Cangnan County
Cangnan County (simplified Chinese: 苍南县; traditional Chinese: 蒼南縣; pinyin: Cāngnán Xiàn ⓘ) is a county in the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang, China. The county government is in Lingxi. Cangnan has 20 towns, 14 townships, and two nationality townships. Cangnan and Taishun are apart of the Min Dong , Eastern Min cultural region of Zhejiang province. Wenzhou dialect and Jinxiang dialect, are also spoken.
Cangnan
苍南县 | |
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Lake in Mount Yucang, Lingshan Pagoda, Huayang Agricultural Sightseeing Park, Lingxi Lake, Yuliao Beach, Jiangbin Park, Pucheng Fortified City, Wufeng Tea Garden, Wanyao Ancient Village, Cangnan New City, Mushroom Rock in Mount Yucang, Fanshan, Xiaguan Fishing Village | |
Location of Cangnan County in Zhejiang | |
| Coordinates: 27°31′N 120°25′E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Zhejiang |
| Government | |
| • Type | County |
| Area | |
| • County | 1,261.08 km2 (486.91 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 170.9 km2 (66.0 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • County | 1,184,600 |
| • Density | 940/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 279,000 |
| • Urban density | 1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Cangnan People |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 325800 |
| GDP (Nominal) | 2015 |
| - Total | CNY 42.50 billion |
| - Per capita | CNY 35,877 (US$ 5,760) |
| - Growth | 7.89% |
| - Lingxi (2015) | CNY 12.5 billion |
| Licence plate prefixes | 浙C |
| Regional variety | Zhenan Min dialect, Wenzhou dialect, Jinxiang dialect |
| Website | Cangnan China |
City tree Camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) City flower Rhododendron Simsii Planch (Rhododendron Simsii Planch) | |
Founded in 1981, Cangnan County is the south gate of Zhejiang Province, the major birthplace of the “Wenzhou Pattern” as well as an open door to the outside world authorised by the State Council. Its total land area is 1,261 square kilometres and its sea area is 3,783 square kilometres. Governing 10 towns, two minority towns and with a registered population of 1.3 million people, it is the most populous county in Zhejiang. In 2014, the county realised a GDP of US$6.3bn and total fiscal revenue of US$658m.
The annual outputs of the packaging-printing and plastic-plating industries are 15 per cent and 20 per cent of national outputs respectively. The annual sales volume of the gift industry is about 10 per cent of China's sales volume, and the area has acquired 14 golden “Guo Zihao” business cards such as “China Printing City”.
Nowadays, Cangnan is implementing the development strategy of “double-sea, double-district”. The construction of the Zhejiang-Taiwan (Cangnan) Economic and Trade Co-operation Zone focuses on: the construction of core platforms, advancing deep industrial connections, promoting comprehensive co-operation and exchange, pushing forward institutional innovation and accelerating the formation of the pattern of “three-cores, three-passageways”. Cangnan is actively engaging in constructing a vigorous ecological, industrial and trading coastal city.