Administrative Division and Natural Resources

Administrative Division

Changzhou has under its jurisdiction Liyang County-city, Jintan District, Wujin District, Xinbei District, Tianning District and Zhonglou District. Liyang County-city has under its jurisdiction 10 towns, 1 Subdistrict 51 community committees and 175 village committees. Jintan District, Wujin District, Xinbei District, Tianning District and Zhonglou District have under their jurisdiction 24 sub-districts, 26 towns, 343 community committees and 470 village committees.

Location

Changzhou, located in the southeast of Jiangsu province and the central section of Shanghai-Nanjing railway, belongs to the coastal economic open zone. Between north latitude 31¡ã09' to 32¡ã04' and east longitude 119¡ã08' to 120¡ã12', bordering the great Yangtze River in the north, Anhui province in the south and facing Taihu Lake and Wuxi city in the east and neighboring Nanjing city, Zhenjiang city in the west.

Changzhou is easily accessed by water, land and air since it is traversed by railways and expressways, including Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing expressway, Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway, Yangtze Riverside Expressway, Wuxi-Yixing Expressway,Yangzhou-Liyang Expressway, National Highway 312 and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal£» Besides, it owns the crisscross network of waters, connecting Yangtze River and leading to the sea. Changzhou Port of the Yangtze River is listed as the state category-1 port; and the Changzhou Airport has air routes to over 30 cities both in China and abroad.

Topography

The relief type of Changzhou is combined with plain and hills and polders. It has Tianmu Mountain ranges in the south, Maoshan Mountain ranges in the west, Tailing edge of Ningzhen Mountain in the north, vast plain and polder in the central section and east. The terrain is relatively higher in southwest and relatively lower in the northeast with a difference of 1.5¡«2 meters.

Area

The total area of Changzhou is 4372sq.km,The urban area covers2838sq.km.

Rivers

The rivers cross the city in a crisscross pattern, and lakes spread all over the city like the stars in the sky and scattered like the pieces on a chessboard.There are three famous natural lakes, such as Taohu Lake (Changdang Lake), Gehu Lake, Taihu Lake and two artificial reservoirs, namely, Shahe (Tianmu), Daxi reservoirs. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal goes through the city properly with many branches interlinked with rivers, which forms the water system network of canal, rivers interlinked and three lakes connected.