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Shenzhen (深圳)
Shenzhen (深圳), a sub-provincial city in southern Guangdong bordering Hong Kong, became one of China's first Special Economic Zones in 1980 and grew from about 20,000 residents into a megacity of nearly 20 million and a global technology hub.
Shihezi
Shihezi (石河子) is a county-level city in northern Xinjiang directly administered by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, run jointly with the 8th Division. Founded by Wang Zhen's troops in 1950 on Gobi desert, it is known as the first military-reclamation city, about 94% Han, with 44% green coverage.
Shijiazhuang (石家庄)
Shijiazhuang (石家庄) is the capital of Hebei Province, China, a railway-hub industrial city of 11.2 million. Key facts: 2025 GDP 865.17 billion yuan, provincial seat since 1968, metropolitan circle approved 2025.
Shijie
Shijie (石碣镇) is a town in northern Dongguan, Guangdong, on the Dongjiang River bordering Guangzhou's Zengcheng District. Known as the first China Famous Town of Electronic Information Industry, a major vegetable supplier to Hong Kong, and the hometown of Ming general Yuan Chonghuan.
Shizuishan
Shizuishan (石嘴山) is a prefecture-level city in northern Ningxia, China, founded in 1960 as the region's first state coal industrial base, known for anthracite, now transforming industrially, with Dawukou, Huinong districts and Pingluo County.
Shouguang
Shouguang (寿光市) is a county-level city of Weifang, Shandong, on Laizhou Bay. Known as China's 'home of vegetables' with 157,000 greenhouses and 4.5 million tonnes annual output, and 'sea salt capital' with 4.2 million tonnes salt capacity.
Shuangyashan
Shuangyashan (双鸭山) is a coal-mining prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang, China, on the Sanjiang Plain facing Russia across the Wusuli River; 4 districts, 4 counties, 11.7 billion tons of coal reserves, 2024 GDP 55.74 billion yuan.
Shuozhou
Shuozhou (朔州) is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi, China, bordering Datong and Inner Mongolia. A major coal and coal-power base holding one sixth of Shanxi's coal reserves, it is also home to the 1056 Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, China's oldest and tallest all-wood pagoda.
Siping
Siping (四平) is a prefecture-level railway hub city in central Jilin province, Northeast China; formerly the village Sipingjie, it grew after the 1902 railway and is known for the Four Battles of Siping (1946–1948).
Sishui
Sishui (泗水) is a county in Jining, Shandong, China, named for the Si River rising at its Quanlin springs; 1091.79 km2, 528,800 residents (2023), 2024 GDP 23.383 billion yuan.
Suihua
Suihua (绥化) is a prefecture-level city in central Heilongjiang, China, on the Songnen Plain's Hulan River basin; established 1885, prefecture-level city 1999; 3.394 million residents (2025), grain-producing economy, GDP 124.4 billion yuan (2024).
Suining
Suining (遂宁) is a prefecture-level city in central Sichuan on the Fu River, in the Chengdu–Chongqing economic circle; 5,325 km², 3.654 million people, known for the China Dead Sea, Guanyin culture, and lithium-battery industry.
Suizhou
Suizhou (随州) is a prefecture-level city in northern Hubei, China, birthplace of the legendary Yandi (Shennong) and home of the Zeng Hou Yi bronze chime-bells, also known as China's special vehicle capital.
Suqian
Suqian (宿迁) is a prefecture-level city in northern Jiangsu, China, established July 1996, the province's youngest. Two districts, three counties, 8,555 km²; renamed from Suyu in 762; hometown of Xiang Yu and Yanghe liquor.
Suzhou (苏州)
Suzhou (苏州), also known as Soochow, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, adjoining Shanghai and known for its classical gardens and canals.
Suzhou, Anhui
Suzhou, also written 宿州, is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Anhui Province, China, at the junction of Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan, distinguished from Jiangsu's larger Suzhou by its province name.
Taicang
Taicang (太仓市) is a county-level city of Suzhou, Jiangsu, on the Yangtze estuary 50 km from Shanghai. Known for Taicang Port (8.736 million TEU in 2025), over 530 German firms, and historic Liujiagang, Zheng He's departure point.
Taiyuan (太原)
Taiyuan (太原), also Jinyang or Longcheng, is the capital of Shanxi province, China, founded 497 BC and renamed after the Qin conquest of 228 BC; a Tier 2 heavy-industry city on the Fen River.
Taizhou, Jiangsu
Taizhou (泰州) is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu, China, on the Yangtze's north bank; named in 937 under Southern Tang, prefecture-level since 1996, with 4.77 million people, three districts and three county-level cities, distinct from Taizhou, Zhejiang.
Taizhou, Zhejiang
Taizhou (台州, Tāizhōu) is a prefecture-level city on central Zhejiang's coast, China; named for Tiantai Mountain in 621, a 1994 prefecture-level city with seat at Jiaojiang, 928 islands, and three city commercial banks.
Tanghe, Henan
Tanghe County (唐河县), a county of Nanyang, Henan, China; about 1.02 million residents (2024), GDP 49.393 billion yuan (2025); a major grain county with Feng Youlan among its natives.
Tangshan
Tangshan (唐山), a prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei, China, is the cradle of Chinese modern industry and site of the deadly 1976 magnitude 7.8 earthquake (242,419 deaths); a "trillion-yuan" steel and port city nicknamed the Phoenix City.
Tantou, Guangdong
Tantou (潭头/谭头) names several Guangdong settlements: a town of about 28,700 people in Gaozhou, Maoming, at 22.19°N 110.87°E, a village in Meizhou, and a larger Pearl River Delta place.
Tengchong
Tengchong (腾冲) is a city and volcanic field in western Yunnan, China, near Myanmar, with Holocene volcanoes (Dayingshan, Maanshan, Heikongshan), the Rehai geothermal field, and intraplate volcanism on the SE Tibetan Plateau margin.
Tianjin (天津)
Tianjin (天津) is a Chinese direct-administered municipality and northern port city on the Bohai Bay, founded as a garrison on December 23, 1404, opened by the 1858 Treaties of Tianjin, with a 2024 GDP of 1.80 trillion yuan and Tianjin Port handling 453 million tonnes.
Tianshui
Tianshui (天水市) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Gansu, China, at the midpoint of Lanzhou, Xi'an, Yinchuan, and Chengdu; a National Historical and Cultural City with the Dadiwan site, Fuxi Temple, and Maijishan grottoes, 2.9 million residents, and Gansu's second-largest economy.
Tieling
Tieling (铁岭) is a prefecture-level city in northern Liaoning, China, on the Songliao Plain. A coal-and-grain rust-belt city of 2.39 million (2020 census), 18 minutes by high-speed rail from Shenyang, known for skit comedy and population shrinkage.
Tongchuan, Shaanxi
Tongchuan (铜川) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi, China, with about 803,700 people. A coal and cement city once called "the city invisible on satellites," it was designated resource-depleted in 2009 and is transitioning its economy.
Tongchuanshi
Tongchuanshi (Tongchuan Shi, 铜川市) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi, China, north of Xi'an. A former coal and cement base producing 70% of Shaanxi's coal, it was named resource-exhausted in 2009 and now pivots to tourism around the Yaozhou kilns, Sun Simiao, and Zhaojin.
Tonghua
Tonghua (通化) is a prefecture-level city in southeast Jilin province, China, on the Yalu River border with North Korea. Known for ginseng, wine, pharmaceuticals, and revolutionary history; GDP 592.14 billion yuan in 2025.