Sanshui District

Sanshui (Chinese三水区/三水区, pinyin Sānshuǐ qū, three water ') is a district of the city of Foshan in south China's Guangdong Province.

Geography

The municipality Sanshui located at the junction of North River and Sui River in the West River, the little below - at Guangzhou - merges into the Pearl River; the name - Three water - is based from that geographical location.

The surface shape of the district is just Sanshui in southern and central part, the northern part is hilly. The climate is subtropical to tropical; the average temperature in January is 13 ° C, the average temperature at about July 27 ° C. The annual rainfall is about 1,700 mm.

Ethnic structure of the population Sanshuis (2000)

At the census in 2000 Sanshui had 440 119 inhabitants.

Economy

The per capita GDP of the district amounts to about 25 400 RMB per year (as of 2002), which is well above the provincial average of 15.6 thousand RMB.

Sanshui has resources of crude oil and natural gas, coal, oil shale, gypsum, limestone, marl, clay, silica sand, rock salts. In addition, kapok grow, banyan and camphor trees and plants that are used in Chinese medicine in the forests of the district Sanshui. There are also wild animals such as wild boar or hare.

Within Guangdong Sanshui district of the city is a major food producer. Besides rice corn, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, peanuts, fruits and vegetables are grown. The farming of fish and pigs plays a particularly important role.

For the industry of the district, the building materials, textiles and food processing are of great importance. The soft drink brand Jianlibao is produced in Sanshui.

Management

The municipality Sanshui is part of the prefecture-level city of Foshan. On 8 December 2002, the district-free city Sanshui had been dissolved and incorporated as a city district in Foshan. Sanshui is bordered to the north by the municipality Qingcheng and the circle Qingxin (both Qingyuan City ), to the east by the district of Huadu ( Guangzhou ) and Nanhai ( Foshan City ), to the south and southwest by the Municipality Gaoming ( Foshan City ) and in the west to the Municipality Dinghu and the cities of Gaoyao and Sihui (all three part of the prefecture-level city Zhaoqing ).

The municipality is divided into a street and quarter four large municipalities:

Road District Xinan (西南街道);
Greater community Lubao (芦苞镇);
Greater community Datang (大塘镇);
Greater community Leping (乐平镇);
Greater community Baini (白坭镇).

Two street district and two large municipalities were dissolved in 2003 and integrated into other; They are:

Ex large community Liuhe (六和镇), now part of Datang;
Ex Street district Nanbian (南边街道), now part of Leping;
Ex large community Hekou (河口镇), now part of Xi'nan;
Ex Street district Jinben (金本街道), now part of Xi'nan.

Traffic

Sanshui is located on the railway line from Guangzhou to the west by Maoming. In addition, the south of the district is crossed by the Guangzhou - Foshan - Kaiping Expressway as well as the running parallel to national road 324. The north of the borough, however, traffic- less well connected than the south, where the road is Xi'nan quarter. A high significance of the harbor at West River, direction can be carried on the goods as people in Northern Southern.

Known children of the city

Wang Jingwei (* 1883, † 1944), politician, chairman of the pro-Japanese government during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Chancheng - Gaoming - Nanhai - Foshan Sanshui - Shunde

Location in Guangdong
Municipality in China

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