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Haimen
海门区 | |
|---|---|
| Nickname: The River Gateway to the Sea (江海门户) | |
 Haimen in Nantong | |
  Haimen Location of the city center in Jiangsu | |
| Coordinates: 31°52′08″N 121°10′55″E / 31.869°N 121.182°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| Prefecture-level city | Nantong |
| Established (as a county) | 958 |
| Became independent subprefecture | 1768 |
| Became county-level city | June 1994 |
| Became district | July 2020 |
| Seat | Haimen Town |
| Government | |
| • Deputy Mayor | Lu Yifei (陆一飞) (Chinese Communist Party) |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,148.77 km2 (443.54 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 4.96 m (16.3 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 5.2 m (17 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 2.5 m (8.2 ft) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
• Total | 991,782 |
| • Density | 863.343/km2 (2,236.05/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 226100[5] |
| Area code | 0513[5] |
| Website | www |
Haimen (simplified Chinese: 海门; traditional Chinese: 海門; pinyin: Hǎimén; lit. 'sea gate', Qihai dialect: [haɪ.məŋ], Shanghai: [hɛ̝.məŋ]) is a district of Nantong, Jiangsu province. Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River estuary, it faces Shanghai across the river. Renowned as the "Gateway to the Yangtze River and the Yellow Sea" and "Little-Pudong", the district covers about 1,149 square kilometers and had a permanent population nearly 1 million in 2025.[6] With its coastline along the Yangtze and the Yellow Sea, Haimen has historically been famous for fishing and salt production, and in modern times has developed into an important port-based industrial hub.
The area that is now Haimen was formed from silt deposits from the Yangtze River. Several sandbanks, including Dongzhou (东洲; 東洲) and Buzhou (布洲), joined with the mainland in the Tang dynasty. In 958 CE, during the Later Zhou dynasty in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Haimen County was established with the county seat at Dongzhou Town.[7] At this time, Haimen and Jinghai District (静海) were merged into the newly formed Tongzhou District (通州).[8]
Because the mouth of the Yangtze River moved northward during the Ming dynasty, Haimen has dealt with flooding that destroyed parts of the county, including Lüsi (吕四; 呂四), Yudong (余东; 余東), and Sijia (Chinese: 四甲).[7]
In 1672, under the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty, the seat moved to Jinghai Township (静海乡; 靜海鄉). Starting from 1701, the river's course moved south, creating more than 40 new sandbanks. In 1768, the county became an independent subprefecture with the seat moving to Maojia Town (茅家镇; 茅家鎮).[7]
In the late Qing period, the industrialist Zhang Jian was born in Changle Town, Haimen. In 1895, he founded the Dasheng Cotton Mill, which spurred the rise of China's modern textile industry and helped make Haimen and Nantong major centers of commerce and industry.[citation needed]
In 1912, one year after the Republic of China was founded, Haimen once again became a county. However, in 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, Haimen became governed under Nantong Prefecture. Once county-level governments started to reappear in 1983, Haimen was reinstated as a county, and in June 1994, Haimen became a county-level city.[7]
In 2020, Haimen became a district of Nantong.[9]
Haimen District is one of the economically strong districts along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province. In 2023, the regional GDP reached 16.9 billion RMB, representing a 6% increase. General public budget revenue was 750 million RMB, actual foreign investment reached US$360 million, construction output was 22.33 billion RMB, and total imports and exports reached 32.24 billion RMB, of which cross-border e-commerce accounted for 6.37 billion RMB. In 2024, the official plan projected GDP of 17.72 billion RMB, a 6.5% growth, with the per capita disposable income of urban residents expected to reach 67,400 RMB.[6]
Haimen has long been noted for textiles, garments, and the construction industry, and holds titles such as "Hometown of Elevators in China" and "Hometown of Construction."[citation needed]
