Xuzhou has a long history. Its ancestors lived and worked here more than 6000 years ago. At the end of primitive society, Yao called Peng Zu a big country, and Xuzhou was called Pengcheng. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Pengcheng belonged to Song, and then to Chu. After the reunification of Qin Dynasty, Pengcheng County was established. During the Chu-Han period, the overlord of the western Chu Dynasty was Pengcheng. Pengcheng County was established in the Western Han Dynasty, and Pengcheng Prefecture and Du Pengcheng were established in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao moved the secretariat of Xuzhou to Pengcheng, which was called Xuzhou from the beginning. Each generation of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties set up Pengcheng State or Xuzhou, mostly in Pengcheng. Xuzhou was established in the Sui Dynasty, and then Pengcheng was ruled by Pengcheng County. In the early Tang Dynasty, the names of Xuzhou and Pengcheng County were exchanged many times, and Xuzhou was the resident of our province in the middle and late period.

In the Five Dynasties, there were Xuzhou in each dynasty, which ruled Pengcheng and led 7 counties. Xuzhou was established in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and its subordination and jurisdiction changed frequently. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou was once the capital of Zhili, and later it belonged to Nanjing. In the early Qing Dynasty, Xuzhou was successively Zhili Prefecture, belonging to jiangnan province and Jiangsu Province. At the end of Yongzheng, it was promoted to Xuzhou Prefecture, which governed 1 state 7 counties. In the early Republic of China, the government was abolished, and Xuzhou was subordinate to Tongshan County and Guo. Later, Xu Hai Road was set up to control Tongshan.

During the Japanese-Puppet War, Xuzhou was located in Tongshan County and was once the capital of Puppet Huaihai Province. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government still established Xuzhou, which was subordinate to Jiangsu Province. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), Xuzhou was retained, which was originally under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, and then transferred back to Jiangsu Province. At the same time, Xuzhou area is established, located in Xuzhou City, which governs 1 1 counties and cities.

Since then, Xuzhou City and Xuzhou Special Zone have coexisted, and the jurisdiction has changed in different periods. 1983, Jiangsu province implemented the system of city governing counties, withdrew from Xuzhou area, and placed six counties under its jurisdiction under Xuzhou city. Xuzhou now governs 5 districts and 6 counties.

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Xuzhou has a superior geographical position, which is located at the intersection of the eastern coastal open zone and the Longlan zone, and it is also the junction of the Yangtze River Delta and the Bohai Bay in China's coastal, riverside and coastal open development strategy.

It has the strategic location characteristics of moving eastward and westward, north-south docking, two-way opening and gradient advancement. 1986, Huaihai Economic Zone was established in 18 cities in the border areas of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces.

Xuzhou objectively forms the central city of this region, with Nanjing in the north, Jinan in the south, Lianyungang in the west and Zhengzhou in the east, with a radiation area of nearly 200,000 square kilometers and a population of 654.38+009 billion.

The Outline of National Land Planning recently listed Xuzhou as a megacity, and the Ministry of Construction listed Xuzhou as the first central city at the eastern end of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge in the Outline of Urban System Planning of Longhai Lanxin Line. ?

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