Rugao () is a

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under the administration of

Nantong Nantong (; alternate names: Nan-t'ung, Nantung, Tongzhou, or Tungchow; Qihai dialect: ) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jiangsu province of China, province, China. Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, near the river mouth. ...

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province,

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, located in the

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on the northern (left) bank of the

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History

In 411, the western part of then Hailing ( Taizhou) was separated from the county to create Rugao county, which named after a coastal village. During

Sui dynasty The Sui dynasty (, ) was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that lasted from 581 to 618. The Sui unified the Northern and Southern dynasties, thus ending the long period of division following the fall of the Western Jin dynasty, and layi ...

, the county was merged into Ninghai county. Restored in 952, the county was transferred to then Tongzhou in 1724. Around the 1930s, Rugao was the most populous county in then Jiangsu province. Two county governments of the

New Fourth Army The New Fourth Army () was a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China established in 1937. In contrast to most of the National Revolutionary Army, it was controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and not by the ruling Ku ...

were established in the then county: Ruxi (literally Western Rugao) and Rugao (1940–5, was renamed as

Rudong Rudong County () is under the administration of Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, and lies on the Yellow Sea coast. It administers 14 towns and five districts. The 14 towns are Juegang, Matang, Fengli, Caobu, Chahe, Shuangdian, Xindian, Hekou, ...

by the CPC in November 1945 ), while the Tongzhou-Yangzhou Canal marked the boundary between the two regions, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Ruxi succeed to the designation Rugao in 1945, the reshuffling of territory came true only in January 1949, when the CPC totally controlled the area. On 1 June 1990, with approval of the State Council, Rugao was turned into a

, which went into effect in 1991.

Administrative divisions

In the present, Rugao City has one subdistrict and 19 towns. ;1 subdistrict *

Rucheng Rucheng County () is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chenzhou. Located in the southeastern corner of the province, the county is bordered to the northwest by Yizhang County, to the ...

() ;19 towns

Climate

Education

* Baipu Middle school (1950)

Tourism

* Shuihui Garden *Lingwei Taoist Temple * Red Army Memorial Museum

Notable people

* Henry Lee, criminologist *Zhu Qianhua, writer *

Huang Beijia Huang Beijia (; born 1955) is a Chinese writer of fiction for adults and younger readers. Biography Huang Beijia was born in 1955, in Rugao, Jiangsu Province, China. She started writing in 1972 and her first works were published in 1973, focusin ...

, writer *

Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang (; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the H ...

, biophysicist *

Zhu Meifang Zhu Meifang (; born August 1965) is a Chinese materials scientist, former vice-president of Donghua University, and currently serving as its dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering. Education Zhu was born in Rugao, Jiangsu in August ...

, materials scientist

References

External links

Rugao government

Rugao City English guide
(Jiangsu.NET)
"Illustrated Album of Yangzhou Prefecture"
from 1573 to 1620, has illustrations of Rugao Cities in Jiangsu Nantong County-level divisions of Jiangsu {{Jiangsu-stub