Gongqingcheng

The city Gongqingcheng (Ch共青 城市; " city of the Communist Youth" ) is a county-level city, which belongs to the administrative area of the prefecture-level city of Jiujiang in the southern Chinese province of Jiangxi. Gongqingcheng has an area of 193 km ² and has about 120,000 inhabitants. The city was re-founded in November 2010.

Geography

Gongqingcheng located in the north of Jiangxi Province, at the foot of Lu Shan and on the shores of Poyang Hu, from its surface are 23.8 km ² for the city. From the city center of Jiujiang and Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi, the city is only around 50 km away.

Administrative Divisions

Gongqingcheng consists of a road district, two large municipalities and three municipalities. In November 2010, the city was composed of several villages which had belonged up to that three different circles Jiujiang. They are:

• From the circle De'an (德安县): Road district Chashan (茶山 街道);
• Greater community Ganlu (甘露 镇);
• Community jinhu (金 湖乡);

• Greater community Jiangyi (江 益 镇);
• The villages Pingtang (坪 塘村) and Yanfang (燕 坊村) the large village Yanfang (燕 坊镇);

• Community Sujiadang (苏 家 垱 乡);
• Community Zequan (泽 泉 乡).

History

Originally, the current urban area was an area of shoals and sandbanks on the edge of Poyang Hu. On October 18, 1955 initially followed by 98 Shanghai teenagers calling the CPC Central Committee, moved to northern Jiangxi and began here with the draining and reclamation of soils. Many generations of young people, organized by KJVC followed, and gradually built a new city on here.

After the State Council of the People's Republic of China had in 2010 approved the establishment of the independent city, the provincial government Jiangxi published in November 2010, the " Decision on the establishment of the city Gongqingcheng ".

Name of the city

Gongqingcheng literally means "City of the Communist Youth". In the decision of the provincial government puts it, Gongqingcheng was the only place the whole of China, which carry the name of the KJVC. Thus one can speak of a parallel to the numerous towns called Komsomolsk that existed in the Soviet Union, and their successor states to still exist.

In China, local names of this type are very rare. Indeed, there is no other place in China, which would have been named after the Communist Party or any of its mass organizations or subdivisions. Renaming of places according to personal names were prohibited by party decision in the early 1950s. So there are in China neither Karl Marx nor Mao Zedong city. The only exception is Zhongshan, which was named in 1925 after the Chinese revolutionary and founder of the Republic of Sun Zhongshan. The only "political" place names of China, which are common especially at the community level, refer to slogans, symbols or data of events, such as Next, build, Red Star, Red Banner, First August ( anniversary of the PLA ), May Day, etc.