Qidong

Qidong is a county-degree metropolis underneath the management of the prefecture-degree city of Nantong in southeastern Jiangsu province, China. It is located at the north facet of the Yangtze River opposite Shanghai and forms a peninsula jutting out into the East China Sea. It has a populace of 1.12 million. The middle of the town is known as Huilong Township. It also has a well-known fishing port known as Lusi city, named after Lu Dongbin, one of the eight immortals, who is said to have visited the vicinity four instances.

Qidong's Qilong township changed into previously a separate island in the Yangtze known as Yonglongsha but now paperwork a pene-enclave on Chongming Island, maximum of which belongs to Shanghai. The place of present-day Qidong changed into part of the East China Sea till the Han dynasty, while deposition from the Yangtze River started out to form islands, significantly together with Dongbuzhou on the web site of gift-day Lusi.

These developed until they have become fully merged with the mainland during the Qing dynasty. Under the Republic, Qidong County became installed in March 1928. By November 1989, it turned into taken into consideration urban sufficient to be labelled a county-stage town as an alternative. In July 2012, Qidong changed into the scene of a violent environmental protest against an commercial waste pipeline.