Zhangpu is a county under Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. Located on the banks of the Jiulong River , Zhangzhou borders the cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou to the northeast, Longyan City to the northwest and the province of Guangdong to the southwest.Zhangzhou...

 municipality (or prefectural city

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

) in southernmost Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

. The governmental seat is at SuiAn Town (绥安镇).

Zhangpu is bordered by the County-level city

County-level city

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 of Longhai in the north, the counties of Pinghe

Pinghe County

Pinghe County lies in the prefecture level city of Zhangzhou, Fujian province, PRC.-Administrative Division:The administrative centre or seat of Pinghe County is Xiaoxi .-Towns :...

 and Yunxiao

Yunxiao County

Yunxiao county is a county in Zhangzhou prefecture level city, Fujian province, China. The population of the county is 392 000 residents...

 in the west, and the Taiwan Strait

Taiwan Strait

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 in the south and east. The major Shenyang

Shenyang

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--Haikou

Haikou

Hǎikǒu , is the capital and most populous city of Hainan Province, in the People's Republic of China. It is situated on the northern coast of Hainan, by the mouth of the Nandu River...

 coastal expressway cuts through the county, keeping about midway between the coast and the old National Route 324.

Administration

Besides SuiAn

Sui'an Town

Sui'an is the chief town of Zhangpu County, in Zhangzhou, FJ. It is the seat of Zhangpu's government, Lower People's Court and local branches of CPC and PSB....

, Zhangpu oversees 16 other towns (镇): Fotan (佛昙), Chihu (赤湖), Jiuzhen (旧镇), Duxun (杜浔), Xuemei (霞美), Gongfu (官浔), Changqiao (长桥), Qianting (前亭), Shentu (深土), Pantuo (盘陀), Maping (马坪), Shiliu (石榴), Shaxi (沙西), Dananban (大南坂), LiuAo (六鳌) and Gulei (古雷). The last two share names with the long peninsulas where they are situated, which project into the Taiwan Strait to form large bays.

There are also four townships (乡): Nanpu (南浦), Chitu (赤土), Huxi (湖西) and Chiling (赤岭). The latter two are protected ethnic (minority nation) townships (民族乡), both for She nation

She people

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 citizens.

Tourist Attractions of Historical Interest

In Huxi She-nation Ethnic Township (湖西畲族乡) there is a fortified compound called Zhaojiabao (赵家堡), where a party of Southern Song

Song Dynasty

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 royals in flight from the Mongol conquistadors of the late 13th century took up a residence long in term and low in profile. With the Ming

Ming Dynasty

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 restoration of Han Chinese

Han Chinese

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 ethnic supremacy to the empire some ninety years and five generations later, the Zhao family (赵家) revealed their pedigree and the compound received its current name.

Zhaojiabao has its own exit right on the Shenyang—Haikou expressway, about 40 minutes south of Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. Located on the banks of the Jiulong River , Zhangzhou borders the cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou to the northeast, Longyan City to the northwest and the province of Guangdong to the southwest.Zhangzhou...

(ie of its central urban district Xiangcheng

Xiangcheng District, Zhangzhou

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).