Why is Yancheng City called Yancheng? Is it because salt is produced there?

It is named after salt and has a long history

Yancheng established Yandu County in the 4th year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty (119 BC). At that time, there were salt boiling pavilions all over the place

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There are rivers of salt everywhere in the field, and "Du" means the river that carries salt. In the 7th year of Yixi (AD 411) of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was renamed Yancheng County, named after "the city is surrounded by salt fields". Yancheng has experienced more than 2,000 years of historical precipitation, and is full of rich sea salt culture. In ancient times, it was famous in China for its rich production of "Huai salt" and was called "Huaiyi land" in ancient times. As early as the Warring States Period, people "boiled the sea to make salt", and "Historical Records" records that "there is plenty of sea salt in the East China Sea." During the Qin and Han Dynasties, "cooking the sea was beneficial and the canals were used to facilitate transportation", and it has become a prosperous place for fishing and salt. In the Tang Dynasty, the Huainan salt field was "the richest in the southeast, and half of the border wages came from here". There were "one hundred and twenty-three salt pavilions" in Yancheng alone. During the Baoying period of Tang Dynasty, there were Hailing Supervisor and Yancheng Supervisor in the territory, and more than one million stones of salt were boiled every year. At that time, Yancheng had become an important salt production center on the southeast coast.

Yancheng is a veritable "salt" city. Among the place names in various places, there are still names related to salt production management such as "Tuan", "Zao", "Zong", "丿" and "Cang". "Tuan" is a production organization in the salt area and the production form of "gathering together to fry" by kitchen households. Each salt field has several regiments, and each regiment has several kitchen households. In the old days, places with "Tuan" as their name were mostly distributed in Dongtai and Dafeng in the ancient Huainan Salt District, such as Qijia Tuan, Nan Tuan, Xi Tuan, Xin Tuan, and Bei Tuan. Tuan, Bian Tuan, etc. At present, Xituan Town in Dafeng still remains, and there are 18 villages and 48 natural village groups in the city whose place names are related to "Tuan". "Zao" is an important facility for Zao people to fry salt. There are 6 towns named Touzao, Sanzao, Sizao, Liuzao, Shenzao and Nanchenzao in the territory, and there are also 85 villages. And 368 natural village groups are also named after "zao". "General" is the unit where the salt farm residents live together. In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a large-scale "Hongwu Dispersion". Immigrants came to the desert seaside to burn salt. In order to manage the Zao people scattered along the coast, each site was set up in order. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there were 30 total salt fields in Fu'an Salt Fields, Dongtai. Today, the place names of coastal towns and villages still retain the names of No. 1 Zong, No. 2 Zong, and No. 3 Zong. There are also 7 villages and 37 natural village groups named after "Zong" in the territory. "Cang" means salt warehouse. Biancang Town, Tinghu District, which is famous for its dead branch peonies, was the location of Wuyou Saltworks' Bicang. There are also Dongtai Sancang Town, 11 villages and 18 natural village groups named after "cang" in the territory. "丿" is one of the main production tools used by kitchen people to cook salt in the late Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. It is shaped like an iron pot, slightly shallower than the pot, with a diameter of three feet and a depth of 3-4 inches. The towns named after "丿" in the territory include Caoyu Town in Dongtai and Panyi Town in Dafeng. There are also 6 villages and 13 natural village groups in the city also named after "丿". In addition, the pan iron used for frying salt and the saponins used to make salt are reflected in the place names. For example, Binhai County has the natural villages of Tiepanyang and Tianpan, and Xiangshui County has the natural villages of saponaria trees and saponins, etc. .

Rich resources and unique ecology

Yancheng is the largest city in Jiangsu Province. The city has a total area of ??15,000 square kilometers, including 7,737 square kilometers of arable land and more than 1,300 square kilometers of rivers and lakes.

The ocean and tidal flat resources are very rich. The total coastal beach area is 4,550 square kilometers (including radiating sandbars), including 1,677 square kilometers in the supratidal zone and 1,610 square kilometers in the intertidal zone, accounting for 75, 64.6 and 60.8 of the province respectively. The coastal beaches belonging to Dongtai, Dafeng, Sheyang, Binhai, Xiangshui and other counties (cities) have an area available for development and utilization in the near future of 1,300 square kilometers. At present, the coastal area south of the Sheyang River Estuary is extending to the sea at a rate of more than 10 square kilometers per year. It is called the "Golden Coast" and is the largest and most potential land reserve resource in Jiangsu.

