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Jiaxing Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Zhejiang Province , In Chinese [嘉兴市]

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Administrative Division Code : 330400;
Post Code : 314000;
Phone Area Code :0573
The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 浙F
The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 330400
Area Coverage: 3915 square kilometers;
Population : 3,320,000 persons;
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The adminitrative division form of Jiaxing is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have juridiction over some small cities in China.
Subdivisions Under the jurisdication of Jiaxing Municipality
S/NFull NameIn Chinese In PinyinDivison type
1Xiuzhou District秀洲区Xiuzhou QuDistrict
2Nanhu District南湖区Nanhu QuDistrict
3Tongxiang City桐乡市Tongxiang ShiCity
4Pinghu City平湖市Pinghu ShiCity
5Haining City海宁市Haining ShiCity
6Haiyan County海盐县Haiyan XianCounty
7Jiashan County嘉善县Jiashan XianCounty
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Overview



The city of Jiaxing is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Zhejiang Province, located roughly midway between Hangzhou Bay, lying to the southeast of Jiaxing, and Lake Tai, lying to the northwest of the city. Jiaxing is also located roughly midway between the two mega-metropolises, Hangzhou and Shanghai. Put slighty differently, the area of the prefecture-level city of Jiaxing is nestled between the Lake Tai Basin and the Hangjia Hu Plain, both being part of the North Zhejiang Plain that lies southeast to northeast of the city of Hangzhou, including Jiaxing and the rest of the peninsular area between Hangzhou and Shanghai, also famously known as the heart of 'the land of fish and rice'.




Not surprisingly, the city proper of Jiaxing is situated along the Hangzhou-Shanghai Railway, and it is also situated on the banks of the Grand Canal which, since ancient times, has linked Hangzhou with Beijing, though the Grand Canal has long since ceased to play a prominent role as a transportation artery.




The city's terrain is generally flat and low-lying, though it slopes slightly downward from south to north, being, as indicated, a part of the North Zhejiang Plain that lies along the southern banks of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River , meaning that it is part of the Yangtze River Delta (note that the Yangtze River empties into the sea just north of Shanghai, where Hangzhou Bay meets the East China Sea).




The area of present-day Jiaxing is the site of an important Neolithic Age culture, the Majiabang Culture (BCE 5000-3000), as the next section illustrates.


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