Taicang has jurisdiction over six towns. Two districts.
1, 6 towns: Chengxiang Town, Liuhe, Fuqiao, shaxi town, Huangjing and Shuangfeng.
2.2 Districts: Port Development Zone and Economic Development Zone.
Taicang City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province and the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary. It borders the Yangtze River in the east, Chongming District, Baoshan District and Jiading District of Shanghai across the river in the south, Kunshan City in the west and Changshu City in the north.
Taicang has a history of more than 4500 years. As early as the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Taicang was an important seaport and commercial port, known as the "Six-country Wharf" in history, and Zheng He, a famous navigator in the Ming Dynasty, made seven voyages to the West. In the tenth year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (1497), Taicang County was built. The first year of the Republic of China (19 12) was named Taicang county. 1March, 993, Taicang City was built from the county. ?
Taicang is located on the east bank of Loujiang River, which was called Loudong in ancient times. Since ancient times, people have gathered together and taught for a long time, forming a unique Loudong culture. It is the birthplace of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River, the birthplace of Loudong culture, and the birthplace of the myth and legend Cowherd and Weaver Girl. ?
Since ancient times, there have been many masters of culture and art in Taicang, including Wang Shizhen, a writer of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhang Pu, a writer with Fu Shexiu, Ming Sijia, Wang Shimin, Wang Jian and Wang Zhiyi, a famous educator and founder of Jiaotong University, a contemporary painter, and Wu Xiaobang, the founder of China New Dance Art.
In the field of science, there are 1 1 academicians of the two academies, such as Wu Jianxiong, Gu Maoxiang, Lu, Gong Zhiben, Tang, Zou Shichang, Huang Shengnian, Wu Jianping, Yang Shengli and so on.