Chongming county currently governs 13 town and 3 townships. Chengqiao Town, where the county government is located, is the political, economic and cultural center of the county. At the end of 2006, the registered population of the county was 699,800, a decrease of 1.408 compared with the previous year, and the floating population was 1. 1.00 million, with a birth rate of 5.93‰, a mortality rate of 8.33‰ and a natural growth rate of -2.4‰. Ethnic groups are mainly Han, and there are other ethnic minorities such as Mongolian, Hui, Manchu, Zhuang, Bai, Yi, Korean, Uygur, Buyi, Hani, Tujia and Tibetan.
history
According to research, about 1000 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, the Yangtze River estuary was in Yangzhou and Zhenjiang. At that time, Kumensha Island was just two small sandbanks in the river, called Dongsha and Xisha, with a small area of about tens of square kilometers. The ancestors of the island moved in from nearby Danyang and Jurong in Jiangsu Province to make a living by fishing. In the first year of Shenlong in the Tang Dynasty (705), Chongming Town was established in Xisha, which was probably the earliest appearance of the word "Chongming". Since then, Chongming Island has been going down the river, rising and falling. In the Song Dynasty, Yao quicksand was exposed in the northwest of Xisha, and three sands were accumulated in the northeast, while the original Dongsha and Xisha were gradually eroded by collapse. Next, the fate of Sansha, like Dongsha and Xisha, was gradually washed away, and the old one was replaced by the new one, under which sandbars such as Majiabang, Pingyangsha and Changsha were formed, among which Changsha was the predecessor of Chongming Island.
In the long river of history, many sand islands were tilted to the north or washed away in turn, but Chongming Island is at its peak today. Chongming Island is also unstable, even its county has moved again and again. In the 11th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1583), Chongming County had moved five times. During Guangxu period of Qing dynasty (1875~ 1908), the south bank of Changsha silted up rapidly. Later, the local people built stone ponds and dams, which stopped the siltation and kept the county town stable.
Chongming people have a glorious revolutionary tradition. In the Ming Dynasty's anti-Japanese struggle, Chongming's "sand soldiers" were famous for their bravery. 192 1 autumn, farmers rioted in Xisha and Chongming. Mao Zedong introduced this feat in Guide Weekly, the central organ newspaper of China at that time. 1in September, 926, Lu Tieqiang and Yu Fucai, special commissioners of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial Committees, returned to Chongchong and established an earlier rural grass-roots party organization in China. During the long years of revolutionary struggle, many sons and daughters of Chongming gave their precious lives for the revolutionary cause of the people of China.
Chongming Island also has a beautiful ancient name: "Yingzhou in the East China Sea". According to legend, in the ancient East China Sea, there was a place called Yingzhou, where immortals lived, but this fairy island has not been stabilized and has been erratic. Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi sent people to the East China Sea to look around, but they didn't find it. Later, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty gave Chongming Island the word "Yingzhou in the East China Sea". Since then, Chongming Island has gained the reputation of ancient Yingzhou. Created by Liu Hongping.