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| Country | China |
| Province | Jilin |
| County-level divisions | 10 |
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| - Sub-provincial city | 20,532 km² (7,927. A sub-provincial city ( Chinese: 副省级城市 (or deputy-provincial city in the People's Republic of China, is a Prefecture-level city Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES ( Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern See also Administrative divisions of the Republic of China Due to China 's large Population and area the political divisions of China have consisted Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. A sub-provincial city ( Chinese: 副省级城市 (or deputy-provincial city in the People's Republic of China, is a Prefecture-level city Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 4 sq mi) |
| - Urban | 3,616 km² (1,396. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 1 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 222 m (730 ft) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - Sub-provincial city | 7,135,439 |
| - Density | 347. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit A sub-provincial city ( Chinese: 副省级城市 (or deputy-provincial city in the People's Republic of China, is a Prefecture-level city Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 5/km² (900. 1/sq mi) |
| - Urban | 3,225,557 |
| - Urban Density | 892/km² (2,310. 3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard Time (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 130000 |
| Area code(s) | 431 |
| License plate prefixes | 吉A |
| GDP (2004) | CNY 115 billion |
| - per capita | CNY 21,336 (2003) |
| Website: www.changchun.gov.cn (Chinese) | |
Changchun (Traditional Chinese: 長春; simplified Chinese: 长春; Pinyin: Chángchūn) is the capital and largest city of Jilin province, located in the northeast of the People's Republic of China. China standard time or Beijing time is the Time zone observed in the People's Republic of China ( PRC) UTC+8 is a band of Timezones separated from the Greenwich Mean Time by 8 hours The Postal code for the People's Republic of China uses a numeric six-digit System for the whole country A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks The Chinese Telephone Code Plan is the way to group telephone numbers in the mainland of the People's Republic of China. The People's Republic of China issues vehicles Licence plates at its Vehicle Management Offices under the administration of the Ministry of Public Security "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " ( Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern A province, in the context of China, is a translation of sheng ( which is an administrative division Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES It is a sub-provincial city. A sub-provincial city ( Chinese: 副省级城市 (or deputy-provincial city in the People's Republic of China, is a Prefecture-level city The name originated from the Jurchen language. The Jurchens ( were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria ( Northeast China) until the 17th century when they adopted the name Manchu As of 2000, Changchun has a population of 7. 1 million, including counties and county-level cities. The urban districts have a total population of 3. 2 million.
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History
Changchun is a new city with only about 200 years of history. Changchun started as a minor trading town. In 1800, Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty selected a small village on the east bank of the Yitong River and named it "Changchun Ting. " In 1889, it was promoted as "Changchun Fu". Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
It expanded rapidly as the junction between of the Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway and the Russian-owned Chinese Eastern Railway which had different rail gauges, as well as permit licences, from 1905-1935. The was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906 after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905 and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER (also known as the Chinese Far East Railway) was a Railway in northeastern China ( Manchuria) Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Changchun had railway repair shops and branch lines originating in Changchun extended into Korea and Inner Mongolia. Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries a civilization and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. Inner Mongolia ( Mongolian:, Öbür mongɣul; occasionally romanized to Nei Mongol is the Mongol
In 1932 moving from Jilin City (Kirin city) 200 km to the east, Changchun became the capital of Manchukuo, a state in Manchuria. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Jilin City ( is a Prefecture-level city located in Jilin Province in China. Manchukuo (ja [[wikt満州国 満州国]] Manshūkoku lit "State of Manchuria " was a Puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Manchuria ( Romanized Manchu: Manju,, Маньчжурия Mongolian: Манж is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Then known as Hsinking 新京 (Pinyin: Xīnjīng, Wade-Giles: Hsin-ching, Japanese: Shinkyō, English trans. : New Capital), the capital was a well-planned city with broad avenues and modern public works. A new town, planned community or planned city is a City, Town, or Community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically The city underwent rapid expansion in both its economy and infrastructures. From 1931 to 1945 China's last emperor Pu Yi was installed as the Manchukuo government head by the Japanese authority. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Puyi ( ( February 7, 1906 &ndash October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling family was the last Emperor He resided in the Imperial Palace (帝宮) which is now the Museum of the Manchu State Imperial Palace (偽滿皇宫博物院). The Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State ( Simplified Chinese: 偽滿皇宮博物院 Pinyin: Wěi Mǎn Huánggōng Bówùyuàn literally The Fake Illegitimate
Severely damaged during World War II, the city was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1945. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. The Red Army ( Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия R aboche- K rest'yanskaya K rasnaya A rmiya Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Russians maintained a presence in the city after the Chinese civil war until 1956. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kuomintang forces occupied the city in 1946, but were unable to hold the countryside against Chinese Communist forces. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Communist Party of China ( CPC) ( also known as the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP) is the founding and ruling political party of the The city fell to the communists in 1948 after a 12-month-long siege by the People's Liberation Army that resulted in a massive famine with a civilan death toll of 100,000 to 300,000. Renamed Changchun by the People's Republic of China government, it became the capital of Jilin in 1954. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National ( Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) The Changchun Film Studio is also one of the remaining film factories of the era. Changchun Film Group Corporation (Chinese 长春电影集团公司 is a Chinese Film Production company in Changchun, China From the 1950s, it was designated to become a center for China's automotive industry. The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design development manufacture marketing and sale of Motor vehicles In 2007 more than 73 million motor vehicles The famous Red Flag limousines were made in Changchun as were the Liberation (Jiefang) trucks based on a Ford model used in Russia who supplied much of the early manufacturing machinery. Hongqi may refer to Hongqi Tibet Hongqi District, in Xinxiang, Henan, China FAW Hongqi
Changchun hosted the 2007 Winter Asian Games. The 6th Asian Winter Games were held in Changchun, People's Republic of China from January 28 to February 4, 2007.
