Guangde

Guangde
Guangde; 广德市; Kwangteh
	County-level city
	Taijidong, Guangde, Anhui
	Guangde is the easternmost division in this map of Xuancheng
	Xuancheng in Anhui
	Coordinates: 30°52′41″N 119°25′16″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Anhui
Prefecture-level city	Xuancheng
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Guangde
Simplified Chinese	广德
Traditional Chinese	廣德
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Guǎngdé
Wu
Romanization	kuaon teh

Guangde is a county-level city in the southeast of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Jiangsu to the north and Zhejiang to the east. It is the easternmost county-level division of Anhui and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city Xuancheng within Anhui Province. The city has a population of 510,000 and an area of 2,165 km² (836 sq mi). The seat of government is at Taozhou Town.

Guangde has jurisdiction over six towns and ten townships.

Industry

Guangde provides the terrain for the 5.67-square-kilometer automobile proving ground (31.044266°N 119.425751°E / 31.044266; 119.425751) with 60 km (37 mi) of test roads, opened on September 22, 2012 and managed by Shanghai GM and the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), both joint ventures of SAIC Motor with GM China.[1][2]

Transport

China National Highway 318

Chinese manned space program

On July 19, 1964 China launched and recovered its first successful experimental biological rocket carrying eight white mice from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Base 603 launch site in Shijie Town (誓节镇) within the city.[3]

Culture

Prior to the late 19th century, most residents spoke a Jianghuai Mandarin dialect. Thereafter many people in the southern and eastern parts of the city began to speak Old Guangde dialect, a Taihu Wu Chinese dialect closely related to that of Suzhou dialect and Shanghainese. Most residents also speak the Southwestern Mandarin Guangde dialect.

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References

"SGM/PATAC Guangde Proving Ground Opened". patac.com.cn (Press release). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
"About GM China". gmchina.com. 2013. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
军事史话 <第七部> 导弹部队史话 [Military History Part 7 - History of the Rocket Division] (in Chinese). March 1, 2008. Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved March 10, 2011.

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[PATAC-News_2012-09-22-1] "SGM/PATAC Guangde Proving Ground Opened". patac.com.cn (Press release). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

[GM-China_about-2] "About GM China". gmchina.com. 2013. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

[3] 军事史话 <第七部> 导弹部队史话 [Military History Part 7 - History of the Rocket Division] (in Chinese). March 1, 2008. Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved March 10, 2011.