13 Facts About Zhenjiang

Zhenjiang, alternately romanized as Chinkiang, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, China.

Zhenjiang was formerly the provincial capital of Jiangsu and remains as an important transportation hub.

Part of Zhenjiang was the possession of Ce, who was created the Marquess of Yi in the early Western Zhou.

Under the Qing, Zhenjiang was a city of half a million surrounded by a series of brick city walls up to 35 feet high.

Into the 1870s, Chaozhou merchants used their connections in Zhenjiang to make it a regional distribution center for opium purchased from the foreign merchants in Shanghai; when David Sassoon attempted to avoid taxation by delivering his cargoes directly to the opium merchants in Zhenjiang, the Chinese organized to intimidate his customers and then bought out his failed organization.

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Zhenjiang is still one of China's busiest ports for domestic commerce, serving as a hub for trade among Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shanghai.

Zhenjiang is most famous for its fragrant black vinegar, called Zhenjiang vinegar.

Formerly, households in Zhenjiang would prepare for the new year by eating a red-bean dish and avoiding rice.

Natural spring in a park on the edge of Zhenjiang has been famed since the Tang as the best in Jiangsu for making tea.

Zhenjiang is located in the convenient Yangtze River Delta transport corridor, at the crossroads of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze, and between the Shanghai and Nanjing economic regions.

Zhenjiang has been connected by rail since 1906, at the completion of the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway.

Zhenjiang is on the route of Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, and China National Highway 312.

Zhenjiang is home to the Silkworm Raising Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science of China.