Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River and the center of Taihu Lake, forming the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area.
Changzhou is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 3,200 years. It was once named Yanling, Piling, Pitan, Jinling, Nanlanling, Changchun, Changzhou and Wujin. It was only in the ninth year of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty (589) that Changzhou was called. Established in 1949.
Up to now, Changzhou has jurisdiction over five administrative districts, namely Tianning District, Zhonglou District, Xinbei District, Wujin District and Jintan District, and a county-level city, liyang city, with 2/kloc-0 sub-district offices, 37 towns, 807 administrative villages and 323 neighborhood committees, with a total area of 4,385 square kilometers.
Changzhou is one of the cradles of the Yangtze River civilization and Wu culture, and also the hometown of Qi Liang in the Southern Dynasties. It is called "China and Wu Fuyao". There are many places of interest in Changzhou, including China Dinosaur Park, Leisure Valley, Spring and Autumn Yancheng and other theme parks, as well as natural scenic spots such as Tianmu Lake, Nanshan Lake, Taihu Lake and Gehu Lake.
Changzhou people belong to Jiangsu and Zhejiang people, and use Wu dialect. Changzhou has famous historical figures, such as Zhan Zhao, Chen Ji, Wu Zhihui, Qu Qiubai, Zhang, Yun, and so on. The main specialties are dried radish, sesame cake, sesame sugar, Liyang wind Goose and wild bamboo shoots.
Biological resources
There are more than 1,000 species of gymnosperms and angiosperms 1000 in Changzhou, belonging to more than 1,000 families. There are abundant resources of traditional Chinese medicine, and more than 1,000 kinds of medicinal varieties 1 have been found, including 9 kinds of plant medicines such as perilla, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Pinellia ternata and Atractylodes lancea, 92 kinds of animal medicines and 0/1kind of mineral medicines. There are 239 kinds of drugs designated as key varieties by the state and province, among which Atractylodes lancea, Pinellia ternata and Schizonepeta tenuifolia are famous medicinal materials in China. There are more than 200 species of animals belonging to Chordata, belonging to 13. There are mussels, shrimps, crabs, fish, pheasants, rabbits and so on. Edible, weasel, leopard cat, grass rabbit, badger, etc. Can be used as fur, skink, cuckoo, woodpecker, grey magpie, domestic bat, etc. Can protect agriculture and forestry.
forest resources
Changzhou hilly area is rich in natural vegetation, with a forest coverage rate of 70%. Liyang has more than 260 kinds of woody trees, with a standing stock of 609,600 cubic meters, and is listed as one of the key forest specialty bases in Jiangsu Province. The southern mountainous area is rich in Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys bambusa and carnation, and is known as the "Bamboo Sea", with the bamboo output ranking second in Jiangsu Province.
mineral resources
Changzhou hills are rich in resources and products. Rocks in mountainous areas, mainly timely sandstone, shale and conglomerate, followed by marble, granite and basalt, are all good building materials. Mengcheng's axe split the stone, angular, white line and yellow line. The bonsai made with it has the natural beauty of male, beautiful and dangerous, and is known as "a must in Meng He".
There are small coal mines in Changzhou, such as Buyi and Hou Yu coal mines in Wujin, Rulin and Maoshan coal mines in Jintan, and Huang Shang and Zhu Ye coal mines in Liyang. Liyang has a small amount of minerals such as iron, copper and manganese. The proven salt reserves in Jintan are 65.438+06.242 billion tons (sodium chloride reserves are 65.438+02.538 billion tons), which are distributed within 60.5 square kilometers. From June 65438 to June 65438 10, 994, Maoxi Salt Mine was put into operation, with an annual production capacity of 3 million standard brine (i.e. 300,000 tons of solid salt), reaching the national standards for large mines.
Up to now, Changzhou has two 5A-level scenic spots, 10 4A-level scenic spots, seven 3A-level scenic spots and eight 2A-level scenic spots. Up to now, there are national key cultural relics protection units 10, 45 provincial cultural relics protection units, 70 Changzhou cultural relics protection units/kloc-0, 20 Changzhou cultural relics protection control units, 42 Jintan cultural relics protection units, 54 liyang city cultural relics protection units and 468 Jintan cultural relics protection control units in Changzhou.