🇨🇳 Tongling is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province. A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the south-west and Anqing to the west.
The prefecture-level city of Tongling administers 4 county-level divisions, including 3 districts and 1 county. • Tongguan District (铜官区) • Jiao District (郊区) • Yi'an District (义安区) • Zongyang County (枞阳县) In 2012, the provincial government made plans to cede Zongyang County from Anqing City to Tongling City, in order to grant the latter land across the Yangtze.
Tongling has been famous as a beautiful mountain city since its origins in the Han dynasty over 1500 years ago. Owing to its copper and tin deposits, it was an important centre in the past for bronze production. The scale of industrial activity gradually increased through the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties, the Japanese occupation of 1938–45, and especially under the Communist government since 1949.
1Economy Today the city's industrial base still revolves around the several nearby copper mines and copper processing operations. The local mineral resources also include : iron, coal, gold, silver, tin, Iron sulfide, plus more than twenty other rare minerals associated with them such as nickel, cadmium, gallium, molybdenum, germanium and selenium. Other important industries include chemical works, textiles, building materials, electronics, machinery and food processing. Long a hub of water transportation, in 1995 Tongling became the site of Anhui Province's first highway bridge spanning the Yangtze River.
Although Tongling City is mostly mountainous, the surrounding flatlands are rich agricultural regions producing rice, wheat, cotton, beans, garlic, herbal medicines and ginger. Large amounts of fish are also harvested in the region.
Tongling is the centre for conservation efforts to preserve the last remaining Yangtze freshwater dolphins. Two semi-natural reserves have been established in the Tongling area, in the Tongling and Shishou oxbow lakes, but as yet no dolphins have been successfully captured and moved from the river into the lakes.
Tongling has developed at a rapid speed in the past 5 years, i.e. 2003 to 2007.The average GDP per capita has reached ¥44,870 in 2008 which is the second in Anhui province. And the increasing rate is 13%, far more than the average increasing rate of the whole province which is 12.8%.And it aims to achieve $10000 GDP per capita in 2012.
As of 2016, Tongling City, administered 3 districts and 1 county, the total population of 1.7185 million people. GDP of 95.73 billion yuan. By industry, the added value of the primary industry was 4.89 billion yuan, the added value of the secondary industry was 56.96 billion yuan, and the added value of the tertiary industry was 33.87 billion yuan. The three industrial structures are 5.1: 59.5: 35.4. According to the resident population, the annual per capita GDP is 59,960 yuan.
1Transport As of November 2017, Tongling has two bridges across the Yangtze River.
1Rail Tongling is served by the Nanjing–Tongling, Tongling–Jiujiang, Lujiang-Tongling Railways, Nanjing–Anqing Intercity Railway and Hefei-Fuzhou High-Speed Railway.
1Tongling has a population of over 842,675 people. Tongling also forms the centre of the wider Tongling Prefecture which has a population of over 1,311,726 people.
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Locations Near: Tongling 117.811,30.945
🇨🇳 Chizhou 117.492,30.665 d: 43.5
🇨🇳 Wuhu 118.364,31.344 d: 68.9
🇨🇳 Chaohu 117.89,31.624 d: 75.9
🇨🇳 Anqing 117.115,30.532 d: 80.8
🇨🇳 Ma'anshan 118.35,31.7 d: 98.3
🇨🇳 Xuanzhou 118.757,30.955 d: 90.2
🇨🇳 Maanshan 118.507,31.669 d: 104.2
🇨🇳 Hefei 117.281,31.864 d: 113.9
Antipodal to: Tongling -62.189,-30.945
🇦🇷 Rafaela -61.483,-31.267 d: 19939
🇦🇷 Sastre -61.833,-31.75 d: 19919.4
🇦🇷 Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz -60.7,-31.633 d: 19854.2
🇦🇷 Santa Fe -60.7,-31.633 d: 19854.2
🇦🇷 Oliva -63.567,-32.033 d: 19837
🇦🇷 Marcos Juárez -62.1,-32.7 d: 19819.8
🇦🇷 Bell Ville -62.683,-32.633 d: 19821.6
🇦🇷 Paraná -60.533,-31.733 d: 19835.1
🇦🇷 Jesús María -64.1,-30.983 d: 19832.8
🇦🇷 Villa María -63.267,-32.583 d: 19806.4