Jiangyan

Jiangyan District is one among three city districts of the metropolis of Taizhou, Jiangsu province, having been, till December 2012, a county-degree city. Jiangyan is referred to for being the birthplace of the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Hu Jintao. Formerly known as Taixian or Taihsien, Jiangyan was a county by using the stop of the Western Han Dynasty. It has relics from the Zhou Dynasty and a Buddha statue from the Tang Dynasty.

It was a town inside the Qing Dynasty. Jiangyan has previously also been known as Hailu, Wuling, and Taizhou. In July 1994, the call turned into modified to Jiangyan and city popularity obtained. The Qintong Boat Festival has an extended history going returned to the Ming Dynasty, and is growing in significance as a traveller vacation spot in jap China. The Baima Temple in Jiangyan is the birthplace of the Navy of the People's Liberation Army. The first Soviet base in northern Jiangsu was based in Jiangyan by means of the No. 14 Red Army.

Jiangyan has been running to modernize the district thru enhanced schooling and generation opportunities. Many technology were advanced in Jiangyan, and extra than 70 patents had been registered. Jiangyan has been a number of the "Top a hundred most economically aggressive counties in China" in view that 1995. In 1990, Jiangyan was awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honor via the United Nations Environment Programme for its fulfillment in defensive the surroundings and growing grain yield through huge use of marsh biogas ponds.