The coastline port resources are uniquely endowed by nature. Yancheng City sea area is located in the middle of Jiangsu coast, with a total coastline of 582 kilometers, accounting for 56% of Jiangsu Province. The sea area is 18,897 square kilometers, including 12,144 square kilometers of internal water area and 6,753 square kilometers of territorial sea area. The coastal waters are the only inland sea waters in China without red tide.

The coastal Chenjiagang is 27 nautical miles away from Lianyungang Port and 59 nautical miles away from Rizhao Port. It has relatively superior conditions for collection, distribution and transportation. It is a second-class waterway and a national second-class open port. Dafeng Port is 210 nautical miles away from Qingdao Port and 120 nautical miles from Lianyungang Port in the north, 460 nautical miles away from Nagasaki Port in Japan and 465 nautical miles from Busan Port in South Korea to the east, and 620 nautical miles away from Keelung Port in Taiwan and 280 nautical miles from Shanghai Port in the south. It has been planned by the country as a Category I open to the outside world. port. Binhai Port is located in the middle of the Jiangsu coast, within Lianyungang and the Yangtze River Estuary, facing Japan and South Korea across the sea. The nearest -10-meter isobath line is 1.215 nautical miles offshore. Deep water leads directly to the sea. It can build 50,000-100,000-ton vessels. The wharf berth is one of the shore sections with the best water depth along the Jiangsu coast. Sheyang Port now has 5 thousand-ton piers and opened a container inland branch line. The port's annual throughput capacity can reach 5.3 million tons. Currently, Sheyang Port has navigation with 24 coastal ports.

It has abundant oil and natural gas resources. Proven oil and gas reserves reach 80 billion cubic meters, and total reserves are expected to reach 200 billion cubic meters. It is the largest oil and gas field on land in the eastern coastal area of ??China. There are about 100,000 square kilometers of Yellow Sea oil storage sedimentary basins along the coast and offshore, ranking second in the country's marine oil and gas sedimentary basins, with broad exploration and development prospects.

Agricultural products have outstanding resource advantages. Yancheng is the largest agricultural and sideline products production base in Jiangsu. It has built 8 national commercial grain base counties, 1 high-quality oil base county and 6 high-quality cotton base counties. It is rich in marine, animal and plant resources. The planting scale and total amount of major agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, mulberry fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs and fish rank first in the province. The production area certification of pollution-free agricultural products ranks first in the province, and 4 counties in the city are included in the provincial-level agricultural product production area certification; there are 212 planting industry production areas with an area of ??2.23 million acres that have passed the provincial-level pollution-free agricultural product certification, and 87 animal husbandry production areas, The number of livestock and poultry is 17.99 million. 5 new national and provincial agricultural standardization demonstration zones and 6 provincial export-oriented agricultural production bases were established. There are two certified organic food bases covering an area of ??102,000 acres, and six green food bases covering an area of ??22,000 acres. There are 179 products in the city that have obtained the titles of organic food, green food and pollution-free food.

Human resources are very abundant. Yancheng is the second most populous city in Jiangsu. The current total urban and rural labor supply is 3.9244 million, of which 2.7202 million are rural laborers. 1.289 million rural laborers were transferred to employment, including 790,000 labor exports and 20,500 overseas labor services. The existing surplus labor force is 840,000 people, which can be exported to 500,000 people, of which 210,000 people have specific skills. Among the labor resources available for export, there are 26,000 people with college education or above, 265,000 people with high school education (including technical secondary schools, technical schools, and vocational high schools), 209,000 people with junior high school education or above; and those with intermediate vocational skills or above. There are 58,000 people, including 148,000 professionals with primary vocational skills.

