铜陵市
Tónglíng Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
City Seat	Tongguanshan District (30°56′N, 117°46′E)
Area	1,113 km²
Population	700000
GDP - Total - Per Capita	¥13. See also Administrative divisions of the Republic of China Due to China 's large Population and area the political divisions of China have consisted A prefecture-level city ( or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and The seat of government is the location of the government for a political entity. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology 672 (2004) ¥
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	4
Township-level divisions
CPC Committee Secretary	Shen Suli (沈素琍)
Mayor	Chen Liangping (陈良平)
Area code	562
Postal Code	244000 (Urban center) 244100 (Tongling County)
License Plate Prefix	皖G

Tongling (simplified Chinese: 铜陵; traditional Chinese: 銅陵; pinyin: Tónglíng; Wade-Giles: T'ung-ling; former names: Tunglinghsien, Tungkwanshan; literally "Copper Hillock") is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province, People's Republic of China. The following is a list of ethnic groups in China where "China" is taken to mean areas controlled by either of the two states using "China" in their formal Han Chinese ( are an Ethnic group native to China and by most modern definitions the largest single Ethnic group in the world. See also Administrative divisions of the Republic of China Due to China 's large Population and area the political divisions of China have consisted 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 Communist Party of China ( CPC) ( also known as the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP) is the founding and ruling political party of the A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The Chinese Telephone Code Plan is the way to group telephone numbers in the mainland of the People's Republic of China. The Postal code for the People's Republic of China uses a numeric six-digit System for the whole country The People's Republic of China issues vehicles Licence plates at its Vehicle Management Offices under the administration of the Ministry of Public Security Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use Wade-Giles (ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz) sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system (phonetic notation and Transcription) for the Mandarin A prefecture-level city ( or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and Anhui (in Chinese: 安徽 Ānhuī) is a province of the People's Republic of China. 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 A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Chaohu to the north, Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the southwest and Anqing to the west. ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo Administration The Prefecture-level city of Chaohu administers 5 county-level divisions, including 1 districts and 4 counties. WUHU (1071 FM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format Administration The Prefecture-level city of Chizhou administers 4 county-level divisions, including 1 district and 3 counties. Administration The Prefecture-level city of Anqing administers 11 county-level divisions, including 3 districts, 1 County-level city

The asteroid 12418 Tongling was named after the city.

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Yantai administers 4 county-level divisions, including 3 districts 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. In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of 县 ( xiàn)

• Tongguanshan District (铜官山区)
• Shizishan District (狮子山区)
• Jiao District (郊区)
• Tongling County (铜陵县)

History

Tongling has been famous as a beautiful mountain city since its origins in the Han dynasty over 1500 years ago. The Han Dynasty ( 206 BC–220 AD followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. Owing to its copper and tin deposits, it was an important center in the past for bronze production. The scale of industrial activity gradually increased through the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, the Japanese occupation of 1938-45, and especially under the Communist government since 1949. The Ming Dynasty ( or Empire of the Great Ming ( was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol -led Not to be confused with Qin Dynasty, the first dynasty of Imperial China The Communist Party of China ( CPC) ( also known as the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP) is the founding and ruling political party of the

Economy

Today the city's industrial base still revolves around the several nearby copper mines and copper processing operations. The local mineral resources also include : iron, coal, gold, silver,tin, Iron sulfide, plus more than twenty other rare minerals associated with them such as nickel, cadmium, gallium, molybdenum, germanium and selenium. Other important industries include chemical works, textiles, building materials, electronics, machinery and food processing. Long a hub of water transportation, in 1995 Tongling became the site of Anhui Province's first highway bridge spanning the Yangtze River.

Although Tongling City is mostly mountainous, the surrounding flatlands are rich agricultural regions producing rice, wheat, cotton, beans, garlic , herbal medicines and ginger. Large amounts of fish are also harvested in the region.

Tongling is the center for conservation efforts to preserve the last remaining Yangtze freshwater dolphins. The ( ( Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind" Two semi-natural reserves have been established in the Tongling area, in the Tongling and Shishou oxbow lakes, but as yet no dolphins have been successfully captured and moved from the river into the lakes.

Tongling has developed at a rapid speed in the past 5 years,ie 2003 to 2007. The average GDP per capital has reached RMB33000 which is the second in Anhui province. And the increasing rate is 17%,far more than the average increasing rate of the whole province which is 12. 8%. And it aims to achieve $10000 GDP per capital in 2012

Culture

The famous poet of Tang Dynasty, Li Bai (c. 700–762, also known as Li Po) praised the beauty and richness of Tongling.

Relationships

Tongling-City has established relations to several cities throughout the world. E. g. a contract of town-twinning with the city of Marbach am Neckar in Germany was signed in 2005 after 15 years of friendly contacts. Marbach am Neckar (pop ca 15000 is a town on the river Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. One lady citizen of Marbach am Neckar has been awarded honorary citizenship of Tongling City in 2005, rewarding restless efforts for keeping up the town-twinning.

External links

• Government website of Tongling (in Simplified Chinese)