FIND CHINA introduces Danyang
Danyang is located in the south part of Jiangsu Province and is one of the advanced counties (cities) among that of South Jiangsu Province. It has a total area of 1,059 sq. km and has a population of 890,000.
Danyang is located at the meeting points between Shanghai City Circle and Nanjing Economic Circle, between the Yangtze River and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway and Express Railway go through Danyang. It is 200 km away from Shanghai and 68 km from Nanjing. There are Nanjing Lukou International Airport, Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Pudong international Airport nearby and Changzhou Civil Airport within its area. Dagang, the third largest port along the Yangtze River, is 18 km away from Danyang and has established shipment relationship with more than 160 ports of 50 countries and regions. Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Danyang part can be passed by ship teams of 500t and is awarded as the “Golden passageway” to connect the south with the north. So it has favourable advantages in the aspect of railway, highway, waterway and air transportation.
Danyang has a marine monsoon subtropical climate, and the weather is generally warm and humid. Winter temperatures can drop as low as -10°C (a record), however, and even in springtime, large temperature fluctuations can occur.
Danyang cuisine has the characteristics of strictly selected ingredients, exquisite workmanship, elegant shape, and rich culture trait. The typical raw materials are fresh and live aquatic products. It highlights the freshness of ingredients. Other cooking ingredients are often carefully selected tealeaves, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, pears, and dates. Its carving techniques are delicate, of which the melon carving technique is especially well known. Due to using the methods of stewing, braising, quick-frying, warming-up, stir-frying, wine sauce pickling and adding some sugar as condiments, Danyang dishes taste fresh, light and mellow.
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