Overview
Chinese Name: 台州
English Name: Taizhou；Taichow
Other Name: Haizhou 海州
Abbreviation: 台 Tai
Zip Code: 31 80 00
Population: 6.661 million
Brief Introduction
Taizhou 台州 is a prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province, one of the 27 cities in the central area of the Yangtze River Delta, and a regional central city and modern port city in the Zhejiang coastal area approved by The State Council.
Taizhou is located in east China and on the central coast of Zhejiang Province. It faces the East China Sea in the east, Shaoxing and Ningbo in the north, Wenzhou in the south, and Jinhua and Lishui in the west. The terrain slopes from west to east with continuous mountains in the northwest. Summer by tropical Marine air mass control, hot and rainy, subtropical climate characteristics. In winter, it is controlled by the polar continental air mass, and the temperature is cool. It has the characteristics of a subtropical climate.
As of 2018, The city has jurisdiction over 3 districts, 3 counties, and 3 county-level cities, with a total land area of 9,411 square kilometers. By the end of 2021, the permanent resident population of Taizhou is 6.661,000, and the total GDP of Taizhou is 578.619 billion yuan.
Famous Attractions in Taizhou
Taizhou has 2 5A-level tourist areas, 13 4A-level tourist areas, 44 3A-level tourist areas and 13 2A-level tourist areas.
Some special scenic spots in Taizhou
- Xianju Scenic Spot 仙居风景名胜区
- Tiantai Mountain Scenic Spot 天台山风景名胜区
- South Songyan Scenic Spot 南嵩岩风景名胜区
- Changyu Cave Day scenic spot 长屿硐天景区
- Shitang town 石塘古镇
- Dalu Island, Yuhuan 玉环大鹿岛
- Taizhou Sea World 台州海洋世界
- Wenling Square Mountain Scenic area 温岭方山景区
- Xuanmenwan Agricultural Sightseeing Park scenic spot 漩门湾农业观光园景区
- Sanmen Snake Pan Island 三门蛇蟠岛
Famous Universities in Taizhou
Taizhou has 1166 kindergartens, 360 primary schools, 209 junior high schools, 72 senior high schools, and 22 secondary vocational schools.
List of universities and colleges in Taizhou
- Taizhou University 台州学院
- Taizhou Polytechnic 台州职业技术学院
- Taizhou Science and Technology Vocational College 台州科技职业学院
- Zhejiang Automobile Vocational and Technical College 浙江汽车职业技术学院
- Beihang Taizhou Flight Academy 北航台州飞行学院
- Taizhou Applied University of Sino-German Zhejiang University 中德浙工大台州应用大学
- School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Southern University of Science and Technology 南方科技大学航空航天学院
- Taizhou Branch of Engineering College, Zhejiang University 浙江大学工程师学院台州分院
- Taizhou Institute of Technology 台州理工学院
Diet of Taizhou
Taizhou cuisine 台州菜 is rich in connotation and folk customs, and has gradually formed its unique personality and flavor in the long historical years. Taizhou has always been known as “ten miles of different wind, a hundred miles of different flavor”, thus forming the characteristics of “one soil, one vegetable”. Taizhou cuisine consists of three types of dishes: “seafood”, “coastal plain flavor dishes” and “mountain flavor dishes”, and “seafood dishes”海鲜菜 occupy an important position in Taizhou cuisine.
Some specialty snacks in Taizhou
- Wheat shrimp 麦虾
- Ginger soup noodles 姜汤面
- Cake cone 食饼筒
- Xianju yangmei 仙居杨梅
- Three yellow chickens in Xianju 仙居三黄鸡
- Huangyan orange 黄岩蜜桔
- Yuhuan pomelo 玉环文旦
- Three green crab 三门青蟹
- Tiantai radix linderae 天台乌药
- Wenling grass chicken 温岭草鸡
Taizhou Transportation
Aviation: Taizhou Luqiao Airport台州路桥机场, formerly known as Huangyan Luqiao Airport黄岩路桥机场, is located at the intersection of Airport Road and Dongyingbin Avenue, Luqiao District, Taizhou city, Zhejiang Province. It used to be a very important military airport in East China and has become a joint military and civilian airport in Taizhou city.
Port： Taizhou is a big city of Marine resources, rich in port resources, among which the “three-bay and three ports”三湾三港 are the most prominent, that is, the Haimen port area in Taizhou Bay, Damayu port area in Yueqing Bay, and Jiantiao port area in Sanmen Bay.