Zhangjiagang

Zhangjiagang, formerly Shazhou County, is a county-level city under the administration of Suzhou in Jiangsu province, China, and one of the ports along the Yangtze River. It borders Taizhou and Nantong across the Yangtze and the city of Wuxi to the west. The 2010 census counted 1,246,762 inhabitants, and the city forms part of the Jiangyin-Zhangjiagang-Jingjiang built-up area of 3,526,260 people. The name means harbour of the Zhang clan, taken from a harbour named after a nearby settlement where a lineage of the Zhang surname lived. Zhangjiagang was named a National Civilized City in China in 2020 and ranked third among the top 100 county-level cities in 2019 and 2020.