Guangde

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Guangde has jurisdiction over six towns and ten townships.

Administrative divisions

Guangde City is divided to 5 towns and 4 townships.[1]

Towns
  • Taozhou (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Xinhang (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Qiucun (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Baidian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Shijie (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
Townships
  • Lucun Township (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Sihe Township (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Yangtan Township (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Dongting Township (Script error: No such module "Lang".)

Industry

Guangde provides the terrain for the 5.67-square-kilometer automobile proving ground (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) with Script error: No such module "convert". of test roads, opened on September 22, 2012, and managed by Shanghai GM and the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), both joint ventures of SAIC Motor with GM China.[2][3]

Climate

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Transport

Chinese manned space program

On July 19, 1964, China launched and recovered its first successful experimental biological rocket carrying eight white mice from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Base 603 launch site in Shijie Town (Script error: No such module "Lang".) within the city.[4]

Culture

Prior to the late 19th century, most residents spoke a Jianghuai Mandarin dialect. Thereafter many people in the southern and eastern parts of the city began to speak Old Guangde dialect, a Taihu Wu Chinese dialect closely related to that of Suzhou dialect and Shanghainese. Most residents also speak the Southwestern Mandarin Guangde dialect.

See also

References

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