Chaohu
Chaohu is a county-level city of Anhui Province, China. Situated on the northeast and southeast shores of Lake Chao, from which the city was named, Chaohu is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hefei, the provincial capital, and is the latter's easternmost county-level division.
History
Formerly it was a prefecture-level city, which held administration over Wuwei, Lujiang, He and Hanshan counties until it dissolved on 2011 August 22. The Anhui provincial government announced in a controversial decision that the prefecture-level city Chaohu was to be split into three parts and absorbed into neighboring cities. Juchao District was renamed to Chaohu as a county-level city under Hefei's administration.Climate
Administrative divisions
Chaohu City is divided to 6 subdistricts, 11 towns and 1 township.;Subdistricts
- Woniushan Subdistrict
- Yafu Subdistrict
- Tianhe Subdistrict
- Bantang Subdistrict
- Fenghuangshan Subdistrict
- Zhongmiao Subdistrict
- Zhegao
- Tongyang
- Huanglu
- Huailin
- Zhonghan
- Sanbing
- Suwan
- Xiage
- Bazhen
- Yinping
- Langanji
- Miaogang Township
Landmarks
- Chaohu Stadium, a sports complex with a seagull-shaped building.
Notable people
- Zhou Yu, Three Kingdoms era military general of the Kingdom of Wu
- Ding Ruchang, Qing Dynasty naval commander and captain of battleship Dingyuan
- Feng Yuxiang, warlord in the Republican Era
- Xu Haifeng, first Chinese gold medalist for Men's 50 m Pistol in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles
- Zhang Zhizhong, general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China.