Tongcheng (Chinese: 桐城; pinyin: Tóngchéng) is a county-level city and former county in the southwest of Anhui province and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Anqing. Its population is 744,000 and its area is 1,571 km² (607 sq mi). Tongcheng is noted for the Tongcheng School.

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Tongcheng 桐城市 Tungcheng
County-level city
Tongcheng in Anqing
Anqing in Anhui
Coordinates: 31°02′09″N 116°56′12″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Anhui
Prefecture-level city	Anqing
Area
• Total	1,472 km2 (568 sq mi)
Population  (2019)
• Total	686,000
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	231400

Administrative divisions

Tongcheng City has jurisdiction over 3 subdistricts, 12 towns and 2 others.[1]

Subdistricts

• Longteng Subdistrict (龙腾街道)
• Wenchang Subdistrict (文昌街道)
• Longmin Subdistrict (龙眠街道)

Towns

Others

• Tongcheng Economic Development Zone (桐城经济开发区)
• Tongcheng Shuangxin Economic Development Zone (桐城双新经济开发区)

Notable people

• Zhang Tingyu, advisor to three Qing Dynasty emperors
• Chu Bo, the former governor of Hunan Province, and currently party chief in Inner Mongolia, was born in Tongcheng.
• Fang Bao, author
• Fang Lanfen, author
• Fang Quan, author, Qing prefect
• Fang Chih, Chinese diplomat
• Gui Congyou, diplomat, appointed China's ambassador to Sweden in 2017[2]
• Wang Wenbin, diplomat, one of the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Zuo Guangdou, late Ming Dynasty censorate official

References

External links

• Government website of Tongcheng (in Simplified Chinese)
• Website of Tongcheng Middle School (in Simplified Chinese)
• Tourism Information of Tongcheng (in Simplified Chinese)
• Tongcheng Normal School (in Simplified Chinese)

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[ru] Тунчэн (Аньцин)