Taozhuang is a town of
Jiashan County
Jiashan County () is a county in the north of Zhejiang Province, bordering Shanghai to the northeast and Jiangsu province to the north. It is administered by the prefecture-level city of Jiaxing. Jiashan is nicknamed "The Land of Fish and Rice", ...
,
Zhejiang Province,
China. Located in the northwest of the county, Taozhuang is famous for
Lake Fenhu and its steel market.
History
Name
Taozhuang was known as Liuxi (柳溪). During the Shaoxing Era of the reign of the
Emperor Gaozong of Song
Emperor Gaozong of Song (12 June 1107 – 9 November 1187), personal name Zhao Gou, courtesy name Deji, was the tenth emperor of the Song dynasty and the first of the Southern Song period, ruling between 1127 and 1162 and retaining power as re ...
(1131 - 1162), an officer called Tao Wenwo (陶文斡) migrated here from
Suzhou and built a manor house, so the name changed to Taozhuang.
Recent
Fenyu was merged with Taozhuang in 1999.
Administration
Taozhuang is divided into 1 community, 9 villages and 1 Farms.
* Ｔaozhuang (陶庄)
* Taozhong (陶中)
* Jinhu (金湖)
* Hubin (湖滨)
* Fenyu (汾玉)
* Fenhu (汾湖)
* Fennan (汾南)
* Lisheng (利生)
* Xiangsheng (翔胜)
Economy
Transport
* The county road Ping-Li (
Pinghu
Pinghu is a county-level city in the east of Jiaxing's administrative area, in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, bordering Shanghai to the northeast. It sits next to the East China Sea and the north shore of Hangzhou Bay. Prior to the Ming ...
to Lili) Road is across the town from east to west.
* The Chang-Jia High Way (
Changshu to
Jiaxing
Jiaxing (), alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China. Lying on the Grand Canal of China, Jiaxing borders Hangzhou to the southwest, Huzhou to the west, Shanghai to the northeast, and the p ...
) is being built.
* The River Taipu(太浦河) is in the north, through Lake Fenhu, which can reach the
Great Canal and
Huangpu River.
Township-level divisions of Zhejiang
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