Tongzhou

Tongzhou District is an area of Beijing. It is situated in southeast Beijing and thought about the eastern door to the country's capital. Downtown Tongzhou itself lies around 20 km east of focal Beijing, at the northern end of the Grand Canal on the intersection between the Tonghui Canal and the Northern Canal and at the easternmost end of Chang'an Avenue. The whole region covers a region of 906 km2 350 sq mi, or 6% of Beijing's aggregate zone. It had a populace of 673,952 at the 2000 Census, and has seen huge development and advancement from that point forward, developing to a populace of 1,184,000 at the 2010 Census.

The area is subdivided into four subdistricts, ten towns, and one ethnic township. Tongzhou was established in 195 BC amid the Western Han Dynasty under the name of Lu County, in spite of the fact that there is proof for human settlement in the Neolithic. Toward the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty the character Lu by which it was known was adjusted by the expansion of a water radical to end up Lu. In 1151 under the Jin line Lu County was renamed Tongzhou, generally signifying 'the place for going through', in acknowledgment of its significance as the land and water way to deal with Beijing.