Changde

Changde
/chahng"due"/, n. Pinyin.
a city in N Hunan province, in E China. 225,000.
Also, Changteh.

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China

      city in northern Hunan sheng (province), China. Situated on the north bank of the Yuan River above its junction with the Dongting Lake system, Changde is a natural centre of the northwest Hunan plain. In historical times it was also a centre from which governments controlled the mountain tribes of western Hunan. A county named Linyuan was established there in the 2nd century BCE. In 589 its name was changed to Wuling, and under the Tang dynasty (618–907) it became the seat of Lang prefecture. Under the Song dynasty (960–1279) the name of the prefecture was changed to Tingzhou, and in 1164–74 it became a superior prefecture called Changde. This status was retained until 1912, when the superior prefecture was abolished and the city became a county seat.

      In the late 19th century Changde became a prosperous commercial centre and the chief agricultural central market of the Yuan River basin. Many Chinese firms, and—after 1905, when it was opened to foreign trade—foreign firms as well, maintained branches there to buy rice, cotton, tung oil, and timber so that Changde's economic influence reached out into northern Guizhou, southwestern Hubei (Hupeh), and parts of southeastern Sichuan provinces. The merchants of the Dahe quarter of the city controlled much of the northwestern Hunan economy, and early in the 20th century Changde was the second city of Hunan, after Changsa (Changsha), the provincial capital. Although the commercial dominance of Changde firms disappeared with the advent of communist rule in 1949, the city remained an important centre of trade, with the majority of its population engaged either in commerce or in transportation. Grain, oil, cotton, and other commodities are loaded into medium-sized ships and taken to Yueyang, Changsa, or Hankou ( Wuhan, Hubei province) for onward shipment. Timber is also rafted there and floated across Dongting Lake to Yueyang, and thus to the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang). Changde now has rail lines, and an express highway links it to Changsha. Light industry, mostly based on such local products as wood, leather, and bristles, has developed in the city since 1949. Pop. (2002 est.) 437,039; (2007 est.) urban agglom., 1,469,000.

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