Huaihai Province was founded in 1996, which is the capital city and planning area.
Huaihai is located in the south of Shandong Province and the north of Jiangsu Province, at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, and is in the transitional zone between north and south. As the key to the north and the gateway to the south, the beijing-shanghai railway and Longhai railways meet here, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the north and south of Xuzhou. Its strategic position is very important and it has always been a battleground for military strategists. There have been more than 200 wars in Xuzhou in history, from the hegemony of Chu and Han, the struggle between the three countries, the confrontation between the northern and southern dynasties, to the Taierzhuang campaign against Japan in modern times, and the Huaihai campaign in which the countries decided to fight for power in World War I.
Geographically, Huaihai has its own system. Culturally, it belongs to a typical northern cultural area, and its eating habits are mainly pasta, and its language and psychological habits are all northern, which is quite different from Wunong Soft Language in Wuhua Tianbao and Southern Jiangsu and Southern Anhui, but similar to Henan and Shandong.
"Taking Xuzhou as the moon of the stars and changing the land according to time is the key. It is like building Xuzhou into a province. " 1904, Zhang Jian put forward a plan to build a province in Xuzhou according to the Proposal on Building a Province in Xuzhou. It is Zhang Jian's two wishes to set up a province in Xuzhou and extend the Longhai Railway to Nantong and Chongming, but they have not been realized.
The division of Jiangsu, Huaihe and Huaihe provinces in the late Qing Dynasty reflected the contradictions and conflicts of various related interest groups to some extent. The newly established officialdom in Qingjiang (Huai 'an), the capital of Jianghuai, is not in favor of opposing the division of provinces. "In the north of the Qing Dynasty, Xu and the sea were connected, while the south controlled Huai and Yang. The folk customs are rampant, thieves are rampant, and the salt owl must be a bandit ... After changing the province, it suddenly retracted the order, and there is no such regime. " Obviously, this is the voice of some vested interests and cannot change the final outcome.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was 193 1 year since the abortion of the provincial movement in Huai Su. Zhang Wohua, a native of Fengyang, Anhui Province, who was then the executive deputy minister of the Ministry of Interior of the Kuomintang, and others submitted a proposal to the Central Political Conference of the Kuomintang to reduce the number of provinces and regions, and advocated the establishment of a "Hui De Province" in Xuzhou.
1940 Hu Huanyong, the provincial design committee of the Republic of China, also advocated the establishment of "Xuhuai Province" with an area of 66,872 square kilometers and 35 cities and counties, equivalent to about 40 cities and counties.
References:
Huaihai province-Baidu encyclopedia