Zibo

Zibo (淄博市) is a prefecture -level city in the Chinese province of Shandong. The administrative area of Zibo has an area of 5938 km ² and approximately 4.12 million inhabitants ( end of 2003). The population density is just under 694 inhabitants / km ². Zibo is located on the Yellow River to 37 ° 13 ' N.Br. and 118 ° 04 ' ö.L.

Administrative Divisions

At county level, Zibo is composed of five districts and three counties. These are:

City Zhangdian (张店区), 360 km ², 690,000 inhabitants, center, seat of the city government;
City Zichuan (淄川区), 999 km ², 670,000 inhabitants;
Municipality BOSHAN (博山区), 682 km ², 470,000 inhabitants;
Linzi township (临淄区), 668 km ², 590,000 inhabitants;
City Zhoucun (周村区), 263 km ², 310,000 inhabitants;
Huantai County (桓台县), 499 km ², 480,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Suozhen (索镇镇);
Circle Gaoqing (高青县), 830 km ², 360,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Tianzhen (田镇镇);
Yiyuan county (沂源县), 1637 km ², 550,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Nanma (南麻镇).

History

Zibo City was created in 1949 by merging the cities and Zichuan BOSHAN whose names were merged to Zibo. In 1954 the city was expanded by Zhangdian in the north and the administrative center was relocated there.

Linzi was at the time of the Spring and Autumn Annals and the time of the Warring States Period, from 384 BC to 221 BC, the capital of the State of Qi (齐; pinyin: qi).

The area of the former City Zichuan was the home of the poet Pu Songling (1640-1715), who became famous primarily for his eerie stories from Liao Zhai ( Liao Zhai Zhi Yi ).

In 1937 the then independent cities Zichuan, BOSHAN and Zhangdian were taken during the second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ) of Japan, then began the extensive industrialization of the region under Japanese rule.

Zibo is twinned with 27 cities, among other Erie (United States ), La Roche ( France), Kamo (Japan) and Novgorod in Russia.

Economy

Zibo is characterized traditionally been a commercial, early saw the city as a center of silk weaving. Today Zibo is one of the 50 economically strongest cities in China. The city is situated on a large coal reserves, thereby caused the industrial focus is on coal chemicals, also in ceramics and mechanical engineering. Zibo unifies especially heavy industry. The light industry and food production is mainly found in Zhangdian.

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