Jintan District is a district under the administration of Changzhou in the Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China.
History
Jintan, known as Jinshan () in ancient times, was a township of Yanling commandery since the reign of the Emperor Yuan of Jin. Then it was promoted by its inhabitants as Jinshan county to strengthen the local vigilance in the late Sui dynasty, without permission. As a densely populated area, the county was reestablished in about 688 under the Tang dynasty, but since there was a namesake in present-day Jinhua, Zhejiang, it was named after Jintan, a hill of Mao Mountain.
Location
In 1987, the County comprised 22 towns, with the county government located in Jincheng town. On November 10, 1993, Jintan was reclassified from a county and officially became a city. The county was part of Changzhou, Jiangsu province. In 2015, Jintan County has been changed to Jintan District.
Jintan has a total area of . The total land area is , and water covers an area of . , it has a permanent resident population of 552,047. Jintan is a 2-3 hour bus ride from Shanghai, and the driving distance from Jintan to Nanjing is one and a half hours.
Administrative divisions
At present, Jintan District has 3 communities and 6 towns.
Economy
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
|+The total economic output of Jintan
!
!2003
!2004
!2005
!2006
!2007
!2008
!2009
!2010
!2011
!2012
!2013
!2014
!2015
!2016
!2017
!2018年
!2019
!2020
|-
|GDP/Billion Yuan (Renminbi)
|101
|122.1
|149
|182
|223
|263
|261.4
|308.3
|365.1
|373.81
|406.12
|471.48
|525.49
|600.02
|708.34
|801.93
|908.6
|973.15
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|Per capita GDP/ Yuan (Renminbi).
|18650
|22594
|27567
|33854
|41023
|48257
|47858
|56000
|65946
|67129
|72755
|84495
|94090
|107242
|126376
|142819
|161514
|166300
|}
Notable people
- David Ji (born 1952), Chinese-American electronics entrepreneur who co-founded Apex Digital, and was held against his will in China for months without charges during a business dispute
- Hua Luogeng (1910–1985), mathematician and politician
- Xifeng Wu, Chinese-American cancer epidemiologist
- Duan Yucai (1735–1815), philologist
- Yang Li, activist