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Jiaojiang District ( Tai-chow dialect: Tsiao-kông K'ü; ) is a district and the seat of the prefecture-level city of Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, China. It is named after the
Jiao River Jiao may refer to: * Horn (Chinese constellation), or Jiao (角宿), a Chinese constellation * Jiaolong, or Jiao (蛟), a Chinese dragon * Jiao (currency) (角), a unit of currency in China, one-tenth of a Chinese yuan or dollar * Jiao (surname) ...
(Jiaojiang in Chinese). The district has its mainland area of , and its islands area is . The total area is . As of 2003, the population was approximately 471,500. It has an average annual precipitation of . The average temperature in January is 6 °C, in July it is 28 °C, and average annual temperature is 17 °C. Until 1980, the district was under the administration of Huangyan and was called Haimen District. When Haimen was upgraded to a county-level city in 1981, it was renamed as Jiaojiang City to avoid confusion with Haimen in Jiangsu province. In 1994, the prefecture-level city of Taizhou was established, and Jiaojiang City became the main district of Taizhou.


Administrative divisions

Subdistricts: * Haimen Subdistrict (海门街道), Baiyun Subdistrict (白云街道), Jiazhi Subdistrict (葭沚街道), Zhang'an Subdistrict (章安街道), Hongjia Subdistrict (洪家街道), Xiachen Subdistrict (下陈街道), Qiansuo Subdistrict (前所街道),
Sanjia Subdistrict Sanjia could refer to the following places in China: ;Towns * Sanjia, Yangchun (三甲镇), Guangdong *Sanjia, Dongfang, Hainan (三家镇) * Sanjia, Gaoping (三甲镇), Shanxi * Sanjia, Suining (三家镇), in Anju District, Suining, Sichuan ;To ...
(三甲街道) The only town is Dachen (大陈镇).


Notable people

Ruan Jiqiang Ruan may refer to: Buildings *Ruan Center, office building in Des Moines, Iowa *John Ruan House, historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Places *Ruan, County Clare, Ireland *Ruan, Loiret, France *Mont Ruan, Switzerland *Ruan Major and Ru ...
was born in 1923 in Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City,
Zhejiang Province Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangs ...
. He attended the
Agrarian Revolutionary War Agrarian means pertaining to agriculture, farmland, or rural areas. Agrarian may refer to: Political philosophy * Agrarianism * Agrarian law, Roman laws regulating the division of the public lands *Agrarian reform *Agrarian socialism Society ...
in May 1938, joined the New Fourth Army in February 1939 and was admitted to the Chinese Communist Party in May 1941. He graduated from the second Aviation School of the air force. He participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. He was awarded the three-level Medal of independence and freedom, the three-level Medal of liberation, and the medal of independent merit and honor. He is a retired cadre at the Deputy military level. He is now the director of the painting and calligraphy branch of the Arctic Temple of the general staff, and a senior art consultant of China Sanwei painting and Calligraphy Academy.


See also

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Taizhou Museum The Taizhou Museum (in Chinese language, Chinese: ), also known as Taizhou City Museum, abbreviated as Tai Bo, is a comprehensive municipal museum in Taizhou, Zhejiang, Taizhou City, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Province, China. It had a trial opening on ...
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Taizhou Library The Taizhou City Library (in ), also known as Taizhou Library (), abbreviated as Tai Tu (), is a municipal-level public library located in Taizhou, Zhejiang, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, People's Republic of China. It is supervised by the Taizhou Mu ...


References


External links

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Introduction of Jiaojiang District
Districts of Zhejiang Taizhou, Zhejiang {{Zhejiang-geo-stub