Nantong, a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, is located in the southeast of Jiangsu, in the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta 1, which is called "Tong" for short. Also known as Jinghai, Chongzhou, Chongchuan, Zilang and North Shanghai, Tongzhou was called in ancient times. One of the first batch of coastal cities in China, Kloc-0/4, borders the Yellow Sea in the east, the Yangtze River in the south, Suzhou in Shanghai, and Taizhou and Yancheng in the west and north. Because it is the intersection of rivers and seas, the throat of the north and the south, it is called "Northern Guangzhou". Nantong combines the advantages of "golden coast" and "golden waterway" and has a coastline of 226 kilometers along the Yangtze River. Nantong has a history of more than 5000 years, because of the rising sand and alluvial land. Nantong has a history of 1000 years since the third year of Xiande in the following week (956). After the Revolution of 1911, Tongzhou was changed to Nantong County. 1983, Nantong area was abolished and Nantong city was established. Nantong has jurisdiction over 3 districts, 2 counties and 3 county-level cities, covering an area of 8,544 square kilometers. The first batch of coastal open cities. In the history of modern culture, science and education in China, Nantong established the first normal school, the first folk museum, the first textile school, the first embroidery school, the first drama school, the first deaf-mute school run by China people and the first weather station, which is called "the first city in modern China". 4 selected as "20 12 Top 200 Charming Cities in China" 5. As the oldest city in China, Nantong has an average life expectancy of 80.7 1 year, and there are as many centenarians as 103 1 person. 20 14 In May, Nantong was awarded the world's first "Longevity Capital" by the International Society of Natural Medicine and the World Longevity Town Certification Committee. From August 2065438 to August 2004, Nantong's urban rapid rail transit construction plan was approved by the state, making it the sixth city in Jiangsu Province and the 37th city in China to be approved to build rail transit.