# Guangde

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**Guangde** is a [county-level city](/source/County-level_city) in the southeast of [Anhui Province](/source/Anhui), People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of [Jiangsu](/source/Jiangsu) to the north and [Zhejiang](/source/Zhejiang) to the east and south. It is the easternmost [county-level division](/source/County-level_division) of Anhui and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city [Xuancheng](/source/Xuancheng) within Anhui Province. The city has a population of 510,000[when?] and an area of 2,165 km2 (836 sq mi). The seat of government is at Taozhou Town.

Guangde has jurisdiction over six towns and ten townships.

## Administrative divisions

**Guangde City** is divided to 5 [towns](/source/Town_(China)) and 4 [townships](/source/Township_(China)).[1]

**Towns**

- Taozhou (桃州镇)
- Xinhang (新杭镇)
- Qiucun (邱村镇)
- Baidian (柏垫镇)
- [Shijie](/source/Shijie,_Anhui) (誓节镇)

**Townships**

- Lucun Township (卢村乡)
- Sihe Township (四合乡)
- Yangtan Township (杨滩乡)
- Dongting Township (东亭乡)

## Industry

Guangde provides the terrain for the 5.67-square-kilometer [automobile proving ground](/source/General_Motors_Proving_Grounds#Guangde_County.2C_Anhui.2C_China) ([31.044266°N 119.425751°E](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=31.044266_119.425751)) with 60 km (37 mi) of test roads, opened on September 22, 2012, and managed by [Shanghai GM](/source/Shanghai_GM) and the [Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center](/source/Pan_Asia_Technical_Automotive_Center) (PATAC), both [joint ventures](/source/Joint_venture) of [SAIC Motor](/source/SAIC_Motor) with [GM China](/source/General_Motors#Asia).[2][3]

## Transport

- [China National Highway 318](/source/China_National_Highway_318); [Guangde Nan Highspeed Train station](/source/Guangde_Nan_Highspeed_Train_station).

## Chinese manned space program

On July 19, 1964, China launched and recovered its first successful experimental biological rocket carrying eight white mice from the [Chinese Academy of Sciences](/source/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences) [Base 603](/source/Base_603) launch site in [Shijie Town](/source/Shijie,_Anhui) (誓节镇) within the city.[4]

## Culture

Prior to the late 19th century, most residents spoke a [Jianghuai Mandarin](/source/Jianghuai_Mandarin) dialect. Thereafter many people in the southern and eastern parts of the city began to speak [Old Guangde dialect](/source/Old_Guangde_dialect), a [Taihu](/source/Taihu_Wu) [Wu Chinese](/source/Wu_Chinese) dialect closely related to that of [Suzhou dialect](/source/Suzhou_dialect) and [Shanghainese](/source/Shanghainese). Most residents also speak the [Southwestern Mandarin](/source/Southwestern_Mandarin) [Guangde dialect](/source/Guangde_dialect).

## See also

- [Chinese space program](/source/Chinese_space_program)

## References

1. ["南京市-行政区划网"](http://www.xzqh.org/html/list/107.html) (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-24.

1. ["SGM/PATAC Guangde Proving Ground Opened"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030723/http://www.patac.com.cn/en/2_1.asp?id=40) (Press release). *patac.com.cn*. Archived from [the original](http://www.patac.com.cn/en/2_1.asp?id=40) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

1. ["About GM China"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215358/http://www.gmchina.com/gm/front/about/china). *gmchina.com*. 2013. Archived from [the original](http://www.gmchina.com/gm/front/about/china) on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

1. ["zh:军事史话 <第七部> 导弹部队史话"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081007231509/http://www.lantianyu.net/pdf18/ts076061_1.htm) [Military History Part 7 - History of the Rocket Division] (in Chinese). March 1, 2008. Archived from [the original](http://www.lantianyu.net/pdf18/ts076061_1.htm) on October 7, 2008. Retrieved March 10, 2011.

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