Guangde is a county-level city in the southeast of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of

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to the north and

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to the east. It is the easternmost county-level division of Anhui and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city Xuancheng within Anhui Province. The city has a population of and an area of . The seat of government is at Taozhou Town. Guangde has jurisdiction over six towns and ten townships.

Administrative divisions

Guangde City is divided to 5 towns and 4 townships. ;Towns ;Townships

Industry

Guangde provides the terrain for the 5.67-square-kilometer automobile proving ground () with of test roads, opened on September 22, 2012 and managed by Shanghai GM and the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), both

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with GM China.

Climate

Transport

* China National Highway 318; Guangde Nan Highspeed Train station.

Chinese manned space program

On July 19, 1964 China launched and recovered its first successful experimental biological rocket carrying eight white mice from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Base 603 launch site in Shijie Town () within the city.

Culture

Prior to the late 19th century, most residents spoke a Jianghuai Mandarin dialect. Thereafter many people in the southern and eastern parts of the city began to speak Old Guangde dialect, a

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dialect closely related to that of Suzhou dialect and Shanghainese. Most residents also speak the Southwestern Mandarin Guangde dialect.

References

County-level divisions of Anhui Xuancheng {{Xuancheng-geo-stub