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 Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jian ...

, China. 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 1107 – 9 November 1187), personal name Zhao Gou, courtesy name Deji, was the tenth emperor of the Song dynasty and the first of the Southern Song period, ruling between 1127 and 1162 and retaining power as re ...

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

Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trad ...

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 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 ...

) 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 ma ...

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