Xiamen Introduction

Xiamen is a coastal sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People’s Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to the north and south respectively.

The subprovincial city of Xiamen administers 6 districts.

Haicang District ,Huli District ,Jimei District ,Siming District ,Tong’an District ,Xiang’an District

Xiamen belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, the weather is mild and pleasant most of the year. The annual temperatures of Xiamen average 21′C and rainfall abounds mainly in the months from May to August. Xiamen winters are mild, requiring only sweaters or light coats in the coldest January. In July the high average temperature is 31 ‘C- 33′C this is the hottest month , January is the coldest the low average temperature is 9′C- 11′C .

History
During the early Jin Dynasty, the place was made Tong’an District in 282, a sub-entity of Jin’an Prefecture . During the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), the city was known as a sustainable international seaport, and the Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031-1095) spent some of his youth there while his father was a local bureaucrat on the government staff. In 1387, the Ming Dynasty used the place as base against pirates, and was part of Quanzhou. Koxinga, stationed here in 1650, named it Siming Island , or “Remembering the Ming”, but the city was renamed by the Manchus in 1680 to Xiamen Subprefecture. The name “Siming” was changed back after the 1912 Xinhai Revolution and the settlement was made a county. Later it reverted to the name Xiamen City. In 1949, Xiamen became a provincial city , then was upgraded to a vice-province-class city , or a municipality. It was made a Special Economic Zone in 1980.

Xiamen was the port of trade first used by Europeans in 1541. It was China’s main port in the nineteenth century for exporting tea. As a result, the Amoy dialect had a major influence on how Chinese terminology was translated into English and other European languages.