Qilong Township
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Qilong 启隆乡 |
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| Coordinates: 31°46′00″N 121°27′00″E / 31.76667°N 121.45000°ECoordinates: 31°46′00″N 121°27′00″E / 31.76667°N 121.45000°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| Prefecture | Nantong |
| County | Qidong |
| Area | |
| • Total | 36.8 km2 (14.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,436 |
| • Density | 93/km2 (240/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard Time (UTC+8) |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Qǐlóng Xiāng |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Qǐdōng Xiàn Nóngyè Liángzhǒng Fányù Cháng |
Qilong is a township of Qidong in Jiangsu, China. 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. 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.
Yonglongsha, a shoal in the channel of the Yangtze north of Chongming Island, reappeared most recently in 1937. By 1968, workers from Jiangsu had stabilized the land enough that the conflicting claims of the counties of Haimen and Qidong were mediated by their prefecture of Nantong, which divided the island between them. Qidong's area was organized as a farmstead. Continuing reclamation projects and natural deposition of sediment joined it to Chongming Island in 1972. Another area of Qilong derives from its later absorption of Xinglongsha (t , s , p Xīnglóngshā), another shoal.
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