Zhenjiang City, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, one of the central cities of the Yangtze River Delta, located in the southern part of Jiangsu Province, the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal "10" intersection, between the latitude of 31 ° 37 ′ ~ 32 ° 19 ′, the longitude of 118 ° 58 ′ ~ 119 ° 58 ′ between the southeast of Changzhou City, the west of Nanjing, the north of the city of Yangzhou, Taizhou City in the north. As of 2022, the city has three districts and three county-level cities under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 3,840 square kilometers, and at the end of 2023, the resident population was 3,226,600 people.
Zhenjiang City is a national historical and cultural city, with extremely rich cultural deposits. In the Spring and Autumn period, it was called "Zhu Fang", in the Three Kingdoms period, it was "Jingkou", in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was set up in Jingkou as "South Xuzhou", and after the unification of Sui Dynasty, it was reset as "Runzhou". "Zhenjiang has been known as Zhenjiang since the Northern Song Dynasty, and was the capital of Jiangsu Province during the Republic of China period. Zhenjiang has always been a place of war, choke the north and south, the victory of the landscape, Zhongling Yuxiu, generation not lack of talent. Successive generations of writers and artists have come here to leave a thousand famous articles. Zhenjiang has more than 3,000 years of establishment history, emerged Liu Yu (send slave), Xiao Tong, Shen Kuo, Mi Fu, Zongze, Liu Innocenti, Ge Hong, Mao Yisheng, and other characters of the ages, leaving behind many historical relics, poems, texts and legends and stories, "Hold Parker", "Shishu Xinyao", "Selected Writings of Zhaoming", "Wenxin DiaoLong", "Mengxi BianNan" and other heirloom masterpieces of Chinese culture, is a brilliant treasure. Stories such as "The White Lady's Water Flooding San Francisco" and "Liu Bei's Marriage Recruitment at Ganlu Temple" are popular. There are Beigu Mountain, Jinshan Temple, Xijindu, Ganlu Temple, Mengxi Garden and other attractions.
Zhenjiang City is the core city of Nanjing Metropolitan Area, an important part of the Yangzi River City Cluster and an important transportation hub in East China, the State Council approved the determination of the Yangtze River Delta, an important port, scenic tourism city, with Jiangsu University, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology and other 9 colleges and universities. 6 railroads, 6 highways across the territory, the Yangtze River Basin, 100 million tons of port of Zhenjiang, through the river to the sea.
In 2023, Zhenjiang City will realize a gross regional product of 526.407 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3% over the previous year.
