15 Facts About Yangzhou

Yangzhou, postal romanization Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China.

Yangzhou was one of the first cities to benefit from one of the earliest world bank loans in China, used to construct Yangzhou thermal power station in 1994.

Yangzhou was briefly the temporary seat of the Song dynasty government between 1128 and 1129, when most of North China had been conquered by the Jurchens during the Jin–Song Wars.

In 1280, Yangzhou was the site of a massive gunpowder explosion when the bomb store of the Weiyang arsenal accidentally caught fire.

The discovery of the 1342 tomb of Katarina Vilioni, member of an Italian trading family in Yangzhou, does suggest the existence of a thriving Italian community in the city in the 14th century.

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Yangzhou served as a supervisor in the province of Zhenjiang, a region neighboring Yangzhou.

Famed at that time and since for literature, art, and the gardens of its merchant families, many of which were visited by the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors during their Southern Tours, the Qing-era Yangzhou has been the focus of intensive research by historians.

Yangzhou riot in 1868 was a pivotal moment of Anglo-Chinese relations during late Qing China that almost led to war.

Yangzhou has a subtropical monsoon climate with humid changeable wind; longer winters for about 4 months, summers 3 months and shorter springs and autumns, 2 months respectively; frost-free period of 222 days and annual average sunshine of 2177 hours.

Yangzhou has one Yangtze River crossing, the Runyang Yangtze River Bridge complex, which has one of the longest suspension bridge spans in the world, and carries the G4011 Yangzhou–Liyang Expressway to Zhenjiang.

In 2014, Yangzhou's government approved plans for the construction of a subway system, which will initially include two lines.

The route, starting from Yangzhou station, has eight stops, and passes by such scenic spots of the Slender West Lake, Daming Temple, Imperial Dock, Siwang Pagoda, Wenchang Pagoda and Shita Temple.

Yangzhou is the site of Chengxi shipyard, large shipyard where bulk carriers and other types of large ships are built.

Yangzhou is famous for its many well preserved Yangzhou style gardens.

Yangzhou had a hall built directly behind the one erected by his master, and called it Guling Hall.