Guangde is a county-level city in the southeast of
Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of
Jiangsu to the north and
Zhejiang to the east. It is the easternmost
county-level division of Anhui and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city
Xuancheng within Anhui Province. The city has a population of and an area of . The seat of government is at Taozhou Town.
Guangde has jurisdiction over six towns and ten townships.
Administrative divisions
Guangde City is divided to 5 towns and 4 townships.
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Industry
Guangde provides the terrain for the 5.67-square-kilometer
automobile proving ground () with of test roads, opened on September 22, 2012 and managed by
Shanghai GM and the
Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), both
joint ventures of
SAIC Motor
SAIC Motor Corp., Ltd. (formerly Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Anting, Shanghai. Founded in 1955, it is currently the largest of the " Big Four" state-owned car manu ...
with
GM China.
Climate
Transport
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China National Highway 318;
Guangde Nan Highspeed Train station.
Chinese manned space program
On July 19, 1964 China launched and recovered its first successful experimental biological rocket carrying eight white mice from the
Chinese Academy of Sciences Base 603 launch site in Shijie Town () within the city.
Culture
Prior to the late 19th century, most residents spoke a
Jianghuai Mandarin dialect. Thereafter many people in the southern and eastern parts of the city began to speak
Old Guangde dialect, a
Taihu Wu Chinese dialect closely related to that of
Suzhou dialect
Suzhounese (; Suzhounese: ''sou1 tseu1 ghe2 gho6'' [] ), also known as the Suzhou dialect, is the Varieties of Chinese, variety of Chinese traditionally spoken in the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu, Jiangsu Province, China. Suzhounese is a varie ...
and
Shanghainese
The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the Districts of Shanghai, central districts of the Shanghai, City of Shanghai and its surrounding areas. It is classified as ...
. Most residents also speak the
Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin (), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (), is a Mandarin Chinese language spoken in much of Southwest China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the northe ...
Guangde dialect.
See also
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Chinese space program
References
County-level divisions of Anhui
Xuancheng
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