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Taicang
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Administration
Taicang administers 7 towns:WEB , {|- Chengxiang ()
- Shaxi ()
- Ludu ()
- Liuhe ()
- Fuqiao ()
- Huangjing ()
- Shuangfeng ()
History
Toponym
Taicang as a place name is mentioned in a memorial to the throne of geographer Jia Dan during the Song dynasty, "Where lies to the east of Kunshan nowadays", he supposedly wrote, "is called Taicang, also known as Gangshen".WEB,weblink å³é¡å¿/å·19 - ç»´åºæåºï¼èªç±çå¾ä¹¦é¦, zh.wikisource.org, zh, 2017-07-06,Overview
Taicang is a natural port. Under the Yuan, the city reached its peak between 1271 and 1368. Under the Ming, Taicang's Liuhe Harbor was the departure point for Zheng He's treasure fleets. It was also during this period that the shoals in the Yangtze estuary which later became Chongming Island were placed under the supervision of Taicang Prefecture."Chongming County" in the Encyclopedia of Shanghai, pp. 50 ff. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110191937weblink |date=2015-01-10 }} Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers (Shanghai), 2010. Hosted by the Municipality of Shanghai.It was the venue for the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup.Geography
The Taicang port is in the east of the city, and south of the Yangtze exit into the East China Sea. The center of the Taicang port is on 31°37â²00" North, 121°14â²00" East. The port line stretches 24.3 miles (38.8 km), of which 15.6 miles can park 50 thousand ton vessels.Taicang is in a humid subtropical climate zone with distinctive seasons. The average year round temperature is 15.5 Celsius. Precipitation is around 1078.1 mm.Climate
{{Weather box|width=auto|metric first=y|single line=y |collapsed = Y|location = Taicang (1991â2020 normals, extremes 1981â2010)|Jan high C = 7.9|Feb high C = 10.1|Mar high C = 14.4|Apr high C = 20.4|May high C = 25.6|Jun high C = 28.3|Jul high C = 32.6|Aug high C = 32.1|Sep high C = 28.1|Oct high C = 23.0|Nov high C = 17.3|Dec high C = 10.7|Jan mean C = 4.1|Feb mean C = 5.9|Mar mean C = 10.0|Apr mean C = 15.5|May mean C = 20.9|Jun mean C = 24.4|Jul mean C = 28.7|Aug mean C = 28.2|Sep mean C = 24.1|Oct mean C = 18.7|Nov mean C = 12.9|Dec mean C = 6.5|Jan low C = 1.1|Feb low C = 2.6|Mar low C = 6.3|Apr low C = 11.5|May low C = 16.9|Jun low C = 21.3|Jul low C = 25.5|Aug low C = 25.3|Sep low C = 21.0|Oct low C = 15.1|Nov low C = 9.3|Dec low C = 3.2Economy
Taicang is known for having operations from companies established by Germans since 1985, when the first German businessperson went to Taicang. Accordingly, the city obtained the nickname "Little Swabia" with it having German-inspired businesses. The area does not have a significant German population as the German expatriates prefer Shanghai since it contains the German School of Shanghai. The city has the German Centre for Industry and Trade Taicang ({{zh|first=s|s=太ä»å¾·å½ä¸å¿}}).WEB, Bradsher, Keith, Ewing, Jack,weblink Why Biden's China Policy Faces an Obstacle in Germany, The New York Times, 2021-03-19, 2021-03-22, ABA Chemicals, a chemicals manufacturing company, is headquartered in Taicang.WEB,weblink ABA Chemicals Corporation: Private Company Information, Bloomberg, January 30, 2019, By 2021 the city had a labor shortage with workers demanding higher wages.Notable people
(File:Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) in 1958.jpg|thumb|left|Chien-Shiung Wu)- Chien-Shiung Wu, the most famous female physicist in history by acclamation, who built the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project and disproved the conservation of parity
See also
External links
- Taicang guide on www.Jiangsu.net {{in lang|en}}
References
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