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 o ...

() is a township-level division 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 ...

Province,

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Geography

Shijing Town is located on the western shore of the narrow Anhai Bay (the estuary of the Shijing River), where it opens into the Weitou Bay () 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 ...

. 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 o ...

: * 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), 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 separat ...

(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 northeas ...

. 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' ...

) 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

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