Haimen has long been celebrated as the "hometown of education." Notable figures include industrialist Zhang Jian, who was born in Haimen and not only advanced modern textile industry but also founded institutions such as Nantong Normal School and Nantong Museum.[citation needed]
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Haimen has a humid subtropical climate (Cwa). This means that Haimen experiences four distinct seasons; the summers are hot and the winters are cold. The summers are rainier than the other seasons, and the summer rains usually bring flooding.[10]
The average temperature is 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in Haimen. January is the coldest month, and July is the hottest month. The hottest temperature recorded in Haimen was 39.7 °C (103.5 °F), occurring on August 8 2013. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −9.4 °C (15.1 °F) on January 8, 2021.[10][11]
The average yearly rainfall is 1,056.3 millimetres (41.59 in). The wettest year was 1975 with 1,500.7 millimetres (59.08 in), and the driest year was 1978 with 654.6 millimetres (25.77 in).[10]
| Climate data for Haimen, elevation 3 m (9.8 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.1 (68.2) |
25.5 (77.9) |
32.5 (90.5) |
32.8 (91.0) |
34.1 (93.4) |
36.8 (98.2) |
38.0 (100.4) |
39.7 (103.5) |
37.1 (98.8) |
32.6 (90.7) |
27.9 (82.2) |
21.9 (71.4) |
39.7 (103.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.5 (45.5) |
9.6 (49.3) |
13.9 (57.0) |
19.8 (67.6) |
25.1 (77.2) |
27.8 (82.0) |
31.8 (89.2) |
31.4 (88.5) |
27.6 (81.7) |
22.8 (73.0) |
16.9 (62.4) |
10.3 (50.5) |
20.4 (68.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.5 (38.3) |
5.2 (41.4) |
9.2 (48.6) |
14.6 (58.3) |
20.0 (68.0) |
23.7 (74.7) |
27.9 (82.2) |
27.4 (81.3) |
23.3 (73.9) |
18.0 (64.4) |
12.2 (54.0) |
5.9 (42.6) |
15.9 (60.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.3 (32.5) |
1.7 (35.1) |
5.2 (41.4) |
10.0 (50.0) |
15.7 (60.3) |
20.4 (68.7) |
24.7 (76.5) |
24.5 (76.1) |
19.9 (67.8) |
14.0 (57.2) |
8.3 (46.9) |
2.3 (36.1) |
12.3 (54.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −9.4 (15.1) |
−7.1 (19.2) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
5.5 (41.9) |
11.1 (52.0) |
16.9 (62.4) |
16.1 (61.0) |
10.7 (51.3) |
3.0 (37.4) |
−2.9 (26.8) |
−8.5 (16.7) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 56.6 (2.23) |
53.3 (2.10) |
74.0 (2.91) |
69.0 (2.72) |
84.1 (3.31) |
210.1 (8.27) |
162.5 (6.40) |
192.4 (7.57) |
100 (3.9) |
55.2 (2.17) |
53.4 (2.10) |
37.8 (1.49) |
1,148.4 (45.17) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 9.7 | 9.5 | 11.0 | 10.7 | 11.0 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 12.5 | 9.5 | 7.3 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 123.4 |
| Average snowy days | 2.2 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 5.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 77 | 78 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 82 | 82 | 84 | 82 | 78 | 78 | 75 | 79 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 128.3 | 128.2 | 154.6 | 179.5 | 189.1 | 139.2 | 195.3 | 209.7 | 180.6 | 176.5 | 145.9 | 145.1 | 1,972 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 40 | 41 | 42 | 46 | 44 | 33 | 45 | 51 | 49 | 51 | 47 | 47 | 45 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[12][13] | |||||||||||||
Haimen is divided into twenty-one towns and one township, the pene-exclave of Haiyong on Chongming. These towns are further divided into 231 villages and three fish villages.[14]
- It is only township and its area is 9 km2 (3.5 sq mi). It is pene-enclave on Chongming Island, most of which belongs to Shanghai.
With easy access to the Sea and Yangtze River, transportation is very convenient. Less than 2 hours driving distance to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, about 40 mins driving distance to Nantong Xingdong Airport and Nantong Railway Station, which has high speed bullet train. There are multiple entries to the national Highway system, e.g. G40 Expressway. Close to Port of Nantong, Haimen is currently developing its own county level sea port in DongZaoGang town. There is an easy access to Sutong Yangtze River Bridge to cross the Yangtze, as well as ferry service.
