Qilong Township

Qilong
启隆乡
Qilong is located in Jiangsu
Qilong
Qilong
Location in Jiangsu
Qilong is located in Shanghai
Qilong
Qilong
Qilong (Shanghai)
Coordinates (Qilong government): 31°46′27″N 121°27′23″E / 31.7741°N 121.4563°E / 31.7741; 121.4563
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceJiangsu
Prefecture-level cityNantong
County-level cityQidong
Area
 • Total36.8 km2 (14.2 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total3,436
 • Density93/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard Time)
Qilong Township
Traditional Chinese啟隆
Simplified Chinese启隆
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQǐlóng Xiāng
Qidong Stock Farm
Traditional Chinese啟東農業良種繁育
Simplified Chinese启东农业良种繁育
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQǐdōng Xiàn Nóngyè Liángzhǒng Fányù Cháng

Qilong is a township of Qidong in eastern Jiangsu province. The land it occupies was formerly Yonglongsha, a separate island in the Yangtze River delta, but reclamation projects and natural deposition of sediment have joined it to Chongming Island, where it now forms a pene-enclave within Shanghai's Chongming County.[1] Its population was 3436 at the time of the 2010 Chinese census. Qilong's name—literally "opening prosperity"—is a compound of contracted forms of its county and its former island.

  1. ^ Gao Yuan (8 December 2004). "Rénmín Rìbào, The People's Daily". People's Daily. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.