Shuitou 水头镇 | |
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 A view of Shuitou Town fromAnping Bridge | |
  Shuitou Location in Fujian | |
| Coordinates:24°42′27″N118°26′07″E / 24.70750°N 118.43528°E /24.70750; 118.43528 | |
| Country | People'sRepublic of China |
| Province | Fujian |
| Prefecture-level city | Quanzhou |
| County | Nan'an |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 362300 |
| Area code | 0595 |
Shuitou (simplified Chinese:水头;traditional Chinese:水頭;pinyin:Shuǐtóu;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Chúi-thâu;lit. 'water head') is atown (atownship-level division) ofNan'an City, in southernFujian province,China.[1]
Shuitou is located on the western side of theShijing River and its estuary, theAnhai Bay (安海湾). It is connected to its eastern neighbor, the town ofAnhai, by the famous ancient five-li-longAnping Bridge, built from large (some almost 10 meters long) slabs of stone. There is also a modern road to Anhai (and on to Jinjiang City and Quanzhou), which has a much shorter bridge over the Shijing, as the estuary has largely silted up over a thousand of years since the old bridge was built.
Shuitou, similarly to its southern neighbor,Shijing, has a significant stone-working industry.
There is a fair amount of new economic development in town, some of it connected to the trade withTaiwan.
Aquaculture is practiced on the Anhai Bay (the estuary of theShijing River). As of ca. 2001, 138.5hectares of the bay's mudflats and water surface were used for aquaculture; this included 37.5 ha used for raising theblood cockles (Tegillarca granosa, 泥蚶), 58.3 ha used for theChinese razor clam (Sinonovacula constricta, 缢蛏), 16.2 ha used foroyster farming, and 26.5 ha used forshrimp farming.Over 1400 people from Shuitou's Gangnei Village (巷内村) were employed in aquaculture and fishing.[2]