Ecological tourism resources are unique. The city currently has more than 40 scenic spots open to the public, including 15 provincial-level cultural protection units, 2 3A-level scenic spots, 1 2A-level scenic spot, 1 provincial-level scenic spot, and 2 national-level nature reserves. The eastern part of the city has the largest coastal wetland on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and on the edge of the Asian continent. It is included in the world's key wetland protection areas. It is planning to build the Yancheng Wetland Ecological National Park to create the "Oriental Wetland Capital". The wetland reserve contains the world's first wild elk reserve and a national rare bird nature reserve, and is a member of the United Nations Human and Natural Biosphere. The Dafeng Wild Elk Reserve currently has a population of more than 600 elk, ranking first in the world in total wild population size, reproduction rate and survival rate. The national rare bird nature reserve has 12 species of first-class national key protected wild animals and 67 species of national second-class key protected wild animals. More than 1,200 red-crowned cranes come here to spend the winter every year, accounting for more than 60% of the world's wild population. The western part of the city is located in the hinterland of the Lixiahe area. Lakes such as Dazong Lake, Jiulongkou, and Majiadang cover an area of ??nearly 100 square kilometers. They are typical lagoon-type lake wetlands. The people here are simple, the folk culture has a long history, and the original ecological environment is well preserved. , known as the "Golden Beach and Silver Beach".

Yancheng Coastal Wetland also has radiating sandbars in the coastal shallow sea area that are 200 kilometers long and 140 kilometers wide, a coastal forest farm covering an area of ??more than 100,000 acres, and a vast coastal grassland, integrating blue sky, sea, tidal flats, forests, grasslands, and rare animals and plants. , with seaside scenery that is very different from bedrock coasts and sandy coasts. Yancheng is not only rich in resources and unique in ecology, but also has distinctive folk cultural characteristics. Yancheng is the birthplace of Huai Opera and is known as the “Hometown of Huai Opera”, “Hometown of Small Opera” and “Hometown of Modern Opera”. Yancheng is also one of the three and a half hometowns of acrobatics in the country. It has unique advantages in acrobatic resources, education and training, and talent teams. There are many famous people and places of interest in history. The urban area has cultural landscapes such as the ancestral hall of Lu Xiufu, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the former residence of Song Cao, the calligrapher of the late Ming Dynasty. Baiju Town in Dafeng City is the hometown of Shi Naian, the author of "Water Margin". The Xixi River in Dongtai has the "Reading Hall" of Fan Zhongyan, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the pavilion There is a "withered peony" planted by Bian Ji, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, in Hubiancang. The hometowns of the famous modern diplomat Qiao Guanhua and the Marxist theorist Hu Qiaomu are also in Yancheng City.

An old revolutionary area, Baihe New City

Yancheng is an old revolutionary area. After the "Southern Anhui Incident" broke out, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China immediately reestablished the New Fourth Army headquarters in Yancheng. After that, the Central China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the New Fourth Army Branch of the Central Military Commission, the Central China Party School, the Fifth Branch of the Anti-Japanese University, and the Shandong Province were successively established in Yancheng. With the Central Branch of Arts, Jianghuai Bank and other organizations, Yancheng quickly became the political, military, economic and cultural center behind enemy lines in Central China. It is sometimes said that "there is Yan'an in northern Shaanxi and Yancheng in northern Jiangsu". A large number of proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, including Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Huang Kecheng, Su Yu, Ye Fei, Zhang Aiping, Hong Xuezhi, Zeng Shan, etc., all fought here. It has the largest, most comprehensive and representative New Fourth Army memorial facilities in the country. Now there are New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, Memorial Tower and Taishan Temple, the reconstructed military headquarters site, in the urban area. Dafeng Baiju has the New Fourth Army and Eighth Route Army meeting monument.

Yancheng is located in the Lixia River water network area in northern Jiangsu. The urban area is crisscrossed and winding with numerous rivers. It has distinctive water town characteristics and is known as the "City of Hundreds of Rivers". The main rivers flowing through the urban area include Xinyanggang, Mangshe River, Chuanchang River, Picha River, Xiaoyang River and Tongyu River, etc. They are the main ecological water veins and ecological corridors of Yancheng. As the most important wetland in the city center, Dayang Bay in Tinghu District is planning to build the Dayang Bay leisure tourism resort including Dayang Bay Forest Park and Water Park. After the new round of urban master plan revision is completed, Yancheng will be divided into six areas bounded by expressways and major rivers, forming a relatively typical water network urban pattern. Through the development and landscape construction of waterfront areas, water-friendly places will be added, and "people, water, and city" will go hand in hand