Xinghua () is a

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under the administration of Taizhou,

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province, China. It is located in the central part of Jiangsu Province. It borders the

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Yancheng Yancheng (), formerly known as Yandu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern coastal Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. As the city with the largest jurisdictional area in Jiangsu, Yancheng borders Lianyungang to the north, Huai' ...

to the north and east and

Yangzhou Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou, Jiangsu, ...

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, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, religion, theory of government, or way of life. Founded by Confucius ...

) teaching".

History

In 920, the

Yang Wu Wu (), also referred to as Huainan (), Hongnong (), Southern Wu (), or Yang Wu (楊吳), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It existed from 907 to 937 with capital at ...

state of the Ten Kingdoms 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

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

Climate

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Education

* Chushui Experimental School

Notable people

* Bi Feiyu, fiction writer *

Fan Zhongyan Fan Zhongyan (5 September 989 – 19 June 1052), courtesy name Xiwen (), was an accomplished statesman, writer, scholar, and reformer of the northern Song dynasty. After serving multiple regional posts and at the imperial court for over two de ...

, politician, was once magistrate in Xinghua *

Hou Yifan Hou Yifan ( ; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster, three-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is the second highest Elo rating system, rated female player of all time.

, chess grandmaster, born in Xinghua *

Kong Shangren Kong Shangren (; 1648–1718) was a Qing dynasty dramatist and poet best known for his '' chuanqi'' play '' The Peach Blossom Fan''"Frommer's China", Simon Foster et al., 2010, p. 383, about the last days of the Ming dynasty. Born in Qufu, Kong ...

, 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

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External links

* {{in lang, zh}
Official Local Government website
* {{in lang, en, zh}
"Illustrated Album of Yangzhou Prefecture"
from 1573 to 1620, has illustrations of Xinghua {{Jiangsu topics {{County-level divisions of Jiangsu {{authority control Cities in Jiangsu County-level divisions of Jiangsu Taizhou, Jiangsu National Famous Historical and Cultural City {{Jiangsu-geo-stub