Siming District is on southeastern Xiamen Island and the capital district

District

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 of Xiamen

Xiamen

Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...

 Municipality, Fujian

Fujian

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 province, the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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History

Siming literally means Missing Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

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 (思念明朝). In 1650, Zheng Chenggong changed the name of Xiamen

Xiamen

Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...

 to Siming Zhou (思明州). In the beginning age of the Republic of China

Republic of China

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, a Siming County was established.

The place was made Zhongxin District (中心区) in October 1945. It was renamed to Siming in 1950. In April 1953, the district's government was upgraded from District Bureau (区公所) to People's Government (人民政府). From August 1966 to October 1979, Siming was named Xiangyang (向陽).

Administration

Before the merge, Siming originally has five street offices (街道办事处):

• Binghai (滨海)
• Siming (思明)
• Wen'an (文安)
• Xiagang (厦港)
• Zhonghua (中华)

The above five are divided into 58 residential committees (居委会), and two villages: Zengcuoan (曾厝埯) and Huangcuo (黄厝). In May 2003, Siming's two neighbouring districts -- Gulangyu Island

Gulangyu Island

Gulangyu "Drum Wave Islet" is a car free island off the coast of Xiamen, Fujian province in southern China, about in area. It is home to about 20,000 people and is a very popular tourist destination....

 and the larger Kaiyuan

Kaiyuan District

Kaiyuan Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of and has a registered population of 63362....

 -- were merged into Siming.

Xiagang Street was originally a district in 1950.

Today, Siming has ten street offices (街道办事处):

• Binghai (滨海)
• Zhonghua (中华)
• Xiagang (厦港)
• Lianqian (莲前)
• Jialian (嘉莲)
• Yundang (筼筜)
• Wucun (梧村)
• Kaiyuan (开元)
• Lujiang (鹭江)
• Gulangyu
  Gulangyu
  Gulangyu may refer to:* Gulangyu Island, former Foreign Concession in Xiamen harbour* Gulangyu Subdistrict, formerly district, in Xiamen Municipality, China...
  
  (鼓浪屿)

These street offices are divided into 95 residential committees (社区居委会)

External links

• Guide to Xiamen