Jiangsu Taicang belongs to which city?

Taicang, Jiangsu Province belongs to Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

Taicang City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is under the management of Suzhou City. Taicang City is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary, in the southeast of the Yangtze River Delta, facing the Yangtze River in the east, across the river from Chongming Island in Shanghai, bordering Kunshan City in the west, Baoshan District and Jiading District in Shanghai in the south and Changshu City in the north.

Geographical coordinates are between 3120'-3145' north latitude and120 58'-120' east longitude. The largest straight line in the territory is 45.5 kilometers long from north to south and 39 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of 809.93 square kilometers, including 665.96 square kilometers of land area.

In the tenth year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (1497), Taicang State was established; The first year of the Republic of China (19 12) was named Taicang county; 1March, 993, Taicang City was built from the county. Taicang has Jincang Lake National Water Conservancy Scenic Area, Taicang Modern Agriculture Park, Taicang Shaxi Ancient Town and Taicang Yushan Garden.

It won the honorary titles of "Hometown of Folk Culture and Art in China" in 20 18-2020, national health city (district), model city of healthy city construction in 20 18, the fourth batch of national demonstration cities and counties of ecological civilization construction, and national double-support model city (county).

geologic feature

Taicang city is located in the east of the lower Yangtze paraplatform. In the long historical period, the crust has not changed much except for the large-scale transgression and regression of the whole lower Yangtze paraplatform. The geological structure in the territory is relatively simple, mainly the Hu (Zhou) Su (Zhou) fault is obliquely inserted in the northern Liuhe area and crosses the river, showing a southwest-northeast structure. Magmatic activity is extremely poor, and basalt is only seen at the drilling hole101-460m in Luduqiao. ?

The surface of Taicang City is completely covered by Quaternary residual soil. Under Quaternary, there are Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic strata from new to old, and the distribution at all levels is as follows: Quaternary alluvium, distributed all over the county, is more than 97 meters thick; Tertiary red beds, mainly distributed from the county seat to Mao Kannonji (now Xinmao Rice Factory), are more than 300 meters thick.

The upper Cretaceous red beds are mainly distributed from the county seat to MaoKannonji and Vitex negundo, and the thickness is greater than 1000 m.. Upper Jurassic volcanic rocks, mainly distributed in Shaxi, Guizhuang and the line from the south of the county to Qian Jing, with a thickness greater than1000 m; Paleozoic strata are mainly distributed in Shi Si, Jiuqu, Laozha, Wang Yue, Pailou, pontoon bridge and other places, with a thickness of over 4,000m.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Taicang City