Taishan

Taishan (Chinese台山 市, pinyin Taishan shì, Cantonese Toisan si, local dialect: Hoisan ) is a county-level city, which belongs to the administrative area of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen in Guangdong Province, China. It has an area of ​​3286 km ² and around 990,000 inhabitants ( 2002). It is one of the most important places of origin of overseas Chinese. Until the opening of China in the 1980s, had about 3 /4 of all of North America Chinese roots in Taishan. Hoisan lingua franca was in the Chinatowns of San Francisco and New York.

Geography

Taishan is located on the western side of the Pearl River Delta. The surface shape is hilly in the south and the north, between flat. The southern boundary is formed by the South China Sea, also to the territory of the city of Taishan heard the upstream Chuanshan archipelago. The northern tip Taishans is touched by the Tan River (潭江) and its flood plain.

The climate is subtropical to tropical. The average January temperature is 10 ° C, the average July temperature of 32 ° C. The annual rainfall amounts to 1940 mm. In the summer there are often typhoons and heavy rain, the dry seasons are fall and winter.

History

Taishan was raised as Xinning (新 宁) during the Ming Dynasty to the community and was under the administration of Xinhui. The name of Taishan bears the city only since 1914. Town charter got Taishan in 1992.

Management

The independent city of Taishan is part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. Adjacent are Yangdong in the West, Enping in the northwest, in the north of Kaiping, Xinhui, and in the east. The city is divided into a road district and 16 large communities; Seat of the city government is the road district Taicheng:

  • Road district Taicheng (台 城 街道);
  • Greater community Dajiang (大 江镇);
  • Greater community Shuibu (水 步 镇);
  • Greater community Sijiu (四九 镇);
  • Greater community Duhu (都 斛 镇);
  • Greater community Chixi (赤 溪镇);
  • Greater community Chonglou (冲 蒌 镇);
  • Greater community Doushan (斗 山镇);
  • Greater community Guanghai (广 海 镇);
  • Greater community Chuandao (川岛 镇);
  • Greater community Duanfen (端 芬 镇);
  • Greater community Haiyan (海宴 镇);
  • Greater community Wencun (汶 村镇);
  • Greater community Sanhe (三合 镇);
  • Greater community Beidou (北 陡 镇);
  • Greater community Shenjing (深井 镇);
  • Large village Baisha (白沙 镇).

Economy

With a GDP per capita of around 12 400 RMB in 2002, Taishan is located in terms of income as in the province of Guangdong mean.

Economic importance on the one hand, the extraction of natural resources such as gold, tin, tungsten, antimony, coal, sulfur, granite, beryl, quartz and silicate rocks. In the forests there are Taishans Masson pines, Zedrachbäume, camphor, kapok and more important of the traditional Chinese medicinal plants. In the forests and wild animals such as barking deer, porcupines or turkeys live.

In agriculture, the cultivation of rice is the most important activity. In addition, peanuts, sugar cane, vegetables and fruit are grown. On the coast, fishing has a certain importance, particularly around the greater community Guanghai.

Significant industrial products of the city are machinery, household appliances, textiles, food, chemical products and ceramics. Also important is the production of electric energy.

On the Chuanshan Islands (川 山 群岛) tourism gets increasingly important. There the natural sandy beaches are equipped for relaxation-seeking urbanites with hotels and entertainment facilities.

Since 2009 there is the Taishan nuclear power plant with the most powerful so far the world's reactors under construction.

It is also since 2009 with Fuwa the world's largest axle manufacturer for commercial vehicles located in Taishan.

Traffic

The city is along the coast of the highway Jiangmen - crosses Yangjiang. North of Taishan runs the Guangzhou highway - Foshan - Yangjiang, which has a connection according to Taishan. There are no rail connections. The Port of Guanghai has a certain importance for trade.

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Enping - Heshan - Jianghai - Kaiping - Pengjiang - Taishan - Xinhui

  • Location in Guangdong
  • District-free city (China)
Administrative divisions of China Chuanshan District Xinhui District Yangdong County Shangchuan Island Heshan, Guangdong Jianghai District Pengjiang District
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