The Yangtze River is the longest river in China, it originates in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, passes through the western Sichuan Plateau, crosses the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, passes through the Three Gorges region, and finally flows into the Jianghan Plain, a total distance of more than 6,300 kilometers, and finally joins Chongming Island in the East China Sea.
The Yangtze River is narrow in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River due to its steep terrain, and the narrowest part is only less than 50 meters wide in the Tiger Leaping Gorge. As it flows into the Jianghan Plain, the river gradually widens, with an average width of 4 to 5 kilometers, and even reaches 60 or 70 kilometers when approaching the estuary, showing a spectacular river and sea landscape.
What is surprising is that in the turbulence of the Yangtze River, there is a city, surrounded by the river, and she is the only sandbar city in my country - Yangzhong!
The Yangtze River is called Tongtian River after the confluence of the Qu River and the Tuotuo River, and is renamed the Jinsha River after passing through Yushu in Qinghai. After Yibin joins the Minjiang River, it is officially called the Yangtze River. The section of the Yangtze River below Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is called the Yangtze River, and the name of Yangzhong is derived from the Yangtze River!Yangzhong - in the Yangtze River!
Yangzhong, as a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is located on the east bank of the Yangtze River, bordering Yangzhou and Taizhou in the north and Changzhou in the south. It is completely located in the middle of the Yangtze River, consisting of four Jiangxin islands: Taipingzhou, Zhongxinsha, Xisha Island and Leigong Island, and is the only sandbar city in ChinaAlthough Shanghai's Chongming Island is also on a sandbank, its Chongming District has been converted into a municipal district and is no longer an independent city.
Yangzhong City is about 40 kilometers long from north to south, about 7 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of 332 square kilometers, of which 228 square kilometers are land, and the current administrative division has 4 towns and 2 streets, with a population of about 300,000.
The city is surrounded by the Yangtze River, Taipingzhou is the largest island in the middle of the Yangtze River and the largest island in Jiangsu Province, covering an area of about 300 square kilometers and with about 280,000 residents.
Lei Gong Island is located in the northern part of Taiping Chau, and the main channel of the Yangtze River passes through this island. Xisha Island, also known as "Xiaopaosha", is located in the Jiajiang River between Yangzhong Island and Zhenjiang New Area, and the central sand is the second largest island in Yangzhong City, also known as Xilai Bridge, located in the south of Yangzhong Island near Changzhou.
Although Yangzhong is located in the middle of the Yangtze River, its history is closely linked to the Yellow River. The Yellow River and Yangzhong are thousands of miles apart, but how are they connected?It can be said that the formation of the four islands in Yangzhong is inextricably linked with the Yellow River!
The Yellow River has had frequent floods in history, and has been diverted southward many times, and even seized the passage of the Huai River into the sea
In 1128, in the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River was diverted to the south again, and its flood washed into the Huai River channel, bringing a large amount of sediment and silting up on the Huai River channel year by year.
In 1495, in the eighth year of Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, the old road of the Huai River below Huaiyin was completely silted up by sediment, and the Huai River water of "no road to pass" was surging, forming a lake in the east of Xuyi, that is, today's Hongze Lake. The lake continued to overflow southward, eventually rushing into the Yangtze River at Sanjiangying in YangzhouThe Yellow River, the Huai River, and the Yangtze River present a spectacular scene of the confluence of three rivers!
In the Song Dynasty, Yangzhong was just a small sandbar in the Yangtze River, which was called Xiaosha at the time. After the Huanghuai River system was injected into the Yangtze River, it carried a large amount of sediment and began to deposit, accelerating the process of Yangzhong becoming land, and the area of the sandbar expanded year by yearIn the fifth year of Xianfeng, the Yellow River returned to the north, the sandbar gradually stabilized, and the land in Yangzhong was basically formed, forming a large sandbar of nearly 300 square kilometers, named Taipingzhou. Subsequently, Zhongsha and Lei Gong Island also appeared one after another.
In the last years of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the population on Taipingzhou was relatively dense, and the governor of Liangjiang reported to the imperial court that it proposed to set up a Taiping Hall in Taipingzhou, which was subordinate to Zhenjiang Prefecture. In the third year of Xuantong, the Taiping Hall was renamed Taiping County. **In 3 years, in order to avoid the same name as Taiping County in Anhui, Zhejiang and other provinces, it was renamed Yangzhong County, which means "in the Yangtze River".
On April 22, 1949, the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and liberated the entire territory of Yangzhong. On May 18, 1994, the county was reorganized into a city and renamed Yangzhong City.
As the smallest county-level city in Jiangsu Province, Yangzhong has a small area and a sparse population, but its economic strength cannot be ignored
As a well-known "photovoltaic island" and "electric island" in China, Yangzhong has a developed modern manufacturing industry and is an important part of the "Yangtze River Manufacturing Corridor".Intelligent electrical, new energy, auto parts and port equipment manufacturing are its industrial pillars
Over the years, it has been ranked among the top 100 counties in China's economy, China's top 100 industrial counties and China's top 100 innovative counties
Yangzhong is small and rich, accumulating rich wealth, even in the rich Jiangsu Province. It is one of the first nine counties and cities in the province to achieve a moderately prosperous level, and in 2021, the per capita GDP will reach 170,000 yuan, ranking fifth in the province and reaching the level of a moderately developed country!In the fiercely competitive Jiangsu Province, it is not easy for Yangzhong, a small place, to achieve such results!
Yangzhong is located in the first humid climate zone, with beautiful environment, pleasant climate, vertical and horizontal waterways, vast wetlands, and is known as the "hometown of puffer fish" and "the pearl of the river".
Yangzhong, which is surrounded by the Yangtze River on all sides, has abundant resources of fresh river species, among which saury, anchovy and puffer fish are the famous "Yangzhong Three Fresh", showing the essence of Yangzhong's food culture.
Because the land in Yangzhong was formed relatively late, there are not many historical sites, and the main landscape is modern landscape. Wetland attractions such as Yangzhong Garden Expo Park, Binjiang Wetland Park and Yangtze River Fishery Cultural and Ecological Park have become the main landscapes.
Taiping Temple is located in Shuangyue Village, Sanmao Town, Yangzhong City, originally named Xia Dongyue Temple, built in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 300 years. The temple once had more than 100 halls, but it was severely damaged during the "Cultural Revolution", and now only one apse is preserved.
In 1995, the temple was rebuilt and renamed Taiping Temple. The newly built Daxiong Treasure Hall covers an area of 3,360 square meters, adopts the architectural style of the late Qing Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River with glazed roof, carved beams and painted buildings, and the eaves and corners, which is majestic and magnificent, and is one of the largest temples in the local scale, and has unique characteristics in the county-level temples in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
Yangzhong is known as the "hometown of puffer fish", and there is a spectacular puffer fish tower on Xisha Island, showing a golden light, shaking its head and tail in the shape of a "big pufferfish". The brass is 90 meters long, 44 meters wide, 62 meters high, and weighs about 2,100 tons, and is composed of 8,920 copper plates. This puffer fish tower is currently the largest special-shaped steel structure urban sculpture in China.
As soon as you land on Xisha Island, the huge "puffer fish" seems to come to life, with two round eyes looking at the north. The setting sun shines on the scale-like copper sheets of the fish, making them shine. The Puffer Fish Tower is not only a landmark building in Yangzhong City, but also an important symbol of the 8th Jiangsu Provincial Garden Expo, and an important medium for Yangzhong to spread puffer fish culture100 help plan