Administration
The prefecture-level city of Changchun administers 10 county-level divisions, including 6 districts, 3 county-level cities and 1 county. A prefecture-level city ( or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and See also Administrative divisions of the Republic of China Due to China 's large Population and area the political divisions of China have consisted The term district, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. A county-level city ( is a county-level administrative division of Mainland China. In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of 县 ( xiàn)
- Nanguan District (南关区)
- Kuancheng District (宽城区)
- Chaoyang District (朝阳区)
- Erdao District (二道区)
- Lvyuan District (绿园区)
- Shuangyang District (双阳区)
- Jiutai City (九台市)
- Yushu City (榆树市)
- Denghui City (德惠市)
- Nong'an County (农安县)
Changchun is the Jilin Province capital, situated at the Northeast China Songliao Plain center. Changchun ( is the capital and largest city of Jilin province, located in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, in the centre of the Jiutai (九台 is a County-level city administered by Changchun in Jilin province of the People's Republic of China. Yushu ( Simplified: 榆树 Pinyin: Yúshù is a town in Jilin province in northeastern China. It is the politics, the economy, the culture, the transportation and the financial center of Jilin Province. The total area is 20,604 square kilometers, the population is 7,480,000.
Economy
Changchun has a complete industrial system with 128 categories and over 3,000 types of products. As Changchun's main industry, the manufacturing of transportation facilities and machinery such as those of automobiles, passenger trains, and tractors has developed very well and its total output constitutes, respectively, 1/5, 1/2, and 1/10 of that of the nation's. Industries such as machinery, electronics, optics, chemistry, medicine, textile, metallurgy, building materials and foodstuffs all assume their own features and advantages.
The GDP per capita was ¥21336 (ca. US$2580) in 2003, ranked no. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. This list hopes to rank cities of the People's Republic of China by GDP Per capita in Renminbi ( 人[[wikt 民|民]] 币) aka yuan 52 among 659 Chinese cities.
In order to expand the opening of the city to the world, Changchun hosts many large-scale fairs and exhibitions yearly: Changchun International Automobile Fair, Changchun Film Festival, Changchun Agricultural Fair, Education Exhibition and Sculpture Exhibition and so on. Those international fairs and exhibitions already become Changchun's symbol to the outside world.
Changchun is an open city. Since opening to the outside world, it has ties with the American city of Flynt, the English city of Birmingham, and the Japanese city of Sendai and so on with 16 cities for friendship city. It establishes an economic relationship with more than 60 countries and areas. It establishs many overseas companies and representative offices in more than 20 countries and areas. Many of these companies are listed in American or Hong Kong stock exchanges.
Changchun is the biggest automobile research and development center of China. The first Chinese truck and car was born in Changchun. FAW(First Automotive Works) group has 6 series, with more than 600 varieties. One series is Red Flag, the others are derived from Audi and Toyota respectively. FAW group is the first Chinese automobile company on the Fortune 500 companies list.
Jilin Maize Belt is one of the most important commodity grain bases in China. Maize, soybean, paddy rice and sorghum are Changchun's typical agricultural products. Annual grain output is up to 7,500,000 tons. Because the high volume grain output, Aquaculture is well developed in Changchun. Global Bio-Chem Technology Group Company is the biggest corn refined company in Asia, and No. 3 in the world. It's annual output of lysine is more than 400,000 tons, shared mostly in the world market. Haoyue Beef is slaughtering 500,000 cows yearly, much of the beef is exported to the Islamic world. Changchun plans 42 square kilometer areas to developing corn ethanol and downstream products. Agricultural Development Bank of China is heavily supporting Changchun's agriculture industry. China's optoelectronic industry is shaped in Changchun.
Thanks to China's "Re-Development of the Old Industry Bases in Northeast" National Project, Changchun has a big opportunity to development itself. Changchun is planning to shape itself as a big player in automobile industry, a organic & natural products base, a optoelectronic industry base and a Northeast China transportation hub before 2010. And also to be a more important role in the revitalized Northeast China processes.
Changchun is situated at Northeast Asia's geometric center. South Liaodong peninsula coastline, north to Russia and Eastern Europe, east to North Korea, South Korea, Russia, and west to Mongolia. Changchun is a important transportation and communication hub of Northeast China.
Universities and Colleges
- Jilin University (吉林大學)
- Northeast Normal University (東北師范大學)
- Changchun University of Technology (長春工業大學)
Sister cities
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Flint, Michigan
Novi Sad, Serbia
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Ulsan, South Korea (since 1994)- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Žilina, Slovakia
See also
External links
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