Administrative
Division and Natural Resources
Administrative Division
Changzhou has jurisdiction over two county-level cities and
five districts. There are 17 towns, 87 neighborhood committees (community
committees), and 445 villagers’ committees under the jurisdiction of Jintan
city and Liyang city; and Wujin district, Xinbei district, Tianning district,
Zhonglou district, Qishuyan district totally administer 20 subdistrict offices,
20 towns, 217 neighborhood committees (community committees) and 628 villagers’
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°09’ to 32°04’ and east longitude 119°08’ to 120°12’, 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 Changzhou civil airport has scheduled flights to over 20 large and
medium size domestic cities, such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Dalian, Xiamen,
Shenzhen, Haikou and Xi’an, etc.
. 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 4385sq.km,The urban area covers1872sq.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.
Climate
Changzhou lies in middle latitude and near the sea, which
belongs to monsoon of subtropical moist marine climate zone. The annual average
temperature is 16.4℃; It enjoys plenty rainfall and abundant sunshine with total annual
precipitation of 994.8 millimeters and 2035.1 hours for annual sunshine
respectively. A fairly long frostless period averages 237 days a year. The
dominating wind direction around the year is southeast and there are four
distinctively-divided seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter.