Zhucheng
Zhucheng (Chinese: 诸城; pinyin: Zhūchéng) is a county-level city in Weifang prefecture, Shandong Province, China. It has a population of 1.06 million. It was originally known as Langya (琅琊). It is about an hour's drive from Qingdao city. Zhucheng was upgraded to a county-level city in 1987 and is administered as a provincial-level economic development district, with jurisdiction over 20 towns (镇, zhen). It borders the international city of kites—Weifang in the north, the world famous city—Qingdao in the east, port city—Rizhao in the south. It is the major traffic hub of Shandong Peninsula. The railway from Jiaozhou in Shandong to Xinyi city in Jiangsu and Jinan-Qingdao Expressway southbound lane both cross Zhucheng City. Six main street in the city extending in all directions. It costs only one hour to go to the two big port cities Qingdao and Rizhao, and two airports in Qingdao and Weifang.
The major ethnic groups comprising the city include Han Chinese (99.7%), Manchu (0.1%), Korean (0.1%) and Hui (0.1%). The city has a Christian population of approximately of 19,000 (1.8%).
Zhucheng City is well known as a land of long history and a birth place of creative minds and gifted talents. It gained the name after the birth of Shun, who is a great ancient King, in a village called Zhufeng in the north of the city. It was set counties in Han Dynasty and it also was the seat of Mizhou in Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo, who was a mighty poet, worked there as Taishou for two years, writing the famous poem----“Thinking of You – when will the moon be clear and bright”; in modern China, there were Wang Jinmei who was a representative for the Fist National People’s Congress(NPC), Zhang Kejia who was a famous poem, and Wang Tongzhao, Tao Dun and Wang Yuanjian who were great master in literature. The Song dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan was born in Zhucheng (which was then named Dongwu). It was also the birthplace of Mao Zedong's last wife and leader of the Gang of Four, Jiang Qing. Zhao Shucong 赵树丛, vice-governor of Anhui Province is a native of Zhucheng.
There are 1.6 million mu of arable land and 600 million cubic meters of water resources. More than 20 kinds of mineral resources have been proven there, and the reserves are estimated to be more than 130 million tons, of which zeolite rochs, alunite and rutile are unique in Shandong and have great value to explore.
The Zhucheng Industrial Park was approved by the Shandong Provincial Government in 1992. Its total area spans 25 square kilometres (9.7 sq mi). The National Highway 206 which runs through it from south to north, and the city is linked by the Jiaoxin Railway Station, which connects it to Qingdao, 60 kilometres (37 mi) east, Rizhao, 60 kilometres (37 mi) south, and Weifang city, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north. As of 2001, industries based at the zone included food processing, chemicals, building materials, textiles and electromechanical products, and 2001 annual total industrial output was 2 billion yuan, with the added industrial value of 350 million yuan. For 2001, exports were US$68.92 million, and revenue was 83.17 million yuan.
The three leading industries, automobile and auto parts, food processing, and textiles and clothing, are successfully founded, and the output value and taxes accounted for more than 85% separately in the total industry of the city. At the same time, the city focus on the development of such emerging industry as fine chemical industry, equipment manufacturing, electronic information, paper packaging, wooden furniture and building materials, so a new economic growth point is coming into being.
It is the birthplace of the industrialization of agriculture, and it is also the production base of grain, tobacco and lean pig in the whole country. Twelve leadings industries have been developed, as chickens, pigs, cured tobacco, cereals and oil, vegetables, cotton, fresh water aquaculture, silkworm, mushroom and marigold, etc. The per-capita net income of farmers is 7701 yuan, growing by 13.5 % over last year.
Zhucheng has been an important site for dinosaur excavation since 1960. The local community is known to use calcium rich fossils for traditional village remedies used to treat muscle cramps and other minor ailments. On December 31, 2008, palaeontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of Chinese Academy of Sciences announced they have unearthed 7,600 dinosaur fossils since March 2008 around Zhucheng.
(Beberapa foto untuk dikongsikan sepanjang ambo berada di Zhucheng, China pada Disember 2008)
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1. http://www.zhucheng.gov.cn/zc/english/index.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhucheng
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