Haimen railway station opened in 2019 as an intermediate stop on the Nanjing–Qidong railway.
Places adjacent to Haimen, Nantong | |
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Source: Wikipedia. Article content is retrieved live through the MediaWiki API.
Haimen (simplified Chinese: 海门; traditional Chinese: 海門; pinyin: Hǎimén; lit. 'sea gate', Qihai dialect: [haɪ.məŋ], Shanghai: [hɛ̝.məŋ]) is a district of Nantong, Jiangsu province. Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River estuary, it faces Shanghai across the river. Renowned as the "Gateway to the Yangtze River and the Yellow Sea" and "Little-Pudong", the district covers about 1,149 square kilometers and had a permanent population nearly 1 million in 2025. With its coastline along the Yangtze and the Yellow Sea, Haimen has historically been famous for fishing and salt production, and in modern times has developed into an important port-based industrial hub.
Taihu Wu (吳語太湖片) or Northern Wu (北部吳語) is a Wu Chinese language spoken in much of the southern part of the province of Jiangsu, including Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, the southern part of Nantong, Jingjiang and Danyang; the municipality of Shanghai; and the northern part of Zhejiang province, including Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Huzhou, and Jiaxing. A notable exception is the dialect of the town of Jinxiang, which is a linguistic exclave of Taihu Wu in Zhenan Min-speaking Cangnan county of Wenzhou prefecture in Zhejiang province. Speakers in regions around Taihu Lake and Hangzhou Bay, are the largest population among all Wu speakers. Taihu Wu dialects such as Shanghainese, Shaoxing Wu, and Ningbo Wu are mutually intelligible even for L2 Taihu speakers.
Tong–Tai (Chinese: 通泰), also known as Tai–Ru (Chinese: 泰如), is a group of Lower Yangtze Mandarin dialects spoken in the east-central part of Jiangsu province in the prefecture-level cities of Nantong (formerly Tongzhou) and Taizhou. The alternative name refers to the county-level city of Rugao within Nantong. This region includes the areas which are to the north of Yangtze River and to the east of Grand Canal. There are about 11.37 million speakers there (in 2004) and this region occupies about 15,000 square kilometers. This region can also be divided further into three districts: the west, the middle and the east. The west part includes Taizhou, Jiangyan, west of Hai'an, west of Dongtai, Dafeng, Xinghua, east of Jiangdu. The middle part includes Rugao, Rudong, Taixing, east of Dongtai, east of Hai'an and southwest of Jingjiang. The east part includes downtown of Nantong and southwest of Tongzhou. These vernaculars are distinguished by the difference in consonants. However these districts used to be the region of the Wu culture, so there are many features of Wu Chinese in these vernaculars, especially the vernacular in the middle part, known as middle Tong-Tai dialect. It is closely bounded on the Changzhou part in the Wu region. Conversely, Benjamin Ao argues that based on the aspiration of devoiced initials, the merger between the Middle Chinese velar nasal initial and glottal stop initial, and the merger/loss of glottal stop finals, the Tai-Tong dialects are most closely related to Huizhou Chinese rather than any other neighbouring grouping.
Nantong is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jiangsu province, China. Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, near the river mouth. Nantong is a vital river port bordering Yancheng to the north; Taizhou to the west; Suzhou, Wuxi and Shanghai to the south across the river; and the East China Sea to the east. Its population was 7,726,635 as of the 2020 census, 3,766,534 of whom lived in the built-up area made up of three urban districts. On September 26, 2004, the first World Metropolitan Development Forum was held in Nantong. In 2005, Nantong had a GDP growth of 15.4%, the highest growth rate in Jiangsu province, and in 2016 Nantong's GDP had a total of about 675 billion yuan, ranking 21st in the whole country. Although the city took a blow from the economic depression of the 1930s, as well as the Japanese occupation of the 1930s and 40s, Nantong has remained an important center for the textile industry. Because of its deepwater harbor and connections to inland navigational canals, it was one of 14 port cities opened to foreign investment in recent Chinese economic reforms.
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