing.
• Early 1900s (the Republic of China): Xiushui and Jiaxing were combined into Jiahe County
• 1914: Reverted to Jiaxing County (because there's a Jiahe in Hunan Province)
• 1921: Communist Party of China founded at the South Lake in Jiaxing.
• 1949 – 1958, 1979 (PRC): Upgraded to a city
• 1981: Old Jiaxing County merged into the city
• 1983: Upgraded to prefecture-level city

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Economy

Jiaxing produces silk (hence textile as well). Silk dresses Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. ... “fabric” redirects here. ...

Tourism

• South Lake, where the Communist Party of China was officially founded.

This boat, floating in South Lake, Jiaxing, is a replica of the one in which the Chinese Communist party was founded in 1921. ... The Communist Party of China (CPC) (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China, a position guaranteed by the countrys constitution. ...

Transportation

Jiaxing is situated at the juncture of the Hangzhou-Shanghai Railway.

Jiaxing will be a station on the proposed Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train Line. Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train is a proposed maglev train line from Shanghai to Hangzhou, in eastern China. ...

Notable people

• Xu Zhimo, poet
• Shiing-Shen Chern, mathematician
• Zhang Leping, cartoonist

Hsu Chih-mo (徐志摩, pinyin: Xú Zhìmó) (January 15, 1897-November 19, 1931) was a twentieth-century Chinese poet. ... Chen Xingshen Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn; October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. ... Zhang Leping Zhang Leping (Chinese: 张乐平, November 10, 1910 - September 27, 1992) was a comic artist born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China. ...

External links

• Government website of Jiaxing (in Simplified Chinese)

Coordinates: 30°46′N, 120°45′E Zhejiang, a province of the Peoples Republic of China, is made up of the following three levels of administrative division: 11 prefecture-level divisions all of which are prefecture-level cities 90 county-level divisions 22 county-level cities 35 counties 1 autonomous county 32 districts 1598 township-level... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...