Xinghua () is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

under the administration of Taizhou,

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with it ...

province, China. It is located in the central part of Jiangsu Province. It borders the prefecture-level cities of

Yancheng Yancheng () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. As the city with the largest jurisdictional area in Jiangsu, Yancheng borders Lianyungang to the north, Huai'an to the west, Yangzhou and Tai ...

to the north and east and

Yangzhou Yangzhou, postal romanization Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province (Suzhong), East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, ...

to the west. Xinghua's name () is the abbreviation for "" () which means "prospering (the

Confucian Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or ...

) teaching".

History

In 920, the

Yang Wu Wu (), also referred to as Huainan (), Hongnong (), Southern Wu (), or Yang Wu (楊吳), was one of the Ten Kingdoms in eastern China which was in existence from 907 to 937. Its capital was Jiangdu Municipality () (modern Yangzhou in Jiangsu P ...

state of the

Ten Kingdoms The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (), from 907 to 979, was an era of political upheaval and division in 10th-century Imperial China. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concu ...

separated the northern part of the then Hailing county to establish Xinghua county. The county was downgraded to Zhaoyang township in 1135, but was restored in 1149. In 1987, the county was turned into a city of Yangzhou. The area was under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou until 1996, and then reassign to Taizhou, Jiangsu. Canola field in Xinghua

Administrative divisions

In the present, Xinghua City has 29 towns and 5 townships. ;29 towns ;5 townships

Climate

Education

* Chushui Experimental School

Notable people

* Bi Feiyu, fiction writer *

Fan Zhongyan Fan Zhongyan (5 September 989 – 19 June 1052) from Wu County of Suzhou ( Jiangsu Province, China), courtesy name Xiwen (), ratified as the Duke of Wenzheng () posthumously, and conferred as Duke of Chu () posthumously, was a Chinese poet, p ...

, politician, was once magistrate in Xinghua * Hou Yifan, chess grandmaster, born in Xinghua * Kong Shangren, Qing dynasty dramatist and poet * Li Jitong (1897–1961), botanist and phytophysiologist''30 Years' Review of China's Science & Technology, 1949-1979'' (World Scientific Publishing Co., 1981)
p. 283.
/ref> * Zheng Banqiao, Qing dynasty painter

References

External links

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Official Local Government website
*
"Illustrated Album of Yangzhou Prefecture"
from 1573 to 1620, has illustrations of Xinghua Cities in Jiangsu County-level divisions of Jiangsu Taizhou, Jiangsu {{Jiangsu-geo-stub