Yancheng is a famous sea salt producing area in Chinese history. "Huai salt comes out, and the world is salty." Huai salt is the treasure of the world and the essence of a country, which is universally recognized. Yancheng was not called Yancheng originally, but Du Yan in the Western Han Dynasty. The ancestors "boiled the sea to get salt" on the beach in northern Jiangsu. In order to transport the dried salt out, they successively dug salt rivers, so there was a sea salt culture of "boiling the sea for profit and transporting it by canal".
It was not until the Eastern Jin Dynasty that Yancheng was renamed, but there was actually no city in Yancheng at that time, just a distribution center for salt making and selling.
2. Yancheng fell in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
1March 30th, 938, Yancheng was bombed by Japanese planes for the first time. On April 24, the Japanese army was committed by Dongtai North; On the 26th, Yancheng fell. Zuo Shi Duishima, the Japanese aggressor army, recorded in his diary: "On April 26th, the 13th year of Showa, the big regiment-2000 meters south of Yancheng ... we finally arrived in Yancheng, and Yancheng in the fire was terrible."
More than 58,700 original houses in Yancheng were burned by more than 80%. On the afternoon of 26th, Yancheng fell, and the Japanese army entered Yancheng, greedily plundering property and brutally killing civilians. The Red Cross alone detained more than 480 bodies. The thousand-year-old city with a population of 654.38+0.3 million has become a hell on earth.
3. The New Fourth Army rebuilt its military headquarters in Yancheng.
After the Southern Anhui Incident, according to the order of the Central Military Commission194165438+120, on the basis of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army of the New Fourth Army in Central China, the troops were rebuilt in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, with Chen Yi as the acting commander and Liu Shaoqi as the political commissar. The troops were reorganized into seven divisions and an independent brigade. On the 25th, the new army was formally established in Yancheng, with headquarters, political department and political department.
In July of the same year 1 1, in order to direct the summer "mopping up" of the puppet troops against Japan, the military department of the New Fourth Army withdrew from Yancheng; 1943 1 The Supply Department and the Ministry of Health merged into the Health Supply Department. 1944 10 The Ministry of Health and Supply was re-divided into the Ministry of Supply and the Ministry of Health.
Yancheng in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was occupied by Japanese puppet troops four times. During the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, the New Fourth Army changed its headquarters, but the Japanese puppet troops never established themselves on this land. In the past eight years, the New Fourth Army has fought more than 24,600 times with the Japanese puppet troops and killed 293,700 people. The New Fourth Army has also grown from 1 10,000 people when it was first established to 2 1 10,000 people, and more than 80,000 soldiers and more than 300 cadres at or above the regimental level died heroically.
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Yancheng is a city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, which governs the urban area, Dongtai City, Dafeng City and six counties, namely Xiangshui, Binhai, Funing, Jianhu, Sheyang and Du Yan, with a total area of 6,543,800 square kilometers and a population of 7,956,000. Yancheng is an ancient and emerging city, which has a history of more than 2 100 years since it was founded by salt in the Western Han Dynasty. 1in March, 1988, Yancheng was approved by the State Council as a coastal economic open zone.
The coastline of Yancheng City is 582 kilometers long, accounting for 56% of Jiangsu Province. Yancheng has unique tidal flat resources, covering an area of more than 6.8 million mu, accounting for 75% of the whole province. It can be developed and utilized 2.4 million mu in the near future, which is the area with the greatest potential of reserve land resources in Jiangsu Province. The beach is rich in sea salt, prawns, shellfish and more than 500 kinds of plants such as reeds, Chinese herbal medicines and grasses.
Yancheng has a vast water area with an inland water surface of more than 2 million mu, which is rich in fish, shrimp, crab, turtle, water chestnut and lotus root. It is an important industrial and agricultural production base in Jiangsu Province. Since the reform and opening up, through deepening reform, opening wider to the outside world and accelerating scientific and technological progress, the national economy has flourished and various social undertakings have continuously made new achievements. ?
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