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Kuaiji

Shaoxing
绍兴市
Prefecture-level city
Shaoxing Cityscape.jpg
Location of Shaoxing City jurisdiction in Zhejiang
Location of Shaoxing City jurisdiction in Zhejiang
Country China
Province Zhejiang
County-level divisions 6
Government
 • Mayor Yu Zhihong (俞志宏)
Area
 • Total 8,279.1 km2 (3,196.6 sq mi)
Population (2010 census)
 • Total 4,912,239
 • Density 590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)
Area code(s) 0575
GDP 2015 ¥446.6 billion
GDP per capita 2015 ¥100,811
License Plate Prefix 浙D
Website www.sx.gov.cn
Shaoxing
Shaoxing (Chinese characters).svg
"Shaoxing" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese 绍兴
Traditional Chinese 紹興
Postal Shaohing
Literal meaning (An era of the Song dynasty)
Kuaiji
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Postal Kwaiki
Shanyin
Traditional Chinese 山陰
Postal Shanyin

Shaoxing ([ʂâuɕíŋ]; Chinese: 绍兴) is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in eastern Zhejiang province, China. It was formerly known as Kuaiji and Shanyin and abbreviated in Chinese as (Yuè) from the area's former inhabitants. Located on the south bank of the Qiantang River estuary, it borders Ningbo to the east, Taizhou to the southeast, Jinhua to the southwest, and Hangzhou to the west. As of 2010, its population was 4,912,339 inhabitants. Among which, 1,914,683 (Keqiao and Yuecheng districts) lived in the built-up metropolitan area of Hangzhou-Shaoxing, with a total of 8,156,154 inhabitants.

Notable residents of Shaoxing include Wang Xizhi, Zhou Enlai, Lu Xun, and Cai Yuanpei. It is also noted for Shaoxing wine, meigan cai, and stinky tofu, and was recently featured on A Bite of China. Its local variety of Chinese opera sung in the local dialect and known as Yue or Shaoxing opera is second in popularity only to Peking opera. In 2010, Shaoxing celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the city.


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