Is it cold in Yangzhou in winter?
Cold! Although it is only a few degrees below zero, which is better than the minus ten or even tens of degrees in the north, but compared with the north, every household in Yangzhou has heating in winter, but not in Yangzhou. Air conditioning, electricity bills are too much. Moreover, compared with the north, the air humidity in Yangzhou is higher than that in the north. It is damp and cold. This kind of cold is very uncomfortable. For example, if you go to Beijing to play, you must wear more clothes when you return to Yangzhou from Beijing. The weather forecast may be that the temperature in Beijing is lower than that in Yangzhou, but it will be even colder in Yangzhou! The same is true in summer. In the north, you may use an umbrella to cool down, like here in Yangzhou Holding an umbrella is of no use.
Yangzhou City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is located in the central part of Jiangsu Province, on the north bank of the Yangtze River and at the southern end of the Jianghuai Plain. It is between 32°15' to 33°25' north latitude and 119°01' to 119°54' east longitude. It is adjacent to Yancheng City and Taizhou City in the east; it is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the south and faces Zhenjiang City across the river; it is connected to Nanjing City in the southwest; it borders Chuzhou City in the west; it borders Huai'an City in the northwest; it has a subtropical monsoon climate. The city has a total area of 6591.21 square kilometers, and currently governs 3 districts, 1 county, and 2 county-level cities, with a total registered population of 4.6167 million (at the end of 2016) [1].
During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei and Wu each established Yangzhou. Wei's governance was in Shouchun, and Wu's governance was in Jianye. After the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu, the administrative office was still in Jianye. In the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty, Wuzhou was changed to Yangzhou, but the general administration office was still located in Danyang. In 1949, Yangzhou City was established and affiliated to the Second Administrative District of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Region.
Yangzhou is an important part of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Jiangsu, a member city of the Nanjing Metropolitan Area and a city in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration; it is the water source of the east route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project; it is a United Nations Habitat Award-winning city and a famous hot spring city in China; it is One of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities. Famous scenic spots include: Slender West Lake, Mengcheng Station, Zaolin Bay, Daming Temple, etc.
In December 2017, Yangzhou was rated as one of the top 200 charming cities with Chinese characteristics in 2017.