The southern Hailin county was taken away to create Taixing in 938, it was administered by Taizhou. It was under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou during the era of Yuan and Ming, but was transferred to Tongzhou later.[4] It was returned to Yangzhou in 1953, and became a county-level city in 1992. It was transferred to Taizhou in 1996.[2]
Administrative divisions
At present, Taixing City has 1 subdistrict, 14 towns and 1 township.[5]
^ ab 江苏市县概况 [A Survey of Cities and Counties in Jiangsu] (in Chinese). pp. 401–5. ISBN978-7-55-373496-5.
^China 2010 Census County-by-county Statistics/《中国2010年人口普查分县资料》.(in Chinese) Accessed 9 July 2014.
^ 中国历史大辞典·历史地理卷 [The Great Encyclopaedia of Chinese history, Volume on Historical Geography] (in Chinese). Shanghai Cishu Press. 1996. p. 722. ISBN7-5326-0299-0.