Longgang is a county-level city of Zhejiang, China, under the administration of Wenzhou, located around 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of downtown Wenzhou.[1] The City lies on the south of the estuary of the Aojiang River [zh], facing the Town of Aojiang [zh], Pingyang County, across the river.[2] In 2018, it directly administrates an area of 183.99 square kilometres (71.04 sq mi) with 14 neighborhoods, 171 villages and 22 residential areas, and has a population of 378 thousands .[3]

Longgang 龙港市
County-level city
Longxiang Road
Longgang Location in Zhejiang
Coordinates: 27°34′55″N 120°32′56″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Zhejiang
Prefecture-level city	Wenzhou
Incorporated town	October 19, 1983 (approved)
Incorporated city	August 27, 2019 (approved)
Area
• Total	183.99 km2 (71.04 sq mi)
Population  (2018)
• Total	382,000
• Density	2,100/km2 (5,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

The City was formed on the basis of five fishing villages and less than in 1983, following the seaport construction in 1982. In 1984, the No.1 Document of the State Council of China states that "farmers who can live self-sufficiently can be given hukou of city and town dwellers." Accordingly, the Town of Longgang decided to open up its hukou to such farmers who bought land to construct houses, or who did business in the Town.[4] In the first month, more than 3,000 registered for moving to the Town. Since then, the population of the Town started booming and in 1989, the Town's population reached 40,000. With the population increase, Longgang's economy boomed , and has become a center of printing industry in China. China Business Network has described Longgang as "probably the largest town in China".[5]

Ever since 1987, Longgang has begun appealing for cityhood. The related reforms have begun since 1996. In August 2019, approved by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Longgang was proclaimed to be a county-level city by the provincial government of Zhejiang, which was the first among the economically developed towns in China.

Toponymy

The winding Aojiang River was also called the Qinglong River (青龙江; 青龍江; 'Green Loong River') by the locals of the south bank of the river, for the river resembles a green Chinese dragon (loong) in its lower reach.[6] After the establishment of Cangnan County in 1981, the County Government decided to built a sea port on the south bank. The villages of Longjiang (龙江; 龍江; 'Dragon River') and Yanjiang (沿江; 'Upon the River') was chosen as the site of the port.[7] After the site choice was announced in February 1982, the people of Lingxi, the county seat, began protesting against the decision in fear of the relocation of the county seat and beat the CCP high officials from Wenzhou.[8] Thus, the town near the port was not given a name due to political sensitiveness. The area was first called Yanjiang Port Area (沿江港区).[7] Since in Chinese, Yanjiang Port Area can be also interpreted as a port upon the river, which leads to ambiguity, the area was renamed as Longjiang Port Area (龙江港区; 龍江港區).[9] In 1983, when the Port Area appealed for township, Chen Junqiu, the official in command of the port, took one character from Longjiang (龙江; 龍江; 'Dragon River') and another from Port Area (港区; 港區) and made the blend word of Longgang (龙港; 龍港) to refer to the area.[7]

References

Cited books

• Li, Jinshan; Hu, Fengqiao; Yuan, Bo, eds. (2014). 三十岁的城市 龙港的孕育、诞生与发展 [30-year-old city: Longgang's conception, birth and development]. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press. ISBN 978-7-308-13909-0.
• Editorial Board of History of Longgang, ed. (2003). 龙港镇志（1991-2000） [History of Longgang Town (1991-2000)]. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. ISBN 7-101-03934-0. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2019-09-02.

Further reading

• Chen, Guanbo (1987). "中国的第一座农民城" [China's first farmers' city]. Wenhui Monthly (1): 140–148.

External links

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