Cixi is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, managed by Ningbo, and is a type II big city. It got its name from An Dong's "Mother's Kindness and Filial Piety" in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cixi is located on the coast of the East China Sea, on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay, 60km from Ningbo in the east, 0/48km from Shanghai/KLOC-0 in the north and 0/38km from Hangzhou/KLOC-0 in the west. It is an important industrial and commercial city in the south wing of the Greater Shanghai Economic Circle in the Yangtze River Delta and one of the coastal economic open areas.
The administrative area of the whole city is 136 1 km2, and it governs 14 towns and 5 streets. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the resident population of Cixi City was 1829488.
Hydrological resources in Cixi City
Cixi has abundant rainfall, but due to its large population, uneven distribution of precipitation in time and space, and weak surface water storage capacity, the annual per capita water possession is only 578 cubic meters, accounting for 24% of the per capita water possession in Zhejiang Province. Cixi is a serious water shortage area, and the contradiction between supply and demand of water resources is prominent. Cixi inland waters are 6 1.75 square kilometers, accounting for about one tenth of the total area. There are 73 long rivers, 770 kilometers long, with gentle river bed gradient and average water depth of 1.2 ~ 1.4 meters.
Most north-south rivers flow northward into the sea, mainly including Songpu, Guyaopu, Yanpu, Shuiyunpu, Sizaopu, Sansong River and Zhoujialu River. The east-west rivers mainly include Huichuan River, Henghe Highway, Dongheng River, gutang River, Sitang River, Liutang River and Tangqi River. The total length of large and small canals is 5,400 kilometers, and the normal storage level is 37.76 million cubic meters. There are 5 small reservoirs, 5 mountain ponds 154, and the total storage capacity 1855600 cubic meters. Groundwater resources are scarce, and the exploitable fresh water resources are only 7.82 million cubic meters per year.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cixi