Shijing

Town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

() is a

township-level division The administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times, due to China's large population and geographical area. The constitution of China provides for three levels of government. However in practice, there a ...

of Nan'an City, in southern

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

Province,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Geography

Shijing Town is located on the western shore of the narrow Anhai Bay (the estuary of the

Shijing River The Shijing River () is a small river in Fujian Province of China. The tidal estuary it forms when entering the Weitou Bay of the Taiwan Strait is known as the Anhai Bay (). Most of the Shijing River's basin is within the Prefecture-level city of ...

), where it opens into the

Weitou Bay The Weitou dialect (; Jyutping: Waitau Waa) is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It forms part of the Guan–Bao (莞寶片; , Dongguan– Bao'an) branch of Yuehai. It is spoken by older generations in Luohu and Futian districts in Shenzhen, an ...

() of the

Taiwan Strait The Taiwan Strait is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and continental Asia. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide. The Taiwan Strait is itself a s ...

. Administratively, the territory included into Shijing Town forms sort of a southern "panhandle" of Nan'an City, and the only part of Nan'an that is located on the sea coast. Shijing is served by Fujian Provincial Highway 201 (S201), which runs generally parallel to the sea coast.

Administrative divisions

One

residential community A residential community is a community, usually a small town or city, that is composed mostly of residents, as opposed to commercial businesses and/or industrial facilities, all three of which are considered to be the three main types of occup ...

: * Shijing (Shih-ching; ) Twenty-five

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

: * Sunei (), Xiafang (), Lianfeng (), Yuanxia (Yüan-hsia; ), Cujin (), Houdian (Hou-tien; ), Sanxiang (), Linbing (), Yingqian (), Tiandong (), Xianjing (), Laogang (), Qiaotou (), Hemei (), Kuixia (), Xiban (), Gushan (Ku-shan; ), Guoqian (Kuo-ch'ien; ), Yangshan (), Yuanqian (Yüan-ch'ien; ), Cendou / Yindou ( / ), Xidong (Ch'i-tung; ), Jujiang ( / ), Qianban (), Xifu ()

Economy

As the name (Shijing 石井 = "Stone Well") indicates, Shijing, along with the nearby Shuitou, is a major center of stoneworking. Shijing is also a sea port of regional importance (administratively, one of the port areas of the

Port of Quanzhou The Port of Meizhou Bay was created in 2012 by merging the ports of Quanzhou, Meizhou Island and Putian, as part of Fujian Province's rationalization of ports, which cutting down the number of ports in the province into three large consolidated po ...

), involved in the cross-strait trade with Taiwan. Shijing also has the mainland terminal of the so-called "Quan-Jin Ferry" (short for "Quanzhou-Kinmen Ferry"), the regular passenger ferry service to the nearby

Kinmen Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It lies roughly east of the city of Xiamen in Fujian, from which it is separate ...

(Quemoy, Jinmen) Island, held by the Taiwan-based

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

. As of February 2012, this ferry (unlike similar ferries from

Xiamen Xiamen ( , ; ), also known as Amoy (, from Hokkien pronunciation ), is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, ...

) may only be taken by the PRC and ROC citizens, and not by third-country nationals.

References

Township-level divisions of Fujian {{Fujian-geo-stub

Geography

Administrative divisions

Economy

See also

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