Zigong, formed by the merger of the two former towns of Ziliujing and Gongjing, is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, southwestern China.
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12 Facts About Zigong
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The new city of Zigong has been modernizing since the late 1970s - but more rapidly since the early 1990s.
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Zigong is host to the Sichuan University of Science and Engineering as well as a new High Technology Zone.
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The people of Zigong believe its taste to be superior to the popular French sea salts such as Fleur de sel.
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Salt wells in Zigong were deeper and had better brine salinity - making for better yields in the salt extraction process.
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Zigong is located in the central Chinese Sichuan province, which was a large basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides and therefore somewhat isolated.
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The Zigong name is a combination of both older cities' names.
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Zigong has long been renowned as "Salt City" for its brine extraction techniques and the attendant salt-related culture.
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The humidity and fog of Zigong can be attributed to that it sits on what was once a vast inland sea.
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