Suqian

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Suqian was said to be the site of a military grain store built when the Emperor Yuan of Jin reigned. Thus, the former Xiaxiang county where the store located was renamed Suyu ({{lang|zh-hant|宿預}}; means "prepared" or "usually prepared") in 405. Then the county was annexed by Xuzhou and renamed Suqian in 762 because the homophone "yu ({{lang|zh|豫}})" as the given name of the Emperor Daizong of Tang was deemed to be ineffable.{{Cite book|script-title=zh:中国历史大辞典·历史地理卷|publisher=Shanghai Cishu Press|year=1996|isbn=7-5326-0299-0|pages=838–839|trans-title=The Great Encyclopaedia of Chinese history, Volume on Historical Geography}} The county was put under the jurisdiction of Huaiyang military prefecture during the Song dynasty, then was transferred to Pizhou after Jurchen's Jin took it. The county was administered by Huai'an military prefecture during 1272–75, but restored as a part of Pizhou afterwards. It was annexed by Xuzhou again in 1733.

The area was rife with banditry during the early years of the Republic of China. In Autumn 1917, six persons were executed as bandits in Suqian. "They cut off their arms, broke their legs, cut off their ears, punched out their eyes, skinned them, then cut off their heads, and finally cut out their hearts."{{cite book|author=John Pollock|title=A Foreign Devil in China|date=December 2010|publisher=World Wide Publications|pages=45–46|isbn=978-1-59328-277-6}} Suqian was put under the jurisdiction of Huaiyin in 1934. The county was converted as a county-level city in 1987, later was elevated to prefecture status in 1996.{{Cite web|url=http://www.suqian.gov.cn/cnsq/lsyg/eng_wztt.shtml|title=Historical Evolution|website=Suqian Official Website}}File:宿迁骆马湖落日 - panoramio.jpg

Suqian possesses the majority of Luoma Lake, which is a major lake in the Huai River basin.

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|Oct high C = 21.6

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|Oct precipitation mm = 41.8

|Nov precipitation mm = 35.2

|Dec precipitation mm = 20.2

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|Feb humidity = 66

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|Jun humidity = 72

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As of the 2020 Chinese census, Suqian had a recorded population of about 4,986,192 whom 1,622,912 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Sucheng and Suyu urban districts.

Local Yanghe along with Maotai and Wuliangye, are the three biggest manufacturers of baijiu.{{Cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/news/business/21699487-sales-baijiu-chinas-national-tipple-are-rebound-proof-positive|title=Proof positive|website=The Economist|language=en|access-date=2018-02-08}} Besides, several domestic companies followed JD.com to site their call centres in Suqian.

G2513 Huai'an–Xuzhou Expressway

Suqian station on the Xuzhou–Yancheng high-speed railway is located in the southern outskirt of Suqian. Another station, Suqian East, is to be built on the Weifang–Suqian high-speed railway, now under construction as part of the second channel of the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway.

Suqian College is the single institution in Suqian providing bachelor's degree education.

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{{see also|List of administrative divisions of Jiangsu}}

The prefecture-level city of Suqian administers 5 county-level divisions, including 3 counties and 2 districts.

These are further divided into 115 township-level divisions, including 111 towns and township, and 4 subdistricts.

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• [http://www.suqian.gov.cn Government Website of Suqian] (in Simplified Chinese)
• [http://suqian.jiangsu.net Suqian comprehensive guide with open directory] (Jiangsu.net)

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