Nanhu District () is a district in

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of China. Its former name was Xiucheng District (), and it changed to current name on 17 May 2005. Total area is , and total population is 450,000 in 2001. At the end of 2013, the number of households registered in Nanhu District

Population

According to administrative divisions was 168,982, with a population of 48,905, an increase of 1.2% over the previous year. Among them, the non-agricultural population was 340,708, an increase of 1.7% over the previous year. The annual birth rate is 8.64%, the mortality rate is 6.45%, the natural population growth rate is 2.19%, and the family planning rate is 98.81%.

Transportation

Nanhu District is surrounded by

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Shanghai Pudong International Airport Shanghai Pudong International Airport is one of two international airports serving Shanghai and a major aviation hub of East Asia. Pudong Airport serves both international flights and a smaller number of domestic fights, while the city's othe ...

Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport is the principal airport serving Hangzhou, a major city in the Yangtze River Delta region and the capital of Zhejiang Province, China.

and

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. It is also close to the

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, Beilun Port and Zhangpu Port, as well as Shanghai–Changzhou Expressway and

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. (Pu) Jia (Xing) Su (State) Expressway and three expressways connecting Shanghai to Ningbo's Hangzhou Bay Bridge. The Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway Double Line,

China National Highway 320 China National Highway 320 (G320) runs southwest from Shanghai through the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guizhou before ending in Ruili, Yunnan at the Sino–Burmese border. It is in length.Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal The Grand Canal, known to the Chinese as the Jing–Hang Grand Canal (, or more commonly, as the「大运河」("Grand Canal")), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest canal or artificial river in the world. Starting in Beijing, it passes ...

run through the whole area of Nanhu District. Among them, there are more than 80 pairs of passenger and freight trains on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, and more than 100,000 passengers are transported daily, and more than 50,000 tons of goods are sent. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is perennial. It is a 500-ton ship and is connected to the

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Port and the railway transit port by a river network.

Administration

Nanhu District is divided into 13 township-level towns or subdistricts (街道), including five inner subdistricts, four outer subdistricts and four towns. Inner subdistricts: *Jianshe (建设) *Jiefang (解放) *Xinjia (新嘉) *Xinxing (新兴) *Nanhu Outer subdistricts: *Chengnan (城南) *Changshui (长水) *Dongzha (东栅) *Qixin (七星) Towns: *Yuxin *Fengqiao *Xinfeng *Daqiao

External links

Official website of Nanhu District Government
{{authority control Districts of Zhejiang Jiaxing