What is the name of Jianggan District in Hangzhou now?

Jianggan District of Hangzhou is now called Shangcheng District and Qiantang District.

In 20021year, Hangzhou optimized and adjusted its administrative divisions, taking the administrative areas of the former Shangcheng District and Jianggan District (excluding Xiasha Street and Baiyang Street) as the administrative areas of the new Shangcheng District, and establishing Qiantang District in some areas of Xiasha Street, Baiyang Street and Xiaoshan District in the former Jianggan District.

Geological characteristics of Jianggan district in Hangzhou;

The terrain is high in the south and north, and low in the middle and east. Before the Han Dynasty (206 BC), this area was still a beach shelf, but after the impact of sediment, after the seawall was built in the Tang and Five Dynasties, Tian Chou gradually appeared and formed a plain.

Jianggan District belongs to the balanced plain of Qiantang River with flat terrain. The natural elevation of the ground is 5.2-6.2m (elevation of the Yellow Sea), and silt and fine sand are within 5. 14m below the surface. The bearing capacity of the foundation is 100- 120kpa, which can be used as the bearing layer of natural foundation and shallow Toona sinensis foundation of industrial and civil buildings. Simple structure, good crustal stability and no geological disasters such as earthquakes.