15 Facts About Nantong

Nantong is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jiangsu province, China.

Nantong is a vital river port bordering Yancheng to the north; Taizhou to the west; Suzhou, Wuxi and Shanghai to the south across the river; and the East China Sea to the east.

Nantong has a humid subtropical climate, with four distinct seasons.

When Tongzhou finally regained prefecture status in 1724 during the Qing dynasty, it was renamed to its present name Nantong to avoid confusion with another administrative division named Tongzhou, located near Beijing.

Nantong was the first place in China to be developed into a modern city after the collapse of the Qing dynasty, and was the birthplace of China's modern industry.

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Prosperity of Nantong has traditionally depended on salt production on the nearby seacoast, rice and cotton agriculture, and manufacture of cotton and silk textiles, especially Nantong blue calico.

Nantong then developed an industrial complex that included flour, oil, and silk reeling mills, a distillery, and a machinery shop.

Nantong founded a shipping line and reclaimed saline agricultural land to the east of Nantong for cotton production.

People in the city of Nantong speak a unique dialect which sounds nothing like standard Mandarin or any other dialect, and it is holds distinctive differences from surrounding dialects.

Nantong was historically known as an agricultural area and a traditional site for salt-making.

Nantong is one of the 14 port cities opened to foreign investment projects under China's current policies of modernization.

Nantong was traditionally an industrial city, especially around the turn of the 20th century, specializing in salt and cotton textile production.

Today, Nantong is one of many fast-growing coastal cities in China.

Nantong has developed rapidly in the last 25 years, as have most of the cities in the Yangtze River Delta.

Nantong has contributed to China's educational development with several firsts: establishment of the first school for teacher training, the first folk museum, the first school for industrial textile manufacturing, the first school for embroidery, the first drama school, and the first school for the deaf and the blind.