Shuyang County, referred to as "Shu" for short, is located in the north of Jiangsu Province and is one of the three pilot counties directly under Jiangsu Province. It is the only county in northern Jiangsu that has been cultivated as a type II metropolis. It is located at the junction of Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Huai 'an and Suqian, with a total area of 2,298 square kilometers.
As of 202 1, 10, Shuyang County is under the jurisdiction of 1 national economic and technological development zone, with 6 streets and 23 towns, 1 township [28], and the county people's government is located in Shucheng Street.
According to the data of the seventh national census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the resident population of Shuyang County was 1674978, and the registered population was 1986500.
Shuyang is named after being located in the Yang of Shushui, which was called Houqiu and Huaiwen in ancient times. In the Western Han Dynasty, Houqiu County was established first. In the seventh year of Jiande in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (578), Huaiwen County was changed to Shuyang County. Shuyang is the hometown of calligraphy in China, Huaihai drama in China and couplet culture in China.
There are 4 interchanges in the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, and there are 32 rivers such as Xinyi River and Huaishuxin River. By 20021year, the urban built-up area of Shuyang will reach 85 square kilometers and the population will be 717,800, making it the county with the largest built-up area and the most concentrated population in China.