Golden Triangle (China)
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The Triangle of the Yangtze, otherwise known as the Golden Triangle, is a region in central coastal China, located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, consisting of a geographical triangle roughly between the cities of Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, incorporating twenty relatively developed municipalities in three provinces. The term can be generally used to refer to the entire region extending as far north as Lianyungang and as far south as Taizhou, Zhejiang. The region includes some of the fastest-growing economies in China in recent years, and as of 2004 has occupied over 21% of China's total gross GDP[1].
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- Urban cores: Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou
- Jiangsu Province: Suzhou (including county-level urban centres of Changshu, Taicang, Kunshan, and Zhangjiagang), Wuxi (including county-level urban centers of Yixing and Jiangyin), Nantong (including County-level urban cores of Qidong and Tongzhou), Changzhou, Zhenjiang (including county-level urban centre of Danyang), Yangzhou, Taizhou
- Zhejiang Province: Hangzhou's county-level urban centres of Jiande, Fuyang and Lin'an; Ningbo (including county-level urban centre of Cixi), Shaoxing, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Jinhua (including urban centre of Yiwu)
- In addition, the Shanghai districts of Minhang, Jiading and Pudong, although nominally "districts", are all municipal-level in administration, and all have de facto separate urban planning systems.
