Datong Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province, China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 census, it had a population o ...

(大同市) is a prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China. Datong (pinyin) or Tatung (Wade–Giles) may also refer to: *

Great Unity The Great Unity () is a Chinese vision of the world explicitly based on the past period of "three dynasties" as understood by the Confucian tradition. In this ideal historical model, everyone and everything was at peace and this model must be ...

, a classical Chinese concept for an utopian view of the world

Places

Counties

Datong County, Shanxi Yunzhou District () is a district of the city of Datong, Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, wh ...

(大同县), China *

Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong County, or Serkhog County (; ; or more frequently ; Monguor: ; Xiao'erjing: ) is an autonomous county of Hui and Tu peoples in Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefect ...

(大通回族土族自治县), Qinghai, China

Districts

* Datong District, Daqing (大同区), Heilongjiang, China * Datong District, Huainan (大通区), Anhui, China *

Datong District, Taipei Datong District or Tatung is a district of Taipei City, Taiwan. It is located between the Taipei Metro Red Line and eastern shore of the Tamsui River, and between Civic Boulevard and the Sun Yat-sen Freeway. The southern part of this distric ...

(大同區), Taiwan

Towns

Datong, Yilan Datong Township () is a mountain indigenous township in the southwestern part of Yilan County, Taiwan. It is the second largest township in Yilan County after Nan'ao Township. Geography It is predominantly populated by Taiwanese aborigines o ...

(大同鄉), Taiwan

Institutions and universities

Shanxi Datong University Shanxi Datong University (SDU; ) is a university in Datong, Shanxi, 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 c ...

, in Datong, Shanxi, China *

Tatung University Tatung University (TTU/) is a private university in Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan. It was first founded in 1956 as Tatung Institute of Technology but renamed in 1999 as Tatung University. Currently, Tatung University has four colleges: College ...

, Taipei, Taiwan *

Tatung Institute of Commerce and Technology Tatung Institute of Technology (TTC; ) was an educational institution based in East District, Chiayi City, Taiwan. It had five new departments: Finance, Food and Beverage Management, Early Childhood Care and Education, Multimedia Design, a ...

, in Chiayi County, Taiwan *

Utopia University Utopia University, known in Chinese as Datong or Tatung University, was a private university in Shanghai. It was established in March 1912 by a group of former Tsinghua faculty members led by Hu Dunfu, and became one of the most reputable priv ...

, or Datong University, in Shanghai, China

Companies and sport clubs

Datong Coal Mining Group The Datong Coal Mining Group () is a third-largest state-owned coal mining enterprise in China, after Shenhua Group and China Coal Group. It is located at Datong City, the second largest city in Shanxi Province which has the greatest coal deposi ...

, state-owned coal mining enterprise of China **

Datong Coal Industry Datong Coal Industry Co,. Ltd., established in 2001 and parented by Datong Coal Mining Group. It is engaged in excavating, processing and sales of coal. Its headquarters is in Datong City, the second largest city in Shanxi Province which has ...

, a subsidiary and listed company of Datong Coal Mining Group *

CRRC Datong CRRC Datong Co. Ltd. () is a Chinese railway locomotive manufacturing plant based in Datong, Shanxi, China, founded in 1953. The factory was a major producer of steam locomotives for the Chinese market up to 1988 when production switched to die ...

, since 2003 'CNR Datong Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd' (DELC), in Datong, Shanxi, China *SAIC Datong, Chinese name of the automotive manufacturer

Maxus SAIC Maxus Automotive Co., Ltd. trading as Maxus (LDV in Australia and New Zealand) and sometimes known by the pinyin transcription of its Chinese name, Datong (大通) is a Chinese vehicle brand. Currently, it is a commercial and passenger ve ...

Tatung Company Tatung Company () is a multinational corporation established in 1918 and headquartered in Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan. Established in 1918 and headquartered in Taipei, Tatung Company holds 3 business groups, which includes 8 business units: Indus ...

, Taiwanese electronics company ** Tatung F.C., a Taiwanese football club owned by the company

Historical eras

*Datong (大通, 527–529),

Emperor Wu of Liang Emperor Wu of Liang () (464 – 12 June 549), personal name Xiao Yan (蕭衍), courtesy name Shuda (叔達), childhood name Lian'er (練兒), was the founding Emperor of China, emperor of the Chinese Liang dynasty, during the Northern and Souther ...

's 3rd reign period *Datong (大同, 535–546), Emperor Wu of Liang's 5th reign period *Datong (大統, 535–551), an era name used by

Emperor Wen of Western Wei Emperor Wen of Western Wei ((西)魏文帝) (507 – 28 March 551), personal name Yuan Baoju (元寶炬), was the first emperor of the Western Wei dynasty of China. In 534, Yuan Baoju, then the Prince of Nanyang, followed his cousin Emperor Xiao ...

*Datong (大同, 947), an era name used by

Emperor Taizong of Liao Emperor Taizong of Liao (25 November 902 – 18 May 947), personal name Yaogu, Sinicization, sinicised name Yelü Deguang, courtesy name Dejin, was the second Emperor of China, emperor of the Khitan people, Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China. Ba ...

*Datong (大同, 1224–1233), an era name used by

Puxian Wannu Púxiān Wànnú () was a Jurchen warlord who established the short-lived Eastern Xia dynasty in 13th-century China. Púxiān Wànnú is also mentioned under the name fūjīū tāīīshī () in Persian historical sources such as the ''Jami' al- ...

*Datong (大同, 1932–1934), an era name used by

Puyi Puyi (7 February 190617 October 1967) was the final emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh monarch of the Qing dynasty from 1908 to 1912. When the Guangxu Emperor died without an heir, Empress Dowager Cixi picked his nephew Puyi, aged tw ...

as Chief Executive of Manchukuo

Other uses

Datong (instrument) The ''datong'' ( 大筒) is a bowed string instrument in the ''huqin'' family, and is used as an accompanying instrument in the ''huaguxi'' opera tradition of Hunan, China. Referring to this role, the instrument is also referred to ''huagu datong ...

, a Chinese music instrument *'' The Chinese Mayor'', original title ''Datong'', documentary film {{disambiguation, geo