Yancheng is an ancient city. As early as the 4th year of West Han Dynasty (119 BC), the emperor set Yandu County here. At that time, there were salt making sites and salt rivers everywhere. The word "du" means river for salt transportation in Chinese. In the year 411 AD, the emperor An of East Jin Dynasty changed its name to Yancheng, because there were salt making sites all around the city. Yancheng city is a green plain. The altitude of most areas is less than 5 meters. The banks of ancient Yellow River are the highest places with an altitude of 4-6 meters. There are beautiful rivers and lakes in Yancheng. In addition to making our hometown more attractive, they also bring us the conveniences of navigation and irrigation. The rivers of Yancheng belong to Huai, Yi, Shu and Si water systems respectively. Yancheng is not only with a long history but also an old revolutionary base.
Yancheng is an important base of automobile, textile, machinery and clean energy of Jiangsu Province. It is a central city of Jiangsu seaside, a newly growing industrial & commercial city in Yangtze River Delta, a beautiful wet land tourist city. Yancheng is striving to open wider to the outside world, to become the“concentrated Korean Investment Area” in Jiangsu, to connect with Shanghai in all different aspects, to raise developing level of the Developing Area, and to expedite the construction of friendly, resource saving society. It is also striving to maintain the social equality, to build a harmoniously developing new Yancheng.