Zhanggong
Encyclopedia
Zhanggong District is the administrative center of Ganzhou City
, Jiangxi
Province, People's Republic of China
. The oldest part of Ganzhou's ancient sewage
system named Fushou Gou (福寿沟, literally "Happiness and Longevity Ditch"), which was built during the eleventh century AD and still in use today, is located in Zhanggong District.
As of 2003, the district covers an area of 479 square kilometers, and has a population
of 546,000.
Ganzhou
Ganzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong .-History:...
, Jiangxi
Jiangxi
' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...
Province, People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
. The oldest part of Ganzhou's ancient sewage
Sewage
Sewage is water-carried waste, in solution or suspension, that is intended to be removed from a community. Also known as wastewater, it is more than 99% water and is characterized by volume or rate of flow, physical condition, chemical constituents and the bacteriological organisms that it contains...
system named Fushou Gou (福寿沟, literally "Happiness and Longevity Ditch"), which was built during the eleventh century AD and still in use today, is located in Zhanggong District.
As of 2003, the district covers an area of 479 square kilometers, and has a population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
of 546,000.