Yangzhong 扬中市
County-level city
Yangzhong Location in Jiangsu
Coordinates:32°14′13″N119°48′54″E / 32.237°N 119.815°E /32.237; 119.815[1]
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangsu
Prefecture-level city	Zhenjiang
Area
• Total	332 km2 (128 sq mi)
• Land	228 km2 (88 sq mi)
• Water	104 km2 (40 sq mi)
Population
• Total	343,900
• Density	1,510/km2 (3,910/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	212200

Yangzhong (simplified Chinese:扬中;traditional Chinese:揚中;pinyin:Yángzhōng;lit. 'Yang[tze] middle') is acounty-level city under the administration ofZhenjiang,Jiangsu province, China. It is the easternmostcounty-level division of Zhenjiang City.

There were only several smallershoals in the area of present-day Yangzhong during theEastern Jin. As time went on, they enlarged and merged into an elongated shoal byTang dynasty, which was called Xiaozhou (小洲; literally: "Small shoal") inSong dynasty. It was renamed Xinzhou (新洲) and then Ximinzhou (細民洲) duringMing dynasty, and was designated Taipingzhou (太平洲) inQing dynasty.

In 1904, the imperial court decided to establish asubprefecture named after Taiping. In 1911, it was promoted to a county. Since there is a namesake in Anhui. The county was renamed Yangzhong, the abbreviation of "揚子江中" which means "(the shoal is) in the Yangtze River".

• In 1938, the Japanese army captured the county, then it was governed by the pro-Japanese collaborators.
• In 1939, theJiangnan Counter-Japanese Volunteers' Army attacked the county, then the Nationalist Government controlled it.
• In 1940, the Japanese army recaptured the county.
• In July 1945, the force of CPC overthrew the puppet county government, but the Nationalist Government controlled the county in December.
• On 22 April 1949, the PLA captured the county.
• In 1994, the county was turn into a county-level city.

At present, Yangzhong City has 5 towns and 1 other.^[2]

5 towns

1 other

• Yangzhong Economic Development Zone (扬中经济开发区)

Yangzhong is famous for itspufferfish aquaculture and cuisine. It is also home to a 2,300 tongiant bronze pufferfish sculpture.^[5] Each spring the city hosts a pufferfish food festival, which in 2018 attracted over 850,000 tourists.^[6]

• Yangzhong Land Park

• "About Yangzhong". Archived fromthe original on 2007-12-17. Retrieved2007-11-17.

• Yangzhong City English guide (Jiangsu.net)

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• Zhenjiang
• River islands of China

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