Qishuyan District
Encyclopedia
Qishuyan District is a district under the jurisdiction of Changzhou
in Jiangsu
province of the People's Republic of China
. The local language is the Changzhou dialect
of Wu Chinese. The postal code for the district is 213011. It covers an area of 31.58 square kilometers. In 2005 the total population was recorded at 80,200 people.
Qishuyan district includes Liyang
and Jintan
, two county level cities
in the Changzhou prefecture
. It is also home to Tianmu Lake
after which a local beer
is named.
Changzhou
Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling, Jinling, and Wujin. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Zhenjiang to the...
in Jiangsu
Jiangsu
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...
province of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
. The local language is the Changzhou dialect
Changzhou dialect
Changzhou dialect is a dialect of Wu, a Sino-Tibetan language, and belongs to the Taihu dialect group. It is spoken in the city of Changzhou and surrounding areas in Jiangsu province of China. It has many similarities with the Shanghainese and Suzhou dialect, but is largely not comprehensible...
of Wu Chinese. The postal code for the district is 213011. It covers an area of 31.58 square kilometers. In 2005 the total population was recorded at 80,200 people.
Qishuyan district includes Liyang
Liyang
Liyang is a city in the southwest of Jiangsu province of Eastern China. It is administratively a county-level city under the administration of Changzhou City, and in 1999 had a population of 781,430.-Administration:...
and Jintan
Jintan
Jintan is a county-level city within Changzhou in Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China.-Location:Jintan, is located in Jiangsu province in the south, surrounded by Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. The name Jintan developed from Jinshan county, which continued to be used up to now...
, two county level cities
County-level city
A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....
in the Changzhou prefecture
Prefecture
A prefecture is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.-Antiquity:...
. It is also home to Tianmu Lake
Tianmu Lake
Tian Mu Lake is a lake which is 8 kilometres south of Liyang City in Jiangsu Province, China. It was listed as a provincial tourist resort in 1993 and is currently grade AAAA nature reserveafter graded as such in 2001. The lake is about 300 square kilometres in area, and its depth ranges from an...
after which a local beer
Beer
Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...
is named.