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9-544: Although administratively not a city, downtown Zichuan is known to locals as the "Zichuan City". The urban area has an estimated population of 20,000 while the total population of Zichuan District is over 670,000 in 2013. Southern Zichuan extends into the Shandong Hills, while the northern part of the district, located on plains, is more densely populated. Zichuan is the hometown of Chinese writer Pu Songling , who wrote his most famous work Liaozhai Zhiyi here. During

18-677: A private tutor, collecting stories that were later published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in 1740. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan ("Marriage Destinies to Awaken the World") to him. In The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang (2019), Jackie Chan portrays Pu Songling Dao Lang has released an album based on his folk stories, called "There are Few Folk Songs" ( 山歌寥哉 ). The tracklist includes " Luosha Haishi " (罗刹海市),

27-530: Is 1.88:63.63:34.49. Total GDP the year is 25.85 billion Yuan. The large concentration of architectural ceramics of Zichuan make 60% of the total output of Zibo's ceramics industry. They also count for 30% of the GDP in Zichuan. Zichuan also boasts for Zichuan Garments Town-one of China's biggest cloths markets. An annual Domestic trading expo of quite large scale is held within the market. The cost living of Zichuan and

36-418: The "city" is divided into these areas: Nanguan, Beiguan, Dongguan, Xiguan, Hongshan, Chengnan, Huangjiapu, etc. Well-known landmarks of Zichuan City include Middle Streets, Liuquan Square, Lake Liuxian, Zichuan Garments Town, Liaozhai Town and Beishan Park. Zichuan has a typical economic structure of heavily industrialized zones. In 2008, Proportion of the first industry, the second industry and third industry

45-714: The author of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio ( Liaozhai zhiyi ). Pu was born into a poor merchant family from Zichuan (淄川, in Zibo, Shandong ). At the age of 18, he received the Xiucai degree in the Imperial examination . It was not until he was 71 that he was awarded the Gongsheng ("tribute student") degree for his achievement in literature rather than for passing the Imperial exam. He spent most of his life working as

54-539: The discovery of its coal resource . The years when China was under colonial invasion a century ago the 1800s, it was the German who start dig coals first. Following the foundation of new China, or the People's Republic of China, in 1956, Zichuan was set up as a district and is one of the few two districts of Zibo within the next limited years. As 2012, this county is divided to 4 subdistricts, 15 towns and 2 townships. Under

63-631: The first years of West Han dynasty , Zichuan was set up with its Panyang as its first name as a county. Panyang means south of River Pan. Zichuan City was once a stone-walled city with four big gates in the Ming dynasty and extended to its present scale mainly in the recent decades. Zichuan is also a name connected to river. Zi is a might river miles away to the west, and Chuan is river in Chinese. After thousands of years slow development relying on agriculture, Zichuan had undergone an economic breakthrough since

72-403: The jurisdiction of Zichuan City, four street offices are set to take charge of the citizens' daily affairs such as education, sanitation and community services. Like many Chinese localities, there is hardly any strict division between different facilities or functional components. All neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, businesses, and shops are spread throughout the city without definition. Usually,

81-642: The whole Zibo area is among the lowest in East China-the most prosperous region in China. Housing costs are still on a reasonable level along of the development of the economy. Housing prices of it is the third or fourth-highest of the five districts in Zibo. Pu Songling Pu Songling ( Chinese : 蒲 松 齡 , 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty , best known as

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