17 Facts About Xuzhou

Xuzhou, known as Pengcheng in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China.

Xuzhou is a central city of Huaihai Economic Zone and Xuzhou metropolitan area.

Xuzhou is an important node city of the country's Belt and Road Initiative, and an international new energy base.

Xuzhou has won titles such as the National City of Civility and the United Nations Habitat Scroll of Honour award.

Xuzhou is a major city among the top 500 cities in the world by scientific research outputs, as tracked by the Nature Index.

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Xuzhou'story relates that Peng or Great Peng, the transitions from a tribe to a chiefdom contained within the boundary of the city.

Xuzhou put the mutiny down by executing part of the garrison troops and disbanded the rest, which became thugs and loot later.

Xuzhou captured the city again after the Mongolian army left.

Xuzhou had a long period of prosperity during the Ming dynasty.

Guo Yingqiu as the representative of the CPC went to Xuzhou to negotiate a regional truce, since 10 February 1946.

Xuzhou is of strategic importance for linking South China and North China.

Xuzhou has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate, with cool, dry winters, warm springs, long, hot and humid summers, and crisp autumns.

Xuzhou was a regional centre for education, but two defunct institutions once chose their sites within the city: Provincial College of Kiangsu and North China Theological Seminary.

Xuzhou is deemed one of earlier Buddhist centres in China supposedly because the Emperor Ming of Han mentioned that the then Prince of Chu Liu Ying built a "temple for Buddha".

Xuzhou is the sixth city which has a fifth Ring Road in China, and is the only city in Jiangsu which has a fifth Ring Road.

Xuzhou is the only city which has three huge railway stations in Jiangsu Province.

Xuzhou is headquarters of the 12th Group Army of the People's Liberation Army, one of the three group armies that compose the Nanjing Military Region responsible for the defense of China's eastern coast and possible military engagement with Taiwan.