Tongcheng, Anhui Explained

Tongcheng
Other Name:	Tungcheng
Settlement Type:	County-level city
Image Map1:	Location of Anqing Prefecture within Anhui (China).png
Map Caption1:	Anqing in Anhui
Coordinates:	31.0358°N 116.9367°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	China
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Anhui
Subdivision Type2:	Prefecture-level city
Subdivision Name2:	Anqing
Seat Type:	Municipal seat
Seat:	Wenchang Subdistrict
Area Total Km2:	1472
Population As Of:	2020
Population Total:	593629
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	China Standard
Utc Offset:	+8
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Postal Code:	231400

Tongcheng is a county-level city and former county in the southwest of Anhui province and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Anqing. Its population is and its area is 1571km2. Tongcheng is noted for the Tongcheng School.

Administrative divisions

Tongcheng City has jurisdiction over 3 subdistricts, 12 towns and 2 others.^[1]

Subdistricts

• Longteng Subdistrict (Chinese: 龙腾街道)
• Wenchang Subdistrict (Chinese: 文昌街道)
• Longmin Subdistrict (Chinese: 龙眠街道)

Towns

Xindu (Chinese: 新渡镇) Shuanggang (Chinese: 双港镇) Qingcao (Chinese: 青草镇) Kongcheng (Chinese: 孔城镇) Daguan (Chinese: 大关镇) Fangang (Chinese: 范岗镇)

Jinshen (Chinese: 金神镇) Lüting (Chinese: 吕亭镇) Tangwan (Chinese: 唐湾镇) Huangjia (Chinese: 黄甲镇) Xunyu (Chinese: 鲟鱼镇) Xizihu (Chinese: 嬉子湖镇)

Others

• Tongcheng Economic Development Zone (Chinese: 桐城经济开发区)
• Tongcheng Shuangxin Economic Development Zone (Chinese: 桐城双新经济开发区)

Notable people

• Zhang Tingyu, advisor to three Qing Dynasty emperors
• Chu Bo, the former governor of Hunan Province, and currently party chief in Inner Mongolia, was born in Tongcheng.
• Fang Bao, author
• Fang Lanfen, author
• Fang Quan, author, Qing prefect
• Fang Chih, Chinese diplomat
• Gui Congyou, diplomat, appointed China's ambassador to Sweden in 2017^[2]
  • Wang Wenbin, diplomat, one of the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zuo Guangdou, late Ming Dynasty censorate official

External links

• Government website of Tongcheng (in Simplified Chinese)
• Website of Tongcheng Middle School (in Simplified Chinese)
• Tourism Information of Tongcheng (in Simplified Chinese)
• Tongcheng Normal School (in Simplified Chinese)

Notes and References

1. Web site: . zh:蚌埠市-行政区划王 . XZQH . zh . 2012-05-24.
2. News: Vem är Gui Congyou? Möt Kinas ambassadör i Sverige SvD. Svenska Dagbladet. 30 January 2020. Forsberg. Birgitta.