The earliest northwest of Nantong is the outer edge of Yangtaigang land. There were clans and tribes of human beings more than 5,000 years ago, and the ancestors of Nantong flourished here. Most other areas were formed by the gradual expansion of offshore sandbars in recent 2000 years.
Before the Sui Dynasty, Nantong City gradually became a continent, originally called "Hudou" (later called Hudou Prefecture). There are many people on this continent, and salt is their occupation. South China is in the east and Zhou Fuhai is in the northeast. All sandbars belong to Hailing (now Taizhou).
In the seventh year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (4 1 1), Ninghai, Rugao, Linjiang and Putao counties were located in Hai 'an and Rugao areas today, belonging to South Yanzhou (now Yangzhou). In the seventh year of the Southern Song Dynasty (47 1), Hai 'an County was established in the west of Ninghai County, which was soon revoked, and its jurisdiction was restored to Ninghai County, and then merged into Hailing County.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Nantong was controlled by the separatist regime in the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the tenth year of Baota in the Southern Tang Dynasty (952), Rugao Field in Hailing County was promoted to Rugao County. In the fifth year of Xiande in the later Zhou Dynasty (958), he set up a still water division, later changed to Tongzhou, built a city, and led Jinghai and Haimen counties.
Tongzhou, once called Chongzhou and Chongchuan in Song Dynasty, belongs to Huainan East Road. In the fifteenth year of Yuan Dynasty (1278), Tongzhou was promoted to Tongzhou Road; In the twenty-second year of Zhiyuan (1285), it was restored as a state, belonging to Yangzhou Road, leading Jinghai and Haimen counties.
1June 1949, Haimen and Qidong were liberated. On February 2, Nantong was liberated; On February 3rd, Nantong Municipal People's Government was established with its office at Jianshe Road 1. 1953 1 month, Jiangsu province was rebuilt, Nantong city was changed to a provincial city, and Nantong district was built at the same time. 1March, 983, Nantong administrative office was abolished, and six counties under the original administrative office were led by Nantong city, and the system of city governing counties was implemented.
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Nantong, located at the intersection of the eastern coastline of China and the Yangtze River, on the north wing of the Yangtze River estuary, across the river from Shanghai, is the only city in Jiangsu with the deep-water coastline of the Yangtze River. The land area is 800 1 km2, which belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta with subtropical monsoon climate. It is a scenic tourist city and a famous historical and cultural city, and is known as "the first city in modern China".
It has jurisdiction over Rudong County, Hai 'an, Rugao, Qidong and Haimen, Chongchuan, Gangzha and Tongzhou Districts and Fumin Port Office (Nantong Economic and Technological Development Zone). It is one of the four coastal cities in China 14 that are further open to the outside world, and it is an influential hometown of textiles, architecture, education, sports, cultural relics, longevity, peace and overseas Chinese.
It has successively won the honors of national civilized city, national environmental protection model city, national health city, national garden city, national ecological city, national excellent city for comprehensive management of social security, national advanced city for scientific and technological progress, and China elegant city for service outsourcing. In 20 17, the permanent population of Nantong was 7.305 million.
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