Taicang

Taicang is a district level city under the ward of Suzhou, Jiangsu region. The city situated in the south of the Yangtze River estuary inverse Nantong, being flanked by Shanghai appropriate toward the south, while the waterway additionally depicts a lot of its northeastern limit along Chongming Island. Taicang as a place name as far as anyone knows to be made reference to in a remembrance to the royal position of hydrologist Jia Dan amid the Song administration, "Where misleads the east of Kunshan these days", he expressed, "is called Taicang, otherwise called Gangshen".

Taicang is a characteristic port. Under the Yuan, the city achieved its crest somewhere in the range of 1271 and 1368. Under the Ming, Taicang's Liuhe Harbor was the flight point for Zheng He's fortune armadas. It was additionally amid this period that the reefs in the Yangtze estuary which later progressed toward becoming Chongming Island were put under the supervision of Taicang Prefecture. It was the setting for the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup.