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Nanjing [b] is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China.The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of 6,600 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), and as of 2021 a population of 9,423,400. [6]
1953 - Nanjing University of Science and Technology founded. [2] 1957 - Population: 1,419,000. [10] 1958 - Taiping Kingdom History Museum active. 1968 Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge constructed. [11] Nanjing Railway Station opens. 1988 December: Nanjing anti-African protests. Nanjing High-tech Industrial Development Zone established. [12]
Nanjing 南京: 30 March 1940 – 10 August 1945: Wang Jingwei Government: Nanjing 南京: 5 May 1946 – 1 May 1991: From 23 April 1949 to 1 May 1991, Nanjing was the claimed capital of the Republic of China Guangzhou 廣州: 23 April 1949 – 14 October 1949: during the Chinese Civil War: Chongqing 重慶: 14 October 1949 – 30 November 1949
The City Wall of Nanjing was designed by the Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and established Nanjing as the capital in 1368. To consolidate his sovereignty and defend the city against coastal pirates, he adopted the suggestions of advisor Zhu Sheng to build a higher city wall , to expand strategic ...
The Nanjing Massacre [b] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [c]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Chart of Chinese progress from a US wartime pamphlet The Bund in Shanghai in the 1930s. The Nanjing decade (also Nanking decade, Chinese: 南京十年; pinyin: Nánjīng shí nián, or the Golden decade, Chinese: 黃金十年; pinyin: Huángjīn shí nián) is an informal name for the decade from 1927 (or 1928) to 1937 in the Republic of China.
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, part of the former Great Bao'en Temple, is a historical site located on the south bank of external Qinhuai River in Nanjing, China.It was a pagoda constructed in the 15th century during the Ming dynasty, but was mostly destroyed in the 19th century during the course of the Taiping Rebellion.
Liao Nanjing's northern wall was extended to the east and west with Tongtianmen renamed Tongxuanmen and Gongchenmen renamed Chongzhimen. Danfengmen, which was a gate in the southern wall of Liao Nanjing and its imperial city, became the southern gate of Zhongdu's imperial city, and renamed Xuanyangmen.