Taozhuang is a town of

Jiashan County Jiashan County () is a county in the north of Zhejiang Province, bordering Shanghai to the northeast and Jiangsu province to the north. It is administered by the prefecture-level city of Jiaxing. Jiashan is nicknamed "The Land of Fish and Rice", ...

Zhejiang Province ) , translit_lang1_type2 = , translit_lang1_info2 = ( Hangzhounese) ( Ningbonese) (Wenzhounese) , image_skyline = 玉甑峰全貌 - panoramio.jpg , image_caption = View of the Yandang Mountains , image_map = Zhejiang i ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. Located in the northwest of the county, Taozhuang is famous for Lake Fenhu and its steel market.

History

Name

Taozhuang was known as Liuxi (柳溪). During the Shaoxing Era of the reign of the

Emperor Gaozong of Song } Emperor Gaozong of Song (12 June 11079 November 1187), personal name Zhao Gou, courtesy name Deji, was the tenth emperor of the Chinese Song dynasty and the first of the Southern Song dynasty, ruling between 1127 and 1162 and retaining power a ...

(1131 - 1162), an officer called Tao Wenwo (陶文斡) migrated here from

Suzhou Suzhou is a major prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. As part of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis, it is a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou rapidly grew in size by the ...

and built a manor house, so the name changed to Taozhuang.

Recent

Fenyu was merged with Taozhuang in 1999.

Administration

Taozhuang is divided into 1 community, 9 villages and 1 Farms. * Taozhuang (陶庄) * Taozhong (陶中) * Jinhu (金湖) * Hubin (湖滨) * Fenyu (汾玉) * Fenhu (汾湖) * Fennan (汾南) * Lisheng (利生) * Xiangsheng (翔胜)

Economy

Transport

* The county road Ping-Li (

Pinghu Pinghu is a county-level city in the east of Jiaxing's administrative area, in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, bordering Shanghai to the northeast. It sits next to the East China Sea and the north shore of Hangzhou Bay. Prior to the Ming ...

to Lili) Road is across the town from east to west. * The Chang-Jia High Way (

Changshu Changshu (; Suzhounese: /d͡ʐan¹³ ʐoʔ²³/) is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. It borders the prefecture-level city of Nantong to the northeast across the Yangt ...

Jiaxing Jiaxing (), alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China. Lying on the Grand Canal of China, Jiaxing borders Hangzhou to the southwest, Huzhou to the west, Shanghai to the northeast, and the p ...

) is being built. * The River Taipu(太浦河) is in the north, through Lake Fenhu, which can reach the Great Canal and

Huangpu River The Huangpu (), formerly romanized as Whangpoo, is a river flowing north through Shanghai. The Bund and Lujiazui are located along the Huangpu River. The Huangpu is the biggest river in central Shanghai, with the Suzhou Creek being its ...

. Township-level divisions of Zhejiang {{Zhejiang-geo-stub