Nantong Overview

Nantong is in the coastal middle part of China's Mainland, the intersection of rivers and sea, the proper mouth of the Changjiang River, lie in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, rest on entrance of Changjiang River, the east with the Northeast face south the Huanghai Sea, connect the Dongtai county of the Yancheng city in the north, border on the city of Thai state in the west, face each other across the river with Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Taicang and Chongming county of Shanghai. It have the claim of "the junction of rivers and sea, grip north and south throat ". Nantong city land is at the north latitude of 31°41'06?~32°42'44?,and the east longitudes of 120°11'47?~121°54'33, belong to the moist monsoon climate of north subtropical zone, the illumination is sufficient , it is temperate in climate, make a clear distinction between the four seasons, with heavy rainfall, the marine climate is obvious. Frost-free period is long, the average temperature of the whole year is 15.3 ?, the sunshine is 2029 hours, annual average precipitation is 1000- 140 millimetres.
228 days of frost-free period. It have jurisdiction over now Nantong with Rugao, Tong state, Haimen, Qidong 4 city (at county level ), Hai'an, Rudong 2 county, Chongchuan , Gangzha, enrich the people harbor economic and technological development zone, wolf mountain travel resort, national-level economic and technological development zone of Nantong, there are 146 villages and towns in all. The whole area of land of the whole city is 8001 sq. km., adjoin about 10,000 sq. km. of sea area, total population is 7,822,500. The area of urban area is 381.26 sq. km., population is 759,800. Nantong is located in the north bank of the Changjiang River mouth. The south face each other across the river with Shanghai and south of Jiangsu area; Adjoin with the north plain of Jiangsu, link with Asia-Europe Transcontinental Bridge through the railway . Go to sea from entrance of Changjiang River coherent China coastal with world all Hong Kong very; Trace back along river, can reach provinces such as Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei Province, Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, etc. in China . Nantong faces radiating the covering of a fan with two major economy in the inland abroad, there are similar position advantages with Shanghai. Nantong was being developed, amalgamated constantly from the ancient sandspit of north bank of the Changjiang River, belonged to the downstream alluvial plain of the Changjiang River. Invite more than 6000 years ago, the Changjiang River water carry from the upper reaches secretly a large amount of silt deposit in Jiangkou, Nantong become land from this, and from west to east gradually, extend towards the south to expand. The region outline of east-west is longer than north-south, with water on three sides, one side makes the land, is like the irregular water chestnut for . From incomplete mound area of wolf mountain separately, composed by the river area in Hai'an, it is ancient in bank north for district at the sandspit, Lu water of districts, the ancient plain of Nantong district, the southern plain and sand bank, Sabyu plain district, reclamation area new coastal, etc. There are 226 kilometers of water front of the Changjiang River in Nantong, 210 kilometers of yellow sea coastlines. The area of littoral zone is more than 13,000 sq. km.; More than 210,000 hectares of coastal mud flat, is one of the most abundant areas of reserve resource of coastal area of China. Lu Si fishing ground is four major one of nine major fishing grounds of the fishing ground, worlds of the whole country. The aquatic resources are very abundant, is national clam, laver, river eel, clam worm and prawn's export base. The mineral products that are already verified are mainly iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, coal and marble, etc.. The soil is fertile, abound with rice, silk cocoon, cotton, oil and peppermint ,etc..