Cangnan County

Cangnan 苍南县
County
Lake in Mount Yucang, Lingshan Pagoda, Huayang Agricultural Sightseeing Park, Lingxi Lake, Yuliao Beach, Jiangbin Park, Pucheng Fortified City, Wufeng Tea Garden, Wanyao Ancient Village, Cangnan New City, Mushroom Rock in Mount Yucang, Fanshan, Xiaguan Fishing Village
Location of Cangnan County in Zhejiang
Coordinates: 27°31′N 120°25′E / 27.517°N 120.417°E / 27.517; 120.417
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Zhejiang
Government
• Type	County
Area
• County	1,261.08 km2 (486.91 sq mi)
• Urban	170.9 km2 (66.0 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• County	1,184,600
• Density	940/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
• Urban	279,000
• Urban density	1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
Demonym	Cangnan People
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	325800
GDP (Nominal)	2015
- Total	CNY 42.50 billion
- Per capita	CNY 35,877 (US$ 5,760)
- Growth	7.89%
- Lingxi (2015)	CNY 12.5 billion
Licence plate prefixes	浙C
Regional variety	Zhenan Min dialect, Wenzhou dialect, Jinxiang dialect
Website	Cangnan China
City tree Camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) City flower Rhododendron Simsii Planch (Rhododendron Simsii Planch)

Cangnan County (simplified Chinese: 苍南县; traditional Chinese: 蒼南縣; pinyin: Cāngnán Xiàn Pronunciation of "Cangnan"^ⓘ) is a county in the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang, China. The county government is in Lingxi. Cangnan has 20 towns, 14 townships, and two nationality townships. Cangnan and Taishun are a part of the Min Dong, Eastern Min cultural region of Zhejiang province. Wenzhou dialect and Jinxiang dialect, are also spoken.

Founded in 1981, Cangnan County is the south gate of Zhejiang Province, the major birthplace of the “Wenzhou Pattern” as well as an open door to the outside world authorised by the State Council. Its total land area is 1,261 square kilometres and its sea area is 3,783 square kilometres. Governing 10 towns, two minority towns and with a registered population of 1.3 million people, it is the most populous county in Zhejiang. In 2014, the county realised a GDP of US$6.3bn and total fiscal revenue of US$658m.

The annual outputs of the packaging-printing and plastic-plating industries are 15 per cent and 20 per cent of national outputs respectively. The annual sales volume of the gift industry is about 10 per cent of China's sales volume, and the area has acquired 14 golden “Guo Zihao” business cards such as “China Printing City”.

Nowadays, Cangnan is implementing the development strategy of “double-sea, double-district”. The construction of the Zhejiang-Taiwan (Cangnan) Economic and Trade Co-operation Zone focuses on: the construction of core platforms, advancing deep industrial connections, promoting comprehensive co-operation and exchange, pushing forward institutional innovation and accelerating the formation of the pattern of “three-cores, three-passageways”. Cangnan is actively engaging in constructing a vigorous ecological, industrial and trading coastal city.