Wanzhou

Wanzhou

▪ former city, Chongqing, China
Wade-Giles romanization  Wan-chou , formerly (until 1998)  Wanxian 

      former city, northeastern Chongqing (Sichuan) shi (municipality), central China. It has been a district of Chongqing since the municipality was established in 1997. The district is an important port along the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), being situated at the western end of the river's renowned Three Gorges region. Before Chongqing municipality was formally separated from Sichuan province, Wanxian constituted the eastern gateway to Sichuan, and it functioned as a collecting and distribution centre for goods between Sichuan and neighbouring Shaanxi (Shensi) and Hubei (Hupeh) provinces.

      A county was first established there in 216 CE and got its original name of Wanxian in 1373. Under the Sino-British trade agreement of 1902, the city was opened to foreign trade and became a commercial centre of medium importance, a centre of the wood-oil (tung-oil) trade, and a distribution hub for Western goods. It also had some minor industries, such as junk (boat) building, papermaking, and flour milling. During the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), a number of industrial plants evacuated from Wuhan (in Hubei) and Shanghai were rebuilt in Wanxian. But in 1945 most of these plants were dismantled and returned to the east, leaving only various textile companies (weaving cotton and hemp), flour mills, and tanneries. Diversified industries (especially those making electronics and chemical products) were later established in the city.

      Wanxian grew considerably after 1949. The river port was improved, and by the late 1990s its passenger and freight capacities were second only to those of Chongqing city in the upper Yangtze region. Highways and expressways have been built and now link the Wanzhou district to central Chongqing and to Chengdu in Sichuan. A bridge across the Yangtze River at Wanzhou (completed 1997) has enhanced the district's importance in local land communication. A branch rail line northwest to Dazhou in Sichuan (completed 2002) connects the district with the regional railway network. In addition, construction began in 2004 on another rail line east to Yichang in Hubei. The completion of the Three Gorges Dam near Yichang, and the subsequent filling of the reservoir behind the dam, has submerged some of the territory under the administration of Wanzhou district; a new town has been built to resettle more than 250,000 district residents. Pop. (2000) 574,033.

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