Yancheng

Yancheng (盐城 Yánchéng) is a prefecture-level city on the east coast of Jiangsu Province.

Understand
Yancheng, whose name literally means "Salt City", was founded in 119 BC named after the salt harvest fields that surround the city.

Get in


By train
You can take a train directly to the center of Yancheng City. There are trains departing from Shanghai and Hangzhou to reach Yancheng.

See

 * Salt marshes
 * Yancheng wetlands

The coast of Yancheng Prefecture is a home to migratory birds, an as such has been listed as a natural world heritage site under the name Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China.