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Jiaojiang District ( Tai-chow dialect: Tsiao-kông K'ü; ) is a district and the seat of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of Chi ...

of Taizhou in

Zhejiang 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 Ji ...

Province, China. It is named after the Jiao River (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 A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

in 1981, it was renamed as Jiaojiang City to avoid confusion with

Haimen Haimen (, Qihai dialect: , Shanghai: ) is a district of Nantong, Jiangsu province, with a population of approximately 1 million. It is located at the opposite side of the Yangtze River to Shanghai and is directly north of Chongming Island except f ...

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 (三甲街道) The only town is Dachen (大陈镇).

Notable people

Ruan Jiqiang 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 Jiang ...

. He attended the Agrarian Revolutionary War in May 1938, joined the New Fourth Army in February 1939 and was admitted to the Communist Party of China in May 1941. He graduated from the second Aviation School of the air force. He participated in the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific T ...

, Chinese civil war and the

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. 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.

References

